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August 13, 2017
December 4, 2016
June 17, 2016
Ellen Fullman & the Long String Instrument ~ Happy birthday
February 3, 2014
Berkeley Art Museum articles
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Exhibitions:
BAMscape at the Berkeley Art Museum
Barry McGee @ the BAM/Introduction
Barbara Chase-Riboud - The Malcolm X Steles
Barry McGee @ the BAM/The Exhibition
Barry McGee @ the BAM/The Reception
Barry McGee/BAM review by Artforum
Events:
Chez Panisse 40th Anniversary Pt 1
Chez Panisse 40th Anniversary Pt 2
The Possible
Performances:
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September 15, 2013
Ellen Fullman @ the BAM L@TE series
photo by Styrous®
A couple of days ago I had the pleasure of hearing, seeing and photographing Berkeley based, Ellen Fullman, during the Berkeley Art Museum's L@TE series presentation. Her performance was as riveting and visually dazzling as ever. Once again, she constructed her Long String Instrument (an instrument tuned in just intonation and played with rosin-coated fingers) to fit the space, however, this time it was even longer than when I saw her in concert in 2009 (see link below), also at one of the BAM L@TE series presentations.
(click on any image for slideshow)
photo by Styrous®
another view of the tail anchor end of the Long String (light shining on the strings)
photo by Styrous®
photo by Styrous®
Performing with Ms. Fullman on the Long-String in the first work of the program, Study for "Mary 1 and Mary 2", (first movement of Dyad, a work in 13 movements) was Ryan P. Jobes. It was a brilliant exploration of acoustic/electronic transcendental meditation.
Jobes then performed on a mechanically played electric guitar, invented by Konrad Sprenger (aka Jörg Hiller), with Ms. Fullman on the second work which was untitled. This piece ratcheted the evening up a notch very nicely.
Luciano Chessa (on Đàn bầu) and Theresa Wong (playing the Expendable Cello with Gramophone/Integrated Empathetic Bridge invented by Sung Kim) performed with Fullman in the third work, Trio Improvisation.
Jobes then performed on a mechanically played electric guitar, invented by Konrad Sprenger (aka Jörg Hiller), with Ms. Fullman on the second work which was untitled. This piece ratcheted the evening up a notch very nicely.
Luciano Chessa (on Đàn bầu) and Theresa Wong (playing the Expendable Cello with Gramophone/Integrated Empathetic Bridge invented by Sung Kim) performed with Fullman in the third work, Trio Improvisation.
Gramophone/Integrated Empathetic Bridge
photo by Styrous®
Ms. Wong performed with Ms. Fullman in the concert I saw in 2009 at the BAM (she used a regular cello that time).
photo by Styrous®
the performance
all photos by Styrous®
Ellen Fullman
Ryan P. Jobes
Ellen Fullman and Ryan P. Jobes
Ellen Fullman and Ryan P. Jobes
Ryan P. Jobes
Ellen Fullman
Ellen Fullman, Theresa Wong and Luciano Chessa (on Đàn bầu)
Ellen Fullman, Theresa Wong and Luciano Chessa (on Đàn bầu)
Ellen Fullman
Ellen Fullman, Theresa Wong and Luciano Chessa (on Đàn bầu)
the bows
Theresa Wong, Ellen Fullman and Luciano Chessa
all photos by Styrous®
Links:
Theresa Wong discography
Konrad Sprenger discography
Luciano Chessa discography
Ryan P. Jobes discography
Ellen Fullman performs with Konrad Sprenger on Pandora
Konrad Sprenger discography
Luciano Chessa discography
Ryan P. Jobes discography
Ellen Fullman performs with Konrad Sprenger on Pandora
Ellen Fullman performances, talks and interviews can be seen on Vimeo and YouTube
Theresa Wong performances can be seen on YouTube
Konrad Sprenger performances/music can be seen on YouTube
Luciano Chessa videos can be seen on YouTube
Ryan P. Jobes can be seen on YouTube and heard on SoundCloud
The Jobes/Siler Ensemble can be seen on YouTube
Viewfinder article: Ellen Fullman 2009 concert @ the BAM/PFA
Theresa Wong performances can be seen on YouTube
Konrad Sprenger performances/music can be seen on YouTube
Luciano Chessa videos can be seen on YouTube
Ryan P. Jobes can be seen on YouTube and heard on SoundCloud
The Jobes/Siler Ensemble can be seen on YouTube
Viewfinder article: Ellen Fullman 2009 concert @ the BAM/PFA
What an exciting evening of
acoustic exploration
acoustic exploration
and visual stimulation!
Styrous® ~ September 14, 2013
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July 25, 2012
Music Notes
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Articles:
Articles:
The Beatles & the Grateful Dead
Birth of the 33 1/3 RPM LP ~ June 18, 1948
Electric Light Orchestra ~ The Big Night Tour, 1987
Chickens on Wood String Band ~ MOOvin' 'n GROOvin'
Patsy Cline ~ Still Walkin' After Midnight!
Fats Domino ~ 1987 Lifetime Achievement Award
Everyone Is Dirty aka Lee Malone
The Fibonacci, Steinway & Sons 600,000th Piano ~ 2015
Garden of Memory 2013
GroWiser @ the Farmer's Market in Old Oakland
Hawkwind ~ Dave Brock, Lemmy & space rock
Hearst Greek Theater performances
Anna-Maria Hefele ~ Over-tone singer extraordinare
The Hour Glass & The Power of Love ~ Allman Brothers
Happy Birthday, Kay Kyser
Happy birthday, Liberace, King of Bling
Goodbye, Little Richard!
Jerzy Maksymiuk & Józef Skrzek ~ The War of the Worlds
Birth of the 33 1/3 RPM LP ~ June 18, 1948
Electric Light Orchestra ~ The Big Night Tour, 1987
Chickens on Wood String Band ~ MOOvin' 'n GROOvin'
Patsy Cline ~ Still Walkin' After Midnight!
Fats Domino ~ 1987 Lifetime Achievement Award
Everyone Is Dirty aka Lee Malone
The Fibonacci, Steinway & Sons 600,000th Piano ~ 2015
Garden of Memory 2013
GroWiser @ the Farmer's Market in Old Oakland
Hawkwind ~ Dave Brock, Lemmy & space rock
Hearst Greek Theater performances
Anna-Maria Hefele ~ Over-tone singer extraordinare
The Hour Glass & The Power of Love ~ Allman Brothers
Happy Birthday, Kay Kyser
Happy birthday, Liberace, King of Bling
Goodbye, Little Richard!
Jerzy Maksymiuk & Józef Skrzek ~ The War of the Worlds
Modest Mussorgsky ~ Pictures at an Exhibition
My Dulcimer
The Nails ~ 88 Lines About 44 Women
overtone singing
Phonography (ήχο γραφής) ~ What is it?
Doc Pomus ~ Doo-Wop Wonder
Prince ~ June 7, 1958 - April 21, 2016
My Dulcimer
The Nails ~ 88 Lines About 44 Women
overtone singing
Phonography (ήχο γραφής) ~ What is it?
Doc Pomus ~ Doo-Wop Wonder
Prince ~ June 7, 1958 - April 21, 2016
Record Producers Extraordinaire
Record Store Day ~ April 19, 2014
Record Store Day ~ April 18, 2015
(We're gonna) Rock Around the Clock
Rhythmix ~ Wine, Women & Song: 7th Anniversary celebration
San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra @ the Mission Delores
Gunther Schuller & Third Stream jazz
Record Store Day ~ April 19, 2014
Record Store Day ~ April 18, 2015
(We're gonna) Rock Around the Clock
Rhythmix ~ Wine, Women & Song: 7th Anniversary celebration
San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra @ the Mission Delores
Gunther Schuller & Third Stream jazz
Mary Stallings, Gianni Versace & Junior High School
Kay Starr ~ A shimmering light
Stereogram ~ Sonic & Visual 3D
Kay Starr ~ A shimmering light
Stereogram ~ Sonic & Visual 3D
Stickey Fingers Fifty-Five Years Zippered
Sweets Ballroom ~ Jitterbugging in the Forties
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & the Nut Rocker
Tower Records ~ All Things Must Pass: a blast from the past
USA For Africa ~ We Are The World on the radio
Visual Concert
Hank Williams, Sr. ~ Move It on Over
Sweets Ballroom ~ Jitterbugging in the Forties
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & the Nut Rocker
Tower Records ~ All Things Must Pass: a blast from the past
USA For Africa ~ We Are The World on the radio
Visual Concert
Hank Williams, Sr. ~ Move It on Over
August 17, 2011
New York Times photo by Styrous®
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December 9, 2009
Ellen Fullman concert @ the BAM/PFA
Last week I had the pleasure of experiencing and photographing the performance of "Compositions for the Long String Instrument" by Ellen Fullman at the Berkeley Art Museum.
The Long String Instrument
is an installation of dozens of wires fifty feet or more in length,
tuned in "Just Intonation" and bowed with rosin-coated fingers. Fullman
began developing the instrument in 1981. She has also developed a unique
notation system to choreograph the performer's movements, exploring
sonic events that occur at specific nodal point locations along the
string-length of the instrument. The sonic results are amazing.
photo by Styrous®
photo by Styrous®
The
performance began in darkness with only her hands lit with small video
cameras mounted on each hand. The images from the cameras were then
projected on the walls of the museum.
photo by Styrous®
photo by Styrous®
The
long, sensuous drones produced by the instrument were trance inducing,
nicely accommodating the blanket & bean bag fitted audience.
When the first piece was finished, she was joined by Emily Packard on violin & Theresa Wong on cello. A trio par excellence.
Fullman was joined in the next selection by Gretchen Jude and Dave Douglas.
Attending the performance was dancer Anna Halprin whose dance troupe performed "Parades and Changes," in celebration of the inaugural opening of the Berkeley Art Museum in November 1970, almost forty years ago.
Anna Halprin's "Parades and Changes"
The event was breath-taking!!!!
Ellen Fullman has collaborated with such notables as Pauline Oliveros and The Kronos Quartet. She has performed in venues and festivals in Europe, Japan, and the Americas including: Instal, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Other Minds, the Walker Art Center, The Whitney Museum and Donaueschinger Musiktage. She has an extensive discography.
Viewfinder links:
Ellen Fullman articles
Net links:
Ellen Fullman website
Ellen Fullman discography.
Viewfinder links:
Ellen Fullman articles
Net links:
Ellen Fullman website
Ellen Fullman discography.
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