Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist working in performance and spatial audio. Her work utilizes amplification and digital manipulation to reorient the way sounds operate socially. She is interested in electronics as an opportunity to construct alternate realities.

Recent performances have been presented internationally by Bemis Center, Lampo, The Renaissance Society, Fridman Gallery, e-flux, CNMAT at UC Berkeley, default (The Hague), FELT (Copenhagen), Sustain-Release, Chicago Jazz String Summit, and Big Ears Festival. Dorothy has been featured as a collaborator on projects presented at Swiss Institute, Night Gallery, Artists Space, Issue Project Room, Performance Space, Pioneer Works, Wesleyan CFA, Untitled Art Fair, Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht), Emerging Change Festival (Berlin), Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), and the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art. Her research has been published by the American Anthropology Association and presented at Resynesizing the Traditional Lab at CTM Festival (Berlin). Her work has been featured in The Wire, New York Times, Artforum, Bandcamp, 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.