Center For New Music presents:
Ruehlen/Trejo Duo (West Coast Tour '25 / Tucson AZ)
With
Agnes Martian (Oakland CA)
Zero Charisma (Oakland CA)
SHOW AT 7PM / $10 MEMBERS / $15 NON-MEMBERS / SUNDAY JAN 19TH 2025
Tucson, AZ based experimental project Ruehlen/Trejo Duo will be on their latest west coast tour in January '25.
Cecyl Ruehlen & Chelsey Lee Trejo perform long form compositions with expanded instruments focused around slowly unfolding harmonic variations, alternative tunings, and textural devotion. Ruehlen will be utilizing his latest hand made sound object, a “hexachimeric drone" of resonating, multimodal strings and voice, while Trejo works with a combination of custom crafted metal objects, synths, winds, and voice. Their collaboration grows out of the traditions and present-edge of drone musics that spiral across desert communities throughout the world.
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Benjamin Rodgers and Zekarias Thompson started Agnes Martian in Oakland in 2019 as a weekly ritual of free form sonic exploration, drawing on friends from a wide variety of musical backgrounds for sprawling warehouse noise sessions. The project continually adapts to changing circumstances and moods, reflecting a collaborative and deconstructive approach to cosmic music-making.
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ZERO CHARISMA, is a distinctive voice emerging from the rich tapestry of the Bay Area's artistic landscape. Her origin story as a queer, black, and indigenous afro-futurist fuels her work.
Listeners often find themselves transported into a dreamlike state when enveloped by her melodies, reminiscent of profound meditative journeys. Zero Charisma’s music wraps you in a state of transcendence, as it bridges the stories of our spiritual realities, ethereal and grounded.
Nature's vibrance forms the core of her lyrical universe. As her voice layers and loops around itself forming haunting choruses, Zero Charisma builds a powerful current of song, adding layers of lyrics, sometimes accentuated with the pulse of synths and beats.