Wall-to-Wall Music: Performing on a Grand Scale

Ellen Fullman introduced audiences in the Lewis Arts complex’s CoLab Gallery to the Long String Instrument, an installation she created 30 years ago, during a November campus performance and workshop residency. The installation consists of dozens of metallic wires stretched across the performance space; the sound is created as Fullman walks along the wires pressing her fingers on the strings. Fullman, a Berkeley, Calif.-based artist, and cellist Theresa Wong premiered works by several Princeton graduate students.

Bora Yoon, a Ph.D. student in music composition, organized Fullman’s visit “to illuminate the nexus of engineering, instrument design, music performance, architecture, physics of sound, and math.” For a video, go to https://vimeo.com/305594655.