Cecyl Ruehlen
@cecylruehlen.bsky.social
Composer-Performer-Organizer-Artist-Flâneur/ adj professor @ U of Arizona / cecylruehlen.com / cecylruehlen.bandcamp.com / runs harmonicoozerecords.bandcamp.com / co-runs Wave Archive / Tucson AZ USA / He/They
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Latest Solo Album Oozetones/Fleshscapes out on 2182 kHz Recording Co. listen / grab here: cecylruehlen.bandcamp.com/album/oozeto...
Big thanks to Marc Masters for covering my latest solo LP oozetones/fleshscapes in the best of experimental this summer! daily.bandcamp.com/best-experim...
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, August 2025
What we listened to on our summer vacation.
daily.bandcamp.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Big thanks to Marc Masters for covering my latest solo LP oozetones/fleshscapes in the best of experimental this summer! daily.bandcamp.com/best-experim...
Thank you for listening and always grateful for folks to write and think on the work I do. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Happening Again #45 has dropped into inboxes, and features a musical round-up that includes @cecylruehlen.bsky.social and @matthewhiram.bsky.social, as well as bits on space and Silksong.
Happening Again #45
Through the looking-glass and then some
open.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Thank you for listening and always grateful for folks to write and think on the work I do. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Reposted by Cecyl Ruehlen
Fans of « out » sounds and custom built instruments should seek out this lavishly packaged and wildly inventive « Oozetones / Fleshscapes » LP by @cecylruehlen.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Fans of « out » sounds and custom built instruments should seek out this lavishly packaged and wildly inventive « Oozetones / Fleshscapes » LP by @cecylruehlen.bsky.social
Latest Solo Album Oozetones/Fleshscapes out on 2182 kHz Recording Co. listen / grab here: cecylruehlen.bandcamp.com/album/oozeto...
August 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Latest Solo Album Oozetones/Fleshscapes out on 2182 kHz Recording Co. listen / grab here: cecylruehlen.bandcamp.com/album/oozeto...
Reposted by Cecyl Ruehlen
Stop the presses, this thing musicologists and composers have been saying for literal decades just got validated by one of the fields of study people actually respect
Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds
The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge centuries of Western music theory and encourage greater e...
phys.org
February 29, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Stop the presses, this thing musicologists and composers have been saying for literal decades just got validated by one of the fields of study people actually respect
A little early evening stroll through the Saguaro National Forest the other day
February 24, 2024 at 6:42 PM
A little early evening stroll through the Saguaro National Forest the other day
If your sense of home and sense of freedom requires the annihilation of others then you will never find home and never feel freedom
February 8, 2024 at 11:45 PM
If your sense of home and sense of freedom requires the annihilation of others then you will never find home and never feel freedom
Been here
February 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Been here
Inside of each drone is a WORLD of pitches, be brave be mystified
February 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Inside of each drone is a WORLD of pitches, be brave be mystified
Compersion plays tonight here in Tucson. Come see us. 7:30 at owls club
February 3, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Compersion plays tonight here in Tucson. Come see us. 7:30 at owls club
My group Compersion is on a western US tour next month, had a spot fall through to crash at in San Francisco for a gig there, anybody wanna let 4 hotties sleep on their floor or maybe even a couch?
February 2, 2024 at 5:24 PM
My group Compersion is on a western US tour next month, had a spot fall through to crash at in San Francisco for a gig there, anybody wanna let 4 hotties sleep on their floor or maybe even a couch?
I turn 40 this year and I definitely don’t want to reread my criticism of Philip Sousa in my undergrad online music appreciation course from 2004.
February 2, 2024 at 5:13 PM
I turn 40 this year and I definitely don’t want to reread my criticism of Philip Sousa in my undergrad online music appreciation course from 2004.
After over a year of conceiving of a new tool/instrument for my solo work (and realizing early on that I couldn’t do it myself) I Just met with someone who is able to collaborate with me on designing and building it. I’m over the moon! A new direction in performances hopefully coming later in 2024
January 27, 2024 at 6:30 PM
After over a year of conceiving of a new tool/instrument for my solo work (and realizing early on that I couldn’t do it myself) I Just met with someone who is able to collaborate with me on designing and building it. I’m over the moon! A new direction in performances hopefully coming later in 2024
This new Mary Halvorson is, of course, totally awesome. Would love to see who the other players though 🫠 you should listen heads
maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/cloudw...
maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/cloudw...
Cloudward, by Mary Halvorson
8 track album
maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com
January 26, 2024 at 6:23 PM
This new Mary Halvorson is, of course, totally awesome. Would love to see who the other players though 🫠 you should listen heads
maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/cloudw...
maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/cloudw...
This new Mary Halvorson is, of course, totally awesome. Would love to see who the other players though 🫠 you should listen heads
maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/cloudw...
maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/cloudw...
January 26, 2024 at 6:22 PM
This new Mary Halvorson is, of course, totally awesome. Would love to see who the other players though 🫠 you should listen heads
maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/cloudw...
maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/cloudw...
Sold my van today for scrap, my next tattoo gonna have to a “van slayer”piece cuz this is the 4th van I’ve watched die in my arms as an adult RIP
January 26, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Sold my van today for scrap, my next tattoo gonna have to a “van slayer”piece cuz this is the 4th van I’ve watched die in my arms as an adult RIP
Reposted by Cecyl Ruehlen
Premiere! Exciting new project from Armenian sax player/composer, Raffi Garabedian. It's adapted from his father & grandmother’s writings, telling the story of the Armenian journey overseas and immigrating to America. Listen to "A Mother's Letter" now! foxydigitalis.zone/2024/01/25/t...
Track Premiere: Raffi Garabedian “A Mother’s Letter”
Photo by Lenny Gonzalez Raffi Garabedian’s new album, The Crazy Dog, is a concept album adapted from his father and grandmother’s writings, weaving the tapestry of the Armenian jou…
foxydigitalis.zone
January 25, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Premiere! Exciting new project from Armenian sax player/composer, Raffi Garabedian. It's adapted from his father & grandmother’s writings, telling the story of the Armenian journey overseas and immigrating to America. Listen to "A Mother's Letter" now! foxydigitalis.zone/2024/01/25/t...
Reposted by Cecyl Ruehlen
Fuck the supreme court for many reasons, but especially for it's support of state sanctioned murder in all forms.
Supreme court declines to halt first US nitrogen-gas execution in Alabama case
Court rejects bid to stop Alabama from proceeding with execution using nitrogen gas on convicted murderer Kenneth Smith
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Fuck the supreme court for many reasons, but especially for it's support of state sanctioned murder in all forms.
Imagine ….. renting a drum set 🫠
oh my god the new Roland drum kits are “Roland Cloud line” which means you buy the exorbitant hardware and then pay subscription fees to actually use the kit. tech ruined electronic drums.
January 25, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Imagine ….. renting a drum set 🫠
Reposted by Cecyl Ruehlen
How to summarize the role of capitalism in the war on trans people in two images: this is a screenshot of an ADF ad defending their alleged right to discriminate against trans people embedded inside a local news article about a bill stripping civil rights protections from trans people.
January 25, 2024 at 8:47 PM
How to summarize the role of capitalism in the war on trans people in two images: this is a screenshot of an ADF ad defending their alleged right to discriminate against trans people embedded inside a local news article about a bill stripping civil rights protections from trans people.
My friend, bandmate, academic peer and venue co-operator asking for my burrito order for our lunch meeting a week in advance is the spice of life
January 25, 2024 at 11:23 PM
My friend, bandmate, academic peer and venue co-operator asking for my burrito order for our lunch meeting a week in advance is the spice of life
My quartet Compersion performs next Saturday for the Desert Drone Series here in Tucson. With a set by Portuguese artist Pedro Lopes Baptista and Zach Hansen.
January 25, 2024 at 4:38 PM
My quartet Compersion performs next Saturday for the Desert Drone Series here in Tucson. With a set by Portuguese artist Pedro Lopes Baptista and Zach Hansen.
This is tonight at golden saguaro here in Tucson, come get weird
January 17, 2024 at 3:12 PM
This is tonight at golden saguaro here in Tucson, come get weird
Just watched a women in a nice scarf pour the smallest amount of wine into her glass, swirl it, take the little gulp and do a little shoulder shimmy before going back to typing into her iPad
January 16, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Just watched a women in a nice scarf pour the smallest amount of wine into her glass, swirl it, take the little gulp and do a little shoulder shimmy before going back to typing into her iPad