Wooden Ox Or Barew Music, by Cecyl Ruehlen

Wooden Ox Or Barew Music

by Cecyl Ruehlen

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	1.	Tethered Air Zones 07:46
	2.	Turnt Mirrors For Horn & Two Speakers 04:41
	3.	Topognostics 1 10:50
	4.	A Basin For Stone & Wood 13:03
	5.	The Weight Of Falling Grains 08:31
	6.	Lowing With The Mountain Spirits 08:55
	7.	Pulse Beats & Broken Circles 07:03
	8.	Xylem & Phloem Or Telephone Lines & Reflecting Pools 14:12
	9.	Dummy Trumpet 03:19
	10.	Wave Drag (For John) 08:18

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"Wooden Ox Or Barew Music"
Recorded, Composed & Performed By
Cecyl (formerly Ryan Wade) Ruehlen
Jan-May 2021
Harmonic Ooze Records / HZ No. 006 / Tucson AZ / 2021

cecylruehlen.bandcamp.com

***Digital Download Comes With PDF Liner Notes / Photo Book ***
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Performance Video Documents:

Tethered Air Zones:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeFPOm7Q0pQ&t=0s

Topognostics 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3pwObI_JhQ&t=0s

Lowing The Mountain Spirit:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7y2pulSXHI&t=0s

Turnt Mirrors For Horn & Two Speakers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBiGhU_2mG4&t=0s

Xylem & Phloem Or Telephone Lines & Reflecting Pools: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8HF-W_0M8&t=0s

Dummy Trumpet:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjkQ_2h_NQ&t=0s

Pulse Beats & Broken Circles:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7cALq4IRj4&t=0s

A Basin For Stone & Wood:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTh8rk0TF9s&t=0s

Wave Drag [For John]:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcreM2_-z_Q&t=0s

The Weight Of Falling Grains:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcreM2_-z_Q&t=0s
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A series of 10 audio-video performances recorded between January and May 2021 throughout the Sonoran Desert in Southern Arizona. This collection of discrete compositions uncouple numerous instruments from their conventional acoustic tones and usages. While not present in every work, Saxophone takes the central role in several performances. "Barew" is a Middle English word from an older term "bearwe"; which means "to carry", and is what we currently refer to as "barrow" (ex. wheelbarrow), a device used for carrying loads.

Each instrument(s) in this series is treated as an object of possibility prior to it being acted upon as a strictly music instrument. As objects of possibility, they each carry the weight of their specific construction and embodied lexicon while also contorting and abandoning those basic restrictions. All 10 works occur in open desert terrain and the ambient soundscape of each place finds its way into the recording, either as an intentional auxiliary instrument or as happenstance of that time and place's volume. Wind, sand and wood accompany the actions made by Ruehlen's movements. Binding, amplifying and obstructing instruments allows the performer to touch and hear, to grapple with, the object in unfamiliar ways.

As with much of Ruehlen's work spanning at least the last six years, he uses a personalized, off-grid electro-acoustic set-up where a live audience is absent and occurs in isolated, outdoor settings.

1. Tethered Air Zones - An Arrangement For Soprano Saxophone / Dirt Mounds / Bells / Rope / Shovel / Rake / Plow / Loudspeaker / Microphones / Mixer / Wind

2. Turnt Mirrors For Horn & Two Speakers - Commissioned For The Film "Experimental Arizona" 2021 / Iklectik Art Space (South London UK) / Curated By Jimmie Peggie (Phoenix AZ) / Soprano Saxophone / Pitched Mixer / Two Speakers

3. Topognostics 1 - A Composition For Alto Saxophone / Corrupted Mixer / Loops / Loudspeaker

4. A Basin or Stone And Wood - An Arrangement For Steel Pot / Modified Wooden Rod For Vibration / Sand / Movement

5. The Weight Of Falling Grains - Originally Composed For 2021 Co-Incidence Festival / www.coincidencefestival.com / Composition For Sand Bag & Amplified Crash Cymbal

6. Lowing With The Mountain Spirits - Composition For Altered Soprano Horn / Loudspeaker / Wind

7. Pulse Beats & Broken Circles - A Composition For Piezo Amplified Alto Saxophone / Mixer / Irregular Circular Breathing / Loudspeaker / Wind

8. Xylem & Phloem Or Telephone Lines & Reflecting Pools - A Composition For Alto Saxophone / Corrupted Mixer / Loops / Loudspeaker

9. Dummy Trumpet - Composition For Altered Brass Mouthpiece / Steel Bowl / Bells / Wind

10. Wave Drag [For John] - A Composition For Gravel / Cinder Blocks / Steel Pot / Rope / Shovel / Brick / Bells / Harmonica / Radio Frequency 266.23 kHz At 6:20 PM

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