Discography

Change of Direction. New Albion NA 102 CD, 1999.

Reviews: Change of Direction

The music breathes and swells, sweeping the listener along within it... Fullman ultimately channels an entire orchestra through the Long String Instrument, conjuring up the ghosts of breathy didgeridoo, delicate mandolin, elusive Japanese koto, and more. Fifty five minutes flies. This is one of the most marvelous discoveries I have made all summer.
-Hilary Robinson, Motion Music, 1999

The quality of the sound has an endless character, approaching infinity. This is an example of new music... at its most singular and honest perspective. The eerie melodies and funky blues evolve at a walking cadence to elicit the midnight train whistles and squeaky swing sets of the dreamworld in the middle of America.
-New Albion press sheet

"TexasTravelTexture". Suspended Music, Deep Listening Band & the Long String Instrument. Periplum P0010, 1997.

Review: Suspended Music
Allow plenty of uninterrupted time to experience this music, and it will get deep into your body and your soul.
-Sarah Cahill, the Express, 1997

Body Music. XI 109, 1997.

Reviews: Body Music

...The epic-scale "Work for 4" and "Body Music" are 'ragas' of the post-industrial age, imbued with corrosive grace and savage elegance...
-Piero Scaruffi, Ide magazine, 1993

Five more astonishing compositions on long string sculpture-instruments, including the marvelously flowing "Work for 4," performed on a 145-foot-long string installation, already a modern classic. "Space Between" surprisingly produces some sounds normally associated with electronic music, and "Body Music" suggests a kind of celestial Delta-blues...
-"Blue" Jean Tyranny, All Music Guide, 2nd Edition

Having developed and refined techniques of composition for the instrument, she can draw paradoxical beauty from it. The pieces sound simple and complex at the same time... Overtones are abundant-in the foreground they form soaring lines, in the background they constitute rich timbres that hover and pulsate in the air. These may range from a sonorous ring to delicate harmonium-like chords.
-Experimental Musical Instuments, 1993

Compilations:

"Transmission Particle 1", improvisation with oboist Eliza Slavet. Zeitenwechsel: 35 Jahre Berliner Künstlerprogramm, DAAD, ed. RZ, Parallèle 20002, 2001.

Review, Zeitenwechsel: 35 Jahre Berliner Künstlerprogramm
By far the most satisfying piece here is Elllen Fullman's (and Eliza Slavet's) Transmission Particle I...The richness of the sounds (Fullman's instrument) produces allows notes and chords to roll into each other almost imperceptibly, while Slavet's skillfully controlled multiphonics bob in and out of the texture. The music is placid, but it floats forwards, sometimes recalling an ethereal soundworld of Renaissance viols and coronets.
-Tom Perchard, The Wire, 2002

"Tangible Limits; Water's Edge". Frau Musica (nova) Festival für neue Musik. Frau Musica 001, 1999.

"Change of Direction, a condensed excerpt". A Storm of Drones. Asphodel 0966, 1995.

"Staggered Stasis". The Aerial #3. What Next? AER 1991/3, 1991 (out of print)

Review: Staggered Stasis on The Arial
Rich acoustic waves of sound from Fullman's original invention, The Long String Instrument. Floating harmonics and ancient Pythagorean intervals.
-Blue Gene Tyranny, All Music Guide, 2nd Edition