Rachel specializes in writing electronic scores for dance companies, TV, and film. She has written music for dance and film projects that have won awards such as Capital Emmy's and Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. She is Director of Sound for pateldanceworks in Oakland, California.
Rachel has written and performed music for Anna Halprin, David Thomson, Molissa Fenley, Bhumi Patel, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Will McConnell, Amanda Doherty, Deep Structure Productions, and Maria Nilssen-Waller in the US, Ireland, and Germany.
Portfolio
You Are Here:, Dir: Will McConnell, 2021:
Voice and electronics arrangements of traditional song “Pretty Saro” and “Angel Band”
Black Holes, company: pateldanceworks, San Francisco, 2017:
Original composition featuring voice, samples, piano, and electronics
“The structure, production, and soundscore of [divisions the empire has sown] were stunning and impressively cohesive towards fleshing out such a complex and nuanced theme as colonialism and Partition.”