Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist and composer working in improvised performance and spatial audio. Her work utilizes extended techniques and digital manipulation merging free improvisation and computer music. She is interested in electronics as an opportunity to construct alternate realities.

Solo performances have been presented internationally by Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, Bemis Center, e-flux, default (The Hague), Center for New Music and Associated Technologies at UC Berkeley, Sustain-Release, Chicago Jazz String Summit, and Big Ears Festival. Dorothy has been featured as a collaborator on projects presented at the Swiss Institute, Night Gallery, Artists Space, Issue Project Room, Performance Space, Untitled Art Fair (Miami), Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht), Emerging Change Festival (Berlin), and the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been featured in The Wire, New York Times, Artforum, Bandcamp, Chicago Tribune, and The Quietus, and released with 29 Speedway, Random Man Editions, and D.O.T. Audio Arts.

Dorothy holds a Bachelor’s degree from NYU where she studied classical cello and anthropology on full scholarship and an MFA in sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.