© John Fago
opening night Artefact festival 2010
Ellen Fullman's work resides between the fields of sound art and music. Her
primary activity has been the development of the Long String Instrument, in
which her rosin-coated fingers brush across dozens of metallic strings,
producing a chorus of minimal organ-like overtones which has been compared
to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano. At STUK the
strings will be more than 18 metres long. Fullman will be joined by the
incredible Konrad Sprenger to perform with her.
Biba Kopf, in The Wire, wrote of the Long String Instrument:
“Listening to it, you feel like you are inside some cyclopean
subterranean grotto… its bejewelled walls glistening with an alien lustre
(and) sounding like something that shimmers, iridescent shapes bend
conventional pulse-based time and impose their own paradoxical temporality,
where constant movement teems within a vast stasis.”
Long String Instrument performance
Ellen Fullman | Konrad Sprenger
- Tu 09 Feb
€8
STUK Labozaal - 21:00