NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Ellen Fullman on 10 May 2023. Ellen Fullman has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 17 episodes and was first played on 27 March 2016.

Ellen Fullman (born 1957) is a composer known principally for music she has written for an instrument she invented, the long string instrument. Fullman studied sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute. She has performed with the Deep Listening Band and Paul Panhuysen.

Tuned in just intonation, the long string instrument is played by walking along the length of incredibly long strings and rubbing them with rosined hands. This…