Early this year, I attended a cutting-edge music performance and workshop at the celebrated venue Roulette, in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, during which the ghosts of Memphis were very present.

Like most people these days, sound artist Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place. But she has an unusual roommate: a massive installation she calls the Long String Instrument. Filling the ground floor ...

When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The instrument is 60 feet long and features 44 bronze strings stretched between two wooden resonators. To play, Talambas ...

Ellen Fullman is not just a composer. She’s also a performer, installation artist, choreographer, instrument-maker, and music theorist. Lest that list sound too academic, let me add that the ...

About 30 years ago in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, there were 20 strings, 50 feet in length, slowly humming a composition by Ellen Fullman — she thinks. There might have been more strings; probably not ...

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