Ellen Fullman with Theresa Wong - Long String Instrument (Liquid Architecture)

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dozens of highly tensioned metallic strings spanning up to thirty metres in length are brushed with rosin-coated fingers.

FRI 27 Jan 2017
The Substation, Melbourne

Liquid Architecture and The SUBSTATION, in association with Room 40, presented for the first time in Australia, iconic American experimental musician, ELLEN FULLMAN.

Ellen Fullman is the creator of the Long String Instrument, in which dozens of highly tensioned metallic strings spanning up to thirty metres in length are brushed with rosin-coated fingers. When played, this stunning and unique instrument produces a chorus of minimal, organ-like overtones. The experience for an audience has been described as akin to standing inside an enormous grand piano.

In Melbourne, Fullman collaborated with acclaimed composer and cellist Theresa Wong. Together they layer the harmonic possibilities of the cello within the bed of undulating overtones of the Long String Instrument. Fullman and Wong call their duet 'Harbors', drawing from soundscapes, stories and atmospheres that manifest around bodies of water that propagate exchange.

“Evokes ghosts of renegade string sections and Ennio Morricone’s harmonica motifs. The increasingly colorful mélange of wavering notes and their errant reflections sound like the thrum of vibrant light.” Sam Lefebvre, Impose Magazine.

Video by Jason Heller
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Liquid Architecture is an Australian organisation for artists working with sound. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.