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FULLMAN, ELLEN & SEAN MEEHAN - same

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Cut Records cut022 Release Year: 2007 Note: live in Berkeley Easter 2006 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Wieder sehr schöne Aufnahmen von ELLEN FULLMAN und ihren urlangen aufgespannten Drähten, hier in Zusammenarbeit mit SEAN MEEHAN der Snare-Drums mit Becken bespielt und dadurch zusätzliche Vibrationen erzeugt.... endlose Schwingungen, erhaben und sonor, sehr "nah" und obertonreich, 3 Stücke die verschiedene Stimmungen erzeugen sind hier enthalten... "Longtime friends who had hoped to play together for some time, Fullman and Meehan were surprised by the initial efforts of their collaboration. Their instruments--or rather the sounds of their instruments meeting in the acoustic space--strongly influenced one another: combination tones, sympathetic resonances, beating, and even cancellation of each other's sound. Mapping routes through this unusual territory would become the piece presented here in three parts. The recording was made Easter (R.C.) weekend 2006. It is an acoustic work, recorded in stereo, without overdubbing or effects. Ellen Fullman's long string instrument is a unique instrument of her own invention. Waist high, parallel wires, strung in two sets span 14 meters. Fullman produces rich, microtonal drones by pacing up and down the wires and applying friction with her fingertips. Each of her ten fingers precisely finds the appropriate string and the sound emanates from wooden box resonators bolted into the wall. At her studio where this CD was recorded, the strings run through the patio door and terminate in the backyard: the extra length affords me an additional lower octave, Fullman explains. For the last ten years or so, Sean Meehan has been focusing on playing the snare drum with cymbals. On this recording he produces long, continuous tones from them using a dowel and friction. This work was premiered at the Instal Festival, Scotland.'" [label info] "....Fullman plays long string instruments, up to 20 metres. Here however they are a bit shorter, 14 metres, which she plays with her fingers. The high and low pitched, long sustaining sounds form a nice floating mass of sounds. Here she plays an all improvised duet with Sean Meehan, who plays the snare drum with cymbals, and on this recording he plays it with a dowel and a friction. The three lengthy pieces here are covered with overtones, slowly humming and reverberating (all in a natural manner of course, as this is an all acoustic recording with no electronics). It's entirely unclear how Meehan gets his instrument to resonate in such a similar beautiful manner, but once floating away, I don't think I really care how. Along the lines of Paul Panhuysen's long string installations of the mid eighties, this is a true beauty. Here too one could argue nothing much changed over the years, but since it's been so long since we last heard from Fullman that we can forgive her. Great CD." [Fdw / Vital Weekly] http://cut.fm