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Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show // Elemental View CD

Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show // Elemental View CD

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アメリカの実験音楽家Ellen Fullmanが、2025年10月にオーストラリア・ブリスベンの音響作家Lawrence English主宰レーベルRoom40からリリースしたCDです。

彼女の自作楽器Long String Instrumentを用いたドローン6曲を収録。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Room40 releases available at Tobira.

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CD in matte laminate embossed cardstock sleeve. 

Tracklist:

1. Sustained Surface | Distant View 08:40
2. Dream Branch | Intimate Glint 08:11
3. Environmental Memory 04:19
4. Concentrated Merry-Go-Round 02:37
5. Surface Narrative in Four Parts 09:13
6. Radio Coda 03:30

Room40:

"“Elemental View” is a work in six movements by pioneering composer Ellen Fullman for her Long String Instrument and The Living Earth Show. The expansive installation inhabits an industrial sized space with 136 strings, precisely tuned and configured for this multi-movement piece. Listening to the music of Fullman’s singular creation is akin to standing inside a giant musical instrument. The result is a music at once ancient and utterly new, environmental, and folk-like yet orchestral; immersing the listener in a transportive glistening atmosphere.

“Elemental View” invites the listener to discover, as if with a magnifying glass, the details of the physics of string vibration itself. Fullman bows the instrument lengthwise with her fingertips while walking, playing multiple strings at once. As she walks, upper partial tones unfold at different rates, in proportion to differences in string length, imparting an undulating wave of continually shifting overtones. The notation for the Long String Instrument contains both temporal indications and spatial choreography, as specific harmonies emerge at distinct locations along the string length.

Invention and discovery are at the core of Fullman’s work. To produce percussive sounds on the otherwise drone-based instrument, Fullman designed and fabricated the box bow, shovelette, and shoveler, which play three, six, or nine strings at once. Varying techniques with these tools produce either open ringing tones or closed dampened ones. With their laser focused precision and virtuosic ensemble playing, The Living Earth Show brilliantly executes the rhythmic and harmonic complexity of Fullman’s composition.

In the movements “Environmental Memory” and “Concentrated Merry-Go-Round”, Fullman incorporates Travis Andrew’s primary instrument, the guitar. Andy Meyerson and Fullman accompany the guitar in duo playing box bow and shoveler. For “Surface Narrative in Four Parts”, Meyerson also applies his percussion mastery to the santur, a Persian hammered dulcimer. The santur’s unique tuning is derived from the extended microtonal partials of the sequence played by Fullman on The Long String Instrument. "

Artist : Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show

Label : Room40

cat no : RM4247

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アメリカの実験音楽家Ellen Fullmanが、2025年10月にオーストラリア・ブリスベンの音響作家Lawrence English主宰レーベルRoom40からリリースしたCDです。

彼女の自作楽器Long String Instrumentを用いたドローン6曲を収録。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Room40 releases available at Tobira.

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CD in matte laminate embossed cardstock sleeve. 

Tracklist:

1. Sustained Surface | Distant View 08:40
2. Dream Branch | Intimate Glint 08:11
3. Environmental Memory 04:19
4. Concentrated Merry-Go-Round 02:37
5. Surface Narrative in Four Parts 09:13
6. Radio Coda 03:30

Room40:

"“Elemental View” is a work in six movements by pioneering composer Ellen Fullman for her Long String Instrument and The Living Earth Show. The expansive installation inhabits an industrial sized space with 136 strings, precisely tuned and configured for this multi-movement piece. Listening to the music of Fullman’s singular creation is akin to standing inside a giant musical instrument. The result is a music at once ancient and utterly new, environmental, and folk-like yet orchestral; immersing the listener in a transportive glistening atmosphere.

“Elemental View” invites the listener to discover, as if with a magnifying glass, the details of the physics of string vibration itself. Fullman bows the instrument lengthwise with her fingertips while walking, playing multiple strings at once. As she walks, upper partial tones unfold at different rates, in proportion to differences in string length, imparting an undulating wave of continually shifting overtones. The notation for the Long String Instrument contains both temporal indications and spatial choreography, as specific harmonies emerge at distinct locations along the string length.

Invention and discovery are at the core of Fullman’s work. To produce percussive sounds on the otherwise drone-based instrument, Fullman designed and fabricated the box bow, shovelette, and shoveler, which play three, six, or nine strings at once. Varying techniques with these tools produce either open ringing tones or closed dampened ones. With their laser focused precision and virtuosic ensemble playing, The Living Earth Show brilliantly executes the rhythmic and harmonic complexity of Fullman’s composition.

In the movements “Environmental Memory” and “Concentrated Merry-Go-Round”, Fullman incorporates Travis Andrew’s primary instrument, the guitar. Andy Meyerson and Fullman accompany the guitar in duo playing box bow and shoveler. For “Surface Narrative in Four Parts”, Meyerson also applies his percussion mastery to the santur, a Persian hammered dulcimer. The santur’s unique tuning is derived from the extended microtonal partials of the sequence played by Fullman on The Long String Instrument. "

Artist : Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show

Label : Room40

cat no : RM4247