Cecyl Ruehlen (Tucson, AZ) with Melanie Sehman/Sarah Yates Duo

Cecyl Ruehlen (b. 1984) is an intermedia artist, performer, educator and curator. While he has led a relatively nomadic life across the US, Ruehlen lives in the Sonoran Desert, morphing iterative actions, collaborative projects, objects and varying recording processes into a topological contortion with an array of chimeric instruments and extra-territorial sound forms. His forensic mode of composing is guided by deep listening and meteoric super-impositions that distort, abstract, decompose and explode internal and salvaged materials, shaping a practice that is as much drifting through temporary obsessions as it is devotional and steadfast in study. 

Sarah Yates (double bass) and Melanie Sehman (drums, percussion) form an improvising duo whose work breaks down conventional ensemble roles, blurring the line between melody and rhythm which is so often starkly drawn, defining their music instead by placing radical listening and interaction at the center of the creative process.