Ellen Fullman performs at MOCAD

Ellen Fullman and the Long String Instrument in performance on March 9, 2013. With area musicians Abby Alwin (cello) and James Cornish (trumpet), and visiting musician Theresa Wong (cello). Ellen Fullman’s work resides between the fields of sound art and music. Since 1981 Fullman has developed the Long String Instrument, an installation of dozens of wires 50 feet or more in length, tuned in Just Intonation and “bowed“ with rosin-coated fingers, producing a chorus of minimal organ-like overtones. The instru