[NewMusicEvents] ELLEN FULLMAN: Video and Lecture

[Steed Cowart]

The Mills College Music Department and Songlines Series present:

ELLEN FULLMAN: Video and Lecture

Monday, Apr. 14th
7:30 pm
Ensemble Room, Music Building

Admission: FREE

The composer/creator/player of the Long String Instrument screens "Event
Locations No. 1," a 28 minute long composition for video. Using
miniature B&W wireless cameras strapped to each of her wrists, the video
focuses on the contact of her fingers with the strings showing the
relationship of articulations to the resulting sounds produced. Ms.
Fullman will also discuss the complexities of overtone production in her
music in reference to Henry Cowell's landmark book, "New Musical
Resources." Ellen Fullman has performed all over the world with her Long
String Instrument. She has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, the
Deep Listening Band, and cellist Frances-Marie Uitti among others. She
has receive numerous awards for her work including a Reader's Digest
Consortium Commission and an NEA New Forms grant. Her recorded work has
been released on Apollo Records, New Albion, XI, and Periplum.


for more information contact:
John Bischoff, Music Department
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613
510-430-2331

Mills College is located off 580 freeway in Oakland. Take
the MacArthur Blvd. exit (just after High St.), turn right at
the bottom of the exit, and enter the college immediately on
your left through the College gates.

http://music.mills.edu/events