For three decades, Ellen Fullman has been developing and playing her Long String Instrument that stretches seventy-feet. She's performing at the Berkeley Art Museum this coming Friday evening. Tomorrow afternoon (Thursday), she'll also be there to discuss the Long String Instrument and demonstrate how it's played. The video above is from her 2009 performance at BAM. Dig that drone… From Fullman's site:
In 1981 Ellen Fullman began developing the "Long String Instrument," an installation of dozens of wires fifty feet or more in length, tuned in Just Intonation and 'bowed' with rosin coated fingers. Fullman has developed a unique notation system to choreograph the performer's movements, exploring sonic events that occur at specific nodal point locations along the string-length of the instrument.
Ellen Fullman: Tracings (BAM/PFA)
