Search - Ellen Fullman :: Through Glass Windows

Ellen Fullmans s first proper full-length for Important
Records follows her collaborative work with Barn Owl
and a split LP with Eleh. She was also featured on
The Harmonic Series: A Collection of Works In Just
Intonation (IMPREC272).
In 1981 Ellen Fullman began developing the Long
Stringed Instrument, an installation of dozens of wires
50 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. She has recorded
extensively with this unusual instrument and has
collaborated with such luminary figures as composer
Pauline Oliveros, choreographer Deborah Hay, the Kronos
Quartet, and Keiji Haino. She has been the recipient of
numerous awards, commissions, and residencies.
Never Gets Out Of Me, a duet with cellist Theresa
Wong, and Flowers, a trio recorded with Travis Weller
and Henna Cho, are adaptations from Stratified Bands:
Last Kind Words, originally composed for the Kronos
Quartet in the Other Minds Festival. The composition is
based on Last Kind Words Blues, a haunting song by
Geeshie Wiley recorded in 1930.