2020-present Bates Art Center Artist-in-Residence
2023 Marble House Project Artist-in-Residence
2023 Guilford Sound-Berklee Faculty Fellow
2018-20 MIT OpenDocLab Artist Fellow
2020 Boston Center for the Arts Artist-in-Residence
2018-19 Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Multi-Disciplinary Fellow (Berlin)
2014-19 Jefferson Scholars Foundation Fellow
2019 Studios at MassMoCA Artist-in-Residence
2017 Ruth Anderson Installation Prize from the International Alliance for Women in Music
2017 Elektronmusikstudion Guest Composer (Stockholm)
2017 Cove Park Artist-in-Residence [Scotland]
2016-17 Les Femmes de GRM/INA Archiviste (Paris)
2016 Mooste Külalis Stuudio Artist-in-Residence [Estonia]
2015 Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music Artist-in-Residence (Amsterdam)
2015 McGuffey Art Center Artist-in-Residence
2015 Praxis Fellow at the University of Virginia
2014 Kulturrådet: Røst Sound Co-Lab [Norway]
2014 New Museum Digital Archive Fellow
2012 New Music USA Grant
2010 Dolores Lab (Appen AI) Artist-in-Residence
2022- present Berklee College of Music
2024- present The Carpentries
2024 Firehouse Worchester
2023 Olin College of Engineering
2019-2022 Berklee College of Music
2017-19 Berklee College of Music
2018 Rhode Island School of Design
2018 Columbia University - Computer Music Center
2015-16 University of Virginia - Scholars' Lab
2014-15 University of Virginia - Music Department
2013 Mills College - Music Department
2008-10 Oakland, California Public Library
2008-10 Toolworks, San Francisco
2005-2008 Police Athletic League East New York, Brooklyn
2025 (forthcoming) Nomi Epstein, Laura Cetilia, & Rachel Devorah, open to the field Brooklyn: Infrequent Seams.
2024 Selected artists. "rilf" on SAMPLES WITHOUT BORDERS. Torun, Poland: WOMEN* OF NOISE.
2024 Rachel Devorah, glacial till | green hill. Bridgeport: ILSSA.
2023 Rachel Devorah, psalter ex machina. Royalston: cele sound.
2020 Rachel Devorah, Radiant Drift. Chicago: Pan Y Rosas Discos.
2016 Selected artists. "Covent Garden" on The Next Station. London: Cities and Memory with The London Sound Survey.
2015 Selected artists. "radiofarmdust" on 60x60 Wave Farm Mix. New York: Wave Farm Dispatch.
2024 Devorah, rilf live at AES/AI & the musician Boston: archive.org/details/devorahrilfliveataes
2023 Devorah / Graham, the tech that comes next. Boston: forbesgraham.bandcamp.com
2021 Selected artists, "Rachel Devorah + Carl Testa" on Infrequent Streamfest Night III. Brooklyn: Infrequent Seams.
2013 The Andrew Weathers Ensemble, What Happens When We Stop. Oakland: Full Spectrum Records.
2012 The Auricle, The Auricle. San Francisco: Josh Pollock, Inc.
2020 Gretchen Jude's "The Heights." Tokyo: Self-released.
2014 Nightworship's "Degrading & Everlasting the Same" on Frozen In Time II. San Francisco: Black Horizons.
"overmorrow" in Feminist Media Histories 3, no.3 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.3.173
"Ocularcentrism, Androcentrism" in parallax 23, no.3 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2017.1339969
"Resonant Sonic Specificity." PhD diss., University of Virginia, 2018. https://libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/tb09j6186
"Absence (2013) by Rachel Devorah" in Emergency Index 3 (2014).
"Listening beyond language: Annea Lockwood's The Glass Concert (1967--70)." Master's thesis, Mills College, 2013. Proquest (1537722).
Annie Goh, "Sonic Cyberfeminisms" in Cyberfeminism Index, ed. Mindy Seu. Los Angeles: Inventory Press, 2022.
Alan F. Blockwell et al, Live Coding: A User's Manual. Cambridge, MIT Press, 2022.
Ellie Hisama & Lucie Vágnerová, "For the Daughters of Harlem: Bridging Campus and Community through Sound" in U.S. Music in the 21st Century: Collaborative Perspectives, ed. Carol J. Oja and Charles Hiroshi Garrett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Natasha Marie Llorens, "A Language for Intimacy," Art Agenda. July 23, 2020. https://www.art-agenda.com/
Claudia Romano, "The Body, Sonic Art, and Limitless Possibilities, an interview with artist Rachel Devorah," Immerse. December 19, 2019. https://immerse.news/
"Sonic Cyberfeminisms - The Great Learning" in The Wire 422 (April 2019). https://www.thewire.co.uk
Dan Damon, "The sound of the London Underground" on the BBC World Update (London). August 23, 2016. https://www.bbc.co.uk/
Dave Cantor, "Blood Moon examines the line between notes on page and improvisation on stage" in The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Virginia). January 16, 2015.
Amoeba Music, "Rachel Wood Rome - What's In My Bag," August 2008.
French (A2), American Sign Language (intermediate)
C, C++, ChucK, CSS, HTML, Hydra, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL, SuperCollider, Tidal Cycles, XML
A-Frame, Ableton Live, Audacity, CollectiveAccess, Envelop, FB360, Final Cut Pro, git, IceCast, Inkscape, Isadora, JACK, Logic, Max/MSP, Reaper, Reason, Omeka, OBS, ProTools, PureData, Sibelius, SPEAR, TouchOSC, Unreal, VSDC
electrical engineering for audio and visual applications including integration with Bela, BeagleBone, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi
2024 AES International Symposium on AI and the Musician
2024 Berklee Teachers on Teaching
2023 Olin College
2023 Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media at Harvard University
2022 CRiASP, London College of Communication
2021 Wellesley College
2021 Brown University
2020 Residual Noise festival at Brown University
2019 Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
2018 New Interfaces for Musical Expression
2017 Feminist Theory and Music
2017 Reembodied Sound at Columbia University
2024-present Berklee LMSC-261 Course Co-Coordinator
2022-present Berklee MTEC-111 Course Co-Coordinator
2019-present Berklee Women Producers Club advisor
2022-present Berklee EPD Jury Committee
2022-present Berklee EPD Selection Committee
2022-present Berklee SPLICE EPD Faculty Mentor
2022-present Berklee EPD DEC Coding Working Group
2022-present Berklee EPD DEC Sound Design Working Group
2022-present Berklee MTEC-347 Course Developer and Coordinator
2021- 2022 Berklee EPD DEI Working Group Representative
2020-present Berklee MTEC-343 Course Developer and Coordinator
2019-present Berklee LMSC-261 Course Co-Developer
2018 Berklee Women in Action Student Group Advisor
2017-18 Berklee President's Working Group on Gender Equity Representative
2018 Berklee International Women's Day Teach-In Co-Chair
2022-present Non-Event
2022-present External Tenure Reviewer
2021-present Berklee Faculty Union - MS1140 AFT
2024-present Meta Open Innovation AI Research Community
2022-present Laconia Gallery, 501(c)3
2023 Foundry JukeBox/Cambridge Black History Project
2023 Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media at Harvard University
2023 International Conference on Live Coding
2021-2023 Laconia Gallery, 501(c)3
2022 Jefferson Scholars Foundation
2021-2022 Bates Art Center
2019-2021 Berklee Faculty Union - MS1140 AFT
2020 Network Music Festival
2020 Journal for New Music Research
2019 MIT Media Lab Reality Virtually Hackathon
2019 IAWM/FT&M Conference
2017-19 International Conference on Live Coding
2018 HUBweek
2014-16 UVa Music Department Safety/Sexual Misconduct Task Force
2015 Sonic Acts Festival (Amsterdam)
2013-14 New York Public Library: Performing Arts and Mid-Manhattan Branches
2010-11 New York Public Library: Correctional Services
2024
rilf live on Holyoke Public Media, July 25
mehetabel at Faneuil Hall for Fête de la Musique, Boston, June 21
rilf live at the AES International Symposium on AI and the Musician Boston, June 8
mehetabel at interwoven, New Bedford, May 12
rilf live at LiveCode.NYCxTOPLAP, Brooklyn, February 17
2023
psalter ex machina on Entrophy Sessions by Daedelus on dublab radio, October 14
asylum hill by Arneis Quartet at Laconia Gallery, Boston, October 6
rilf live at Fridman Gallery and live broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM, New York, August 2
bonvenon with Emily Boyer at International Horn Symposium, Montréal [Canada], July 28
believe (score) in Post-Score at co-opt research & projects, Lubbock, January 13-February 19
believe (performance) by Heather Warren-Crow and Jessica Lambert at co-opt research & projects, Lubbock, January 16
2022
april on Non-Event live stream, Boston, December 31
bonvenon with Emily Boyer at Connecticut College, New London, October 7
bonvenon with Emily Boyer at the Museum of Science, Boston, July 14
alloy at the Berklee Faculty Immersive Audio Recital, Boston, April 9
mehetabel at the Goethe-Institut, Boston, February 16
psalter ex machina at Orgelpark, Amsterdam [Netherlands], February 12
2021
glacial hill on Jefferson Park EXP live stream, Chicago, December 19
glacial hill on Berklee EPD Faculty live stream, Boston, November 18
MakerMatching with ILSSA at IS Projects, Fort Lauderdale, September 20-November 7
glacial hill | green hill at Non-Event in the Park, Brookline, October 3
2020
zatzal on Jefferson Park EXP live stream, Chicago, December 13
cybird drone on Non-Event live stream, Boston, November 27
zatzal on Berklee EPD Faculty live stream, Boston, November 19
zatzal on Brown University Arts Initiative stream, Providence, October 23
radiant drift in A Language for Intimacy, online exhibition by Abrons Art Center, New York, June 29-August 30
radiant drift at MIT's Dissolve Music festival, February 20
2019
waves by Maria Serkin and John R. Beck at the International Women's Brass Festival, May 25
mémoire etude as part of the Enredos Sónicos / ¡ ¡ ¡ Seccion ARTE exhibit curated by Nestor Siré at the Havana Biennial [Cuba], April 12-May 12
2018
mehetabel at Bromfield Gallery, Boston, November 17
cybird drone at Boston Hassle Fest, Boston, November 10
cybird drone at Dice Festival, Berlin [Germany], November 1-3
laho by Katy Ambrose at the Boulanger Initiative, Washington D.C., September 16
mehetabel at The Weird and the Beard, Boston, August 10
Palladian at 'Paul Rudolph -- Playing the Campus' at UMass-Dartmouth, April 27
three by New Thread Quartet at Spectrum, New York, February 18
three by New Thread Quartet at UVa, February 2
2017
revontulet documentation at the Bushwick Open Studios MISE-EN_PLACE sound art festival, New York, September 24
overmorrow: no attack in progress by Noise Bias at Slate Arts and Performance, Chicago, August 12
revontulet at Sound and Music Computing, Espoo [Finland], July 5-8
revontulet at the Segnali Festival, Perugia [Italy], May 2-6
objectify at the Computer Music Center of Columbia University, April 7-8
laho by Katy Ambrose at UVa, March 19 alberene by yarn|wire at UVa, January 27
ethel by Janice Isabel Jackson and choir at the Open Waters New Music Festival, Halifax [Canada], January 8
2016
imparpripyt by Driftless Winds at the College Music Society National Conference, Santa Fe, October 27
Alloy by Katy Ambrose at the Technosonics: Transmissions festival, Charlottesville, October 21
mehetabel at MoKS [Estonia], October 18
mehetabel at Electropixel Festival, Nantes [France], August 21
imparpripyt by Driftless Winds at the International Double Reed Society, Georgia, June 26
Citrina Migration by Apple Orange Pair at the International Horn Symposium, Ithaca, June 17
Citrina Migration by Apple Orange Pair at Connecticut Summerfest, The Hartt School of Music, Hartford, June 10
overmorrow: no attack in progress by the William Winant Percussion Group at Mills College, February 6
asylum hill by JACK Quartet at UVa, January 29
2015
the hopewell by Malina Rauschenfels and Simon Docking at the Opera From Scratch Festival at Dalhousie University, Halifax [Canada], August 23
Poem on the Radio by Kayleigh Butcher at the Omaha Under the Radar festival, July 10
radiofarmdust at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn as part of the 60x60 Wave Farm Mix, April 30
{auto}poetics&tune (2015) at the Digitalis festival, Charlottesville, April 28
Citrina Migration by Apple Orange Pair at the Mid-Atlantic Harp Day, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, April 25
Rush by loadbang at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Charlottesville, March 20
radiofarmdust broadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM, New York as part of the 60x60 Wave Farm Mix, March 7
Pontifex by orkest de ereprijs as part of their Young Composers Meeting Concert at Podium Gigant [Netherlands], February 28
overmorrow by Meehan/Perkins Duo at UVa, February 20
2014
Moss by Joshua Marshall at the Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, September 12
mehetabel at ABC No Rio, New York, July 13
judges sixteen in QUARTETS at Brown University as part of the OPENSIGNAL Festival, Providence, May 16-17
Prayers of the Unconvinced at The Firehouse Space, Brooklyn, March 23
Alloy at the Uncertainty Music Series, New Haven, February 22
2013
four at Art in Odd Places, Greensboro, November 1-2
Poem on the Radio by Kayleigh Butcher at Barbés, Brooklyn, October 4
Chiromantia by the Rhymes with Opera Pocket Opera Company at the National Opera Center, New York, August 10
Alloy at the International SuperCollider Symposium, Boulder, May 22
Alloy at the California Electronic Music Exchange Concert, May 12
Okay with Joshua Marshall, Tim Kim, Forest Kamerin, and Mateo Lugo at Mills College as part of the Signal Flow Festival, March 8
2012
milk by the Del Sol Quartet at Z Space, San Francisco, December 4
Burning with Robert Lopez at Vessel Gallery, Oakland as part of the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, October 11
Unholy at Wesleyan University, Middletown as part of The Musical Singularity Festival, September 27
Burning at Ange Noir, Brooklyn, June 30
Prayers of the Unconvinced at the Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association's FaSoLa Festival, Jasper, Alabama, June 13
Prayers of the Unconvinced at Nightlight, Chapel Hill, May 27
Prayers of the Unconvinced at Squidco, Wilmington, May 26
Willie and Rose by Meaghan Leferink at Mills College, March 16
Non Mi Merito Questo at Mills College and on YouTube, Jan 31
2011
Short Stories by Fred Frith at Mills College, November 28
Static with Andrew Weathers and Shanna Sordahl at Occupy Oakland, November 1
2010
moss on Crowdflower/Appen AI November 19-21
2024
Carl Schmidt + Devorah at The Foundry, Cambridge, December 5
hardware electronics duo with Isabella Koen at the Dissolve Festival, Cambridge, October 4
Forbes Graham + Tatsuya Nakatani + Devorah at Mobius, Cambridge, September 13
Andrew Neumann + Devorah at 118 Elliot, Brattleboro, August 17
Koen + Devorah, sysex club, Providence, June 8
Koen + Devorah at the Waterworks Festival, Boston, April 26
2023
Forbes Graham + Jennie Gottschalk + Nomi Epstein + Devorah presented by Mobius Artists Group at the LilyPad, Cambridge, January 12
2022
iota (Carl Testa + Melanie Wilson + Devorah) at Beautiful Machines AlgoRave, Cambridge, October 12
Aorist (with Kimberley A. Sutton and Kristina Warren) at Music Mansion, Providence, May 6
Claire Autorino, Devorah, Natalie Hogue, + Maya Wagner (Berklee LiveCoding students) livecoding at TopLab IWD gathering, Berlin,March 8
iota at lines series livestream, February 5
2021
Testa + Devorah livecoding at EulerRoom Equinox Festival, London, December 22
2020
Testa + Devorah at Infrequent Seams Stream Fest, New York, December 19
Testa + Devorah at Non-Event live stream, Boston, September 29
Testa + Devorah at Beacon Hill Friends House Experiments in Faithfulness live stream, Boston, August 19
offal at Network Music Festival stream, London, June 9
analog electronics with Seiyoung Jang at the Non-Event Village Vinyl, Boston, January 14
2019
Jang + Devorah at the Dorchester Art Project, Boston, October 20
Jang + Devorah at the New England Synth Fest, Boston, September 28
2017
Aorist at infuse, Paris [France], October 16
Aorist at the North Country Electronic Music Festival, Burlington, September 9
offal at Sonic Cyberfeminisms, Lincoln [England], May 5
2016
offal at the Women in Music Tech festival, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, November 2
offal at the International Conference on Live Coding at McMaster University [Canada], October 15
offal at the International Conference on Live Interfaces at the University of Sussex [England], July 2
blood moon (with Matthew Burtner, Ryan Maguire and Kevin Davis) at the University of California, Irvine, February 9
2015
Aorist at Mardi Spaghetti, Montréal [Canada], August 11
Aorist at Array Space, Toronto [Canada], August 9
Aorist at Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, August 8
blood moon at the Sondation festival, Charlottesville, April 24
blood moon with Sir Richard Bishop at Twisted Tea Bazaar, Charlottesville, April 13
blood moon at The Bridge, PAI, Charlottesville, January 16
2014
Aorist at the Technosonics: Found Sound festival, Charlottesville, November 6
Guest improviser with Articular Facet as part of the Chicago Calling festival, Chicago, October 5
Aorist at 17 Frost, Brooklyn, February 1
2013
Aorist at Actual, Oakland, May 4
2009
The Cornelius Cardew Choir at the International Society of Improvised Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, December 5
2023
shark with Sarah Beth Oppenheim and Jacob Remin at Marble House Project, Dorset, VT, July 21
2019
Orange Drop with Katya Popova at the Studios at MassMoCA, North Adams, February 26-28
2018
Floating Lanterns with Theresa Wong at the Stone, New York, March 30
2016
Poem on the Radio / Belle Island at Boxue Concert Hall, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing [China], July 13
2015
For Now with Kathryn Baer Schetlick and Jennifer Lauren Smith at P/H/A/O/N Gallery, Brooklyn, April 4
radiodustmonster with Liew Niyomkarn by I-Jen Fang at UVa, February 20
2014
eden with Marie Kaada Hovden at Røst AiR [Norway], August 21
Mirror Thickets with Lisa Blas at the Elizabeth Street Garden Gallery, New York, June 1
Shoot with Brad Henkel and Alex Nathanson at Outpost, New York, February 21
2020
Giuseppina Giordano's Traces of Dreamt Children at the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, February 8
2016
Ryan Ross Smith's Concerto for Franziska Schroeder at the New Notations Symposium, IRCAM, Paris [France], September 22
2015
Matthew Burtner's Nocture: Music for a Moth Cinema, a cross-disciplinary collaboration with Natalie Jeremijenko at Ruffin Gallery, Charlottesville, March 27
2013
Dilek Acay's Amnesia at the Watermill Center, New York, August 11
Sam Withrow's Afterimage at the Signal Flow Festival, Mills College, March 10
2012
Brenda Hutchinson's What Can You Do? at The Stone, New York, August 22
Roscoe Mitchell's Cards: In the Faces of Roses at Yoshi's, Oakland, April 16