Rachel Devorah Wood Rome

racheldevorah.studio

Fellowships/Prizes/Residencies

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

Teaching

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

Discography

As composer/sonic artist

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.

As improviser

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.

As performer realizing the compositions of others

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.

Publications

Peer Reviewed

"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

Other

"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).

Mentions/Interviews

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.

Language and Technology Proficiencies

Languages:

French (A2), American Sign Language (intermediate)

Coding:

C, C++, ChucK, CSS, HTML, Hydra, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL, SuperCollider, Tidal Cycles, XML

Software:

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

Circuitry:

electrical engineering for audio and visual applications including integration with Bela, BeagleBone, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi

Education

Ph.D. in Music Composition and Computer Technologies - University of Virginia

M.L.I.S. - San José State University

M.A. in Music Composition - Mills College

B.Mus. in Performance (horn) - City University of New York (Queens College)

Recent Talks/Panels

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

Recent Leadership/Service

Service to the Berklee College of Music

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

Service to the Profession and Leadership

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

Information Science and Archival Work

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

Selected Performances and Installations

As composer/sonic artist

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

As collaborative improviser

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

As cross-disciplinary collaborator

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

As performer realizing the compositions of others

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