ROME, Rachel Devorah

Rachel Devorah Wood Rome is an American improvising electronic musician, researcher, and educator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is interested in superhuman prolongation; supramachine opacity; the re-signification of archaic tools & materials; and parallels between the physical properties & social meanings of spaces. Her projects have received support from the Adrian Piper Foundation (Berlin), EMS (Stockholm), INA/GRM (Paris), the Goethe Institut [DE], MassMoCA [US], the New Museum [US], New Music USA, STEIM (Amsterdam), Swissnex [CH], and Villa Albertine [FR].
It has been released on pan y rosas discos (Chicago); Infrequent Seams (NYC); and Full Spectrum Records (Oakland), published by parallax; Feminist Media Histories; and Ugly Duckling Presse, and has been heard in fifteen countries on four continents performed by/with artists such as Nava Dunkelman, Fred Frith, Forbes Graham, Brad Henkel, Seiyoung Jang, Ava Mendoza, Roscoe Mitchell, Robbie Lee, Lydia Moyer, Ryan Muncy, Liew Niyomkarn, Erin Rogers, and the William Winant Ensemble.

She is employed as a Senior Lecturer of Music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast. She was previously employed as an Assistant Professor of Electronic Production and Design | Creative Coding at the Berklee College of Music, Boston; a lecturer at the University of Virginia; as an instructor-of-record at Mills College; as well as a digital archivist and reference librarian by the New York Public Library, among other positions.