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Monique Buzzarté and Ellen Fullman began working together in June 2005. These collaborative compositions are rooted in tonalities that unfold with unexpected possibilities. Buzzarté s trombone navigates and merges through an infinite array of distinct overtones from Fullman s Long String Instrument. With slight timbral variations and pitch juxtapositions, sympathetic resonances articulate overtone colorations and threads of resultant melodic fragments emerge and intertwine In 1981, at her studio in Brooklyn, Ellen Fullman began developing the Long String Instrument, in which rosin-coated fingers brush across dozens of metallic strings which has been compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano. Fullman s work explores the influences of sympathetic resonance using a unique notation that choreographs sonic events to occur at specific nodal point locations along the string-length of her instrument. The music has a multi-dimensional quality: threads of resultant melodic fragments emerge and intertwine, unfolding with a natural logic. Fullman has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has collaborated with such luminary figures as composer Pauline Oliveros, the Kronos Quartet, Keiji Haino, Susan Alcorn and Sean Meehan. Numerous interviews have been conducted with Fullman, including: the Wire (June 2004); and she has written articles that have been published in Experimental Musical Instrument (1985 and 1998), MusikTexte (Cologne 2002), and MusicWorks (Toronto 2003). Fullman was awarded a Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission/NEA Residency for Japan (2007); a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin residency (2000-2001); her music was represented in The American Century; Art and Culture, 1950-2000 at The Whitney Museum, and she has performed in numerous venues and festivals in Europe, Japan and North America. Fullman's release "Ort", with Belin-based collaborator Joerg Hiller, was selected as one of the top 50 recordings of 2004 by The Wire. Her collaboration with percussionist Sean Meehan at Instal 2006 was the number one downloaded track from the festival and has been released on Cut (Switzerland). Monique Buzzarté, trombonist/composer, is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone and with electronics in addition to creating her own compositions. Ms. Buzzarté's recent recordings include Fluctuations with Ellen Fullman (Deep Listening 38), Noah Creshevsky's To Know and Not to Know (Tzadik 8036), Zanana's Holding Patterns (Deep Listening 30), Dreaming Wide Awake with the New Circle Five (Deep Listening 20) and with the Arditti Quartet, John CAGE: Vol. 19 - The Number Pieces 2 (Mode 75). Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone project has supported the expansion of the trombone repertoire, and in recognition of her long history of commissioning and premiering new works Meet the Composer selected Ms. Buzzarté for their Soloist Champions program. An author and educator as well as a performer/composer, Ms. Buzzarté has published research on the brass music of women composers and received artist residencies as a composer and for the development of a unique interactive performance interface for the trombone. Her advocacy work for women in music included coordinating efforts which led to the admission of women members into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997. Ms. Buzzarté is certified to teach the meditative improvisation practices Minimize