Dorothy Carlos: Hands - A Spatial Audio Play
Dorothy Carlos presents "Hands - A Spatial Audio Play"
This piece is a reflection on tactility and physical bounds.
Artist: Dorothy Carlos
Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist and composer working in improvised performance and multi-channel sound in New York City and Chicago.
Her work utilizes extended techniques and digital manipulation, merging free improvisation and computer music. She is interested in digital techniques as an opportunity to construct alternate realities. Solo performances have been presented internationally by Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, Big Ears Festival, default, Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley, Chicago Jazz String Summit, and Bemis Center.
Dorothy has been featured as a collaborator on projects presented at the Swiss Institute (New York), Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Artists Space (New York), Performance Space (New York), Untitled Art Fair (Miami), Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht, NL), Emerging Change Festival (Berlin), and the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been featured by The Wire, New York Times, Artforum, Bandcamp, and The Quietus, and released digitally with 29 Speedway, D.O.T. Audio Arts, and American Dreams.
Dorothy holds a Bachelor’s degree from NYU where she studied classical cello and anthropology and an MFA in sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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