The Long String Instrument

November 18, 2005
Music

About the Program

Imagine a musical instrument with one hundred wires strung over fifty feet. This is the extraordinary Long String Instrument (LSI), developed over twenty years by internationally acclaimed composer-performer Ellen Fullman. For this marquee event in Western Front's "String Theory" series, Fullman performed a selection of mesmerizing works on this unparalleled instrument. She was joined by master improviser-composer Brett Larner and an ensemble of seven guitarists plucking, fretting, bowing and hammering steel strings for Larner's hauntingly delicate composition "m-7/21-1."

Artist

Ellen Fullman, Brett Larner

Identifier

2005.1118 WES

Part of the series

LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2005

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

Western Front
303 E. 8th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1S1
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations

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