rachel devorah wood rome
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rilf (2024-2025) solo electronics improvisation structure
- resonances in the (un)valley between feminized machines/machinized femmes
- resignified signal include:"Monica"/Arthur Aron, "Ann Steel"/Robert Cacciapaglia, "Samantha"/Bill MacCartney, 'Pinky'/Fedha Sinon, 'Holly+'/Scarlett Johansson 'GrimesAI'/Claire Boucher
Devorah/Schmidt (2024-present) improvising duo
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Devorah/Koen (2024-present) improvising duo
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Devorah/Graham (2022-present) improvising duo
glacial til|green hill (2024) solo ep
tape release by impractical labor in service of the speculative arts/cele sound, listen to an excerpt here
traces cycles of fallowness and fertility, peaks and plateaus, in the Massachusetts spaces that the artist attempts to grow with/in
psalter ex machina (2023) solo album
digital release on cele sound, listen here
art makes us human. when a machine makes art, it challenges that axiom.
these works for midi-controlled acoustic organs, acoustic instruments, and electronics explore the spaces between human and machine art-making practices.
believe (2023) text score
for 'Post-Score' at co-opt research & projects
⤊⥁ta (2020-2023) a/v livecoding trio
rachel devorah - sound;
carl testa - sound;
melanie wilson - image.
bonvenon (2022) audio-visual improvisation structure for French horn and electronics
zatzal (of the golden west) (2021) audio-visual fixed media
radiant drift (2020) 'solo' album
digital release pan y rosas discos, listen here
Pregnant with the fetus who would become my daughter, I made hydrophone recordings from my cervix periodically between viability and birth.
radiant drift accounts for the relative motion of my daughter and me in spacialized audio as we individuated in gestation. The literal hydrophone recordings are set in counterpoint against a poetic rendering in analog electronics.
cybird drone (2018) audio-visual fixed media
palladian (2018) audio-visual fixed media
objectify (2017) sounding sculpture
offal (2015-2020) improvising ensemble
orchestra for femmes & laptops
blood moon (2014-2016) improvising quartet
matthew burtner - soprano saxophone;
kevin davis - cello;
ryan maguire - pedal steel guitar;
rachel devorah- horn.
aorist (2014-2022) improvising trio
kimberley a. sutton - cello & electronics;
kristina warren - voice & electronics;
rachel devorah - horn & electronics;
andrew weathers ensemble (2013-2015) improvising ensemble
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