Ellen Fullman
Konrad Sprenger has been collaborating with Composer, Performer and instrument builder Ellen Fullman since 2001. He was introduced to her through composer Arnold Dreyblatt. Sprenger produced and performed on their collaboration LP/CD "Ort" which was released by his Choose label in 2004 and which received international acclaim. He continues to perform and produce with Ellen Fullman, both in Europe and in the United States.
Concerts:
2005 (k-raa-k)3 Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Gent; Theatre Arsenic, Lausanne; Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
2010 Artefact Festival STUK arts centre,Leuven Belgium
2013Performance collaboration with Konrad Sprenger (a.k.a. Jörg Hiller)Yale Union, Portland, Oregon
2013 Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
2014 Arnolfini, Bristol
Recordings:
2003 Ellen Fullman & Konrad Sprenger “Ort” LP/CD, choose, Berlin
In 1981 Ellen Fullman began developing the “Long String Instrument,” an installation of dozens of wires fifty feet or more in length, tuned in Just Intonation and ‘bowed’ with rosin coated fingers. Fullman has 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. She has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has collaborated with such luminary figures as composer Pauline Oliveros, Berlin-based composer and performer Konrad Sprenger, choreographer Deborah Hay, the Kronos Quartet, and Keiji Haino. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, commissions and residencies including: DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program residency, Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission/NEA Fellowship for Japan, Meet the Composer, Reader's Digest Consortium Commission, Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, and artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Her music was represented in The American Century; Art and Culture, 1950-2000 at The Whitney Museum, and 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 and Donaueschinger Musiktage. Her release “Ort”, with collaborator Konrad Sprenger, was selected in the top 50 recordings of 2004 by The Wire (London) and “Fluctuations” with trombonist Monique Buzzarté on Deep Listening was included in the Wire top 50 of 2008.

Picture by John Fago