Overmorrow

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Research Article| July 01 2017 Overmorrow: http://racheldevorah.studio/works/overmorrow/ Rachel Devorah Rachel Devorah Rachel Devorah is an American sonic artist living in Paris whose research explores context-specific practices as sites of feminist resistance and reimagining. Her work has been heard at La Fabrique, Nantes, France, and the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, San Francisco; has been performed by artists such as yarn|wire and JACK quartet; and has been supported by residencies at MoKS, Estonia, and STEIM, the Netherlands. Her writing has been published in Emergency Index and parallax. She is a member of the improvisation collectives OFFAL (Orchestra for Females and Laptops) and aorist. racheldevorah.studio Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Feminist Media Histories (2017) 3 (3): 173–177. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.3.173 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rachel Devorah; Overmorrow: http://racheldevorah.studio/works/overmorrow/. Feminist Media Histories 1 July 2017; 3 (3): 173–177. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.3.173 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFeminist Media Histories Search Keywords: gun violence, intermedia, sonification, sound Debates on gun violence in America rely on value-laden data and value-laden representations of that data. How can those of us using data in such debates best lade our representations with pro-intersectional feminist values? Overmorrow is an ongoing project that sonifies American gun violence data. Sonification is the process of presenting a data set for conceptualization through sound—the aural equivalent of visualization. Overmorrow is based on the supposition that because sound locates a listener in a moment in time, sonification facilitates relational logic in certain data conceptualizations, and relational logic can in turn facilitate recognition. Judith Butler argues in Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (2004) that all people are commonly vulnerable to violence (in the most primitive sense—that our living bodies are susceptible to death), but that “recognition [of this vulnerability] has the power to change the meaning and structure of … vulnerability itself. In this sense,... You do not currently have access to this content.