Cecyl Ruehlen Residency: Casting Phases Through A Cloud-Stone Piano

a 12-channel debut performance of Ruehlen's latest chimeric instrument, the Cloud-Stone Piano, developed while in residency at Oracle Egg Cecyl Ruehlen dreams up instruments, situations and installations. Their work is shaped through devotional listening and guided by occult philosophical practices where the feral development of an idea or a tool is propelled by desires to uncover hidden matters, secret worlds. While located at the Broiler Residency, they will be completing the first realization of their latest chimeric instrument, the Cloud-Stone Piano. This "60-key" electro-mechanical drone object will be performed within a 12-channel system, in a spatial arrangement throughout Oracle Egg's gallery environment. Leading up to the final night performance event, Ruehlen will be working alone and with Oracle Egg's team to chart a unique acoustic layout that fractures the inner tonalities of the instrument into discrete, warbling voices that merge and bleed into each other. Through the spatial design process Ruehlen will create structured, yet improvised, compositional zones that accentuate a blossoming, arranged environment.