After graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute with a BFA in Sculpture, Ellen Fullman began developing “The Long String Instrument” in her St. Paul, Minnesota, studio in 1980 and moved to Brooklyn the following year. Inspired by composer and instrument builder Harry Partch and Alvin Lucier's “Music on a Long Thin Wire,” Fullman's large-scale work creates drone, organ-like overtones that are as unique in the world of sound as her vision of the instrument itself. Through her research in just intonation tuning theory, string harmonics, and musical instrument design, Fullman has developed a compositional and performative approach that expands harmonic motion through a focus on upper partial tones. She has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has resonated architectural spaces in festivals across the world including Festival d'Automne, Bourse de Commerce, Paris; The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles; Musica Festival, Strasbourg; Tectonics Festival Athens; and The Sydney Festival.
Tickets are CHF 15-35.

Website
kaserne-basel.ch/en/events/ellenfullman

Where
Rossstall, Kaserne Basel
Klybeckstrasse 1b
4057 Basel

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