Music
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
septembersept 25

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1h

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Ellen Fullman, Konrad Sprenger, Kontaktmikrofone 1, for Long String Instrument and electronics (2025). World premiere.

Ellen Fullman Long String Instrument
Konrad Sprenger Live processing

Presented in co-production by the Pinault Collection and the Festival d’Automne à Paris.

For many years, Ellen Fullman has been walking between long, tuned strings, rubbing her resin-coated fingers along them to bow-like effect. The intensity of this contact with her hands enables her to feel their minutest vibrations and to summon up an infinite range of notes from within the realms of sound. In collaboration with the strings of the JACK Quartet and the electronic music of Konrad Sprenger, this unique instrument also forms part of the installation.

With Kontaktmikrofone 1, for the first time the sound from individual strings of Fullman's instrument have been isolated through placing contact pickups on the tuning capos. Sprenger states, "My processing system gives me the possibility to discover almost every aspect of the sound produced by the excitation of the string–as if scientifically under a magnifying glass. I can control such parameters as the speed and time, length of the attack, the intensity, pitch, spatialized through a multichannel sound system."

See also

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
septembersept 25

JACK Quartet, Ellen Fullman, Konrad Sprenger
Music Portrait

For many years, Ellen Fullman has been walking between long, tuned strings, rubbing her resin-coated fingers along them to bow-like effect. The intensity of this contact with her hands enables her to feel their minutest vibrations and to summon up an infinite range of notes from within the realms of sound. In collaboration with the strings of the JACK Quartet and the electronic music of Konrad Sprenger, this unique instrument also forms part of the installation.

In the same place

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
septembersept 25

JACK Quartet, Ellen Fullman, Konrad Sprenger
Music Portrait

For many years, Ellen Fullman has been walking between long, tuned strings, rubbing her resin-coated fingers along them to bow-like effect. The intensity of this contact with her hands enables her to feel their minutest vibrations and to summon up an infinite range of notes from within the realms of sound. In collaboration with the strings of the JACK Quartet and the electronic music of Konrad Sprenger, this unique instrument also forms part of the installation.