401 N Tamiami Trail
Osprey
FL 342295
“Meet Rucyl!”
An Hour with the 2025 Hermitage Greenfield Prize winner
Saturday, April 5 at 5:30pm
Historic Spanish Point (entrance at 401 N Tamiami Trail, Osprey, FL 342295)
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Registration is required. $5 per person.
Combining jazz, avant-garde R&B, hip-hop, and more through a unique blend of electronics and vocals, Rucyl Mills‘ sound art is grounded in a belief that humanity can gracefully evolve and find new forms of creative expression. Join the Hermitage for an hour of conversation and sound with this artist blazing a trail to the future of music.
Rucyl Mills is an American sound artist with a unique approach to music composition that blends noise art, bass wave, sample collage, and avant-garde R&B. She uses MIDI controllers, drone synths, and effects processors to create experimental compositions that are kinetic architectures for stage and film. Mills was an original member of the politically charged hip-hop group The Goats, performing internationally alongside bands like Bad Brains, Fishbone, and The Beastie Boys. Her creative methodologies deeply lean on punk, early dancehall, lovers rock, black folk, new wave, hip-hop, jazz, and experimental musical genres that celebrate anti-conventional compositional structure and performance as protest. Her preferred palette of electronic instruments and experimental software represents her belief that humanity can gracefully evolve using technology in art by democratizing access, and fostering new forms of creative expression and collaboration. Inspired by the experimental jazz musician Sun Ra, Mills co-founded Saturn Never Sleeps, an improvisational futuretronic label and audiovisual group. Mills has created interactive musical experiences, including the “Chakakhantroller,” a wearable MIDI controller for solo audiovisual performance; and “Sound Prism,” a solar powered interactive installation that explores sound as a physical representation of the frequencies of the color spectrum.