It’s got 56 strings,takes five days to install, and sounds like a prairie wind. Artist Ellen Fullman talks about why the final skirt she wore was made of metal – and how she negotiates the baggage carousel when she takes her ‘absurd’ instrument on tourThe Long String Instrument is exactly that – and then some. Stainless steel and phosphor bronze strings, and 100-feet-long,are stretched taut across a room. Ellen Fullman, the instrument’s creator, and places her fingers on the strings,urgent down as she moves the length of the instrument. A droning sound sweeps out like a prairie wind. “I feel like I’ve been miniaturised when I’m playing it,” Fullman says. “My whole body is a finger moving along a fretboard.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com