believe(2023) score
believe(2023) score
live electronics improvisation with context-specific archival materials
rachel devorah - sound;
carl testa - sound;
melanie wilson - image.
traces cycles of fallowness and fertility, peaks and plateaus, in the Massachusetts spaces that the artist attempts to grow with/in
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.
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.
orchestra for femmes & laptops
matthew burtner - soprano saxophone;
kevin davis - cello;
ryan maguire - pedal steel guitar;
rachel devorah- horn.
kimberley a. sutton - cello & electronics;
kristina warren - voice & electronics;
rachel devorah - horn & electronics;