Tuesday November 26 * 7pm * $10-25 * TICKETS

Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist and electronic musician working in improvised performance and multi-channel sound in New York City and Chicago. Her work utilizes randomized electronics and extended techniques to explore fragility and imaginaries. Solo performances have been presented internationally by e-flux, Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, Big Ears Festival, default, Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley, Chicago Jazz String Summit, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dorothy has been featured as an artist and collaborator in 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) and the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been featured in The Wire, New York Times, Artforum, The Quietus, and the Chicago Reader. Dorothy has released recorded music through D.O.T. Audio Arts and American Dreams. 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.

Sarah Lutkenahus is an multidisciplinary artist using design, collage, and sound as her primary mediums. Her practice explores modes of storytelling across image, sound, and architectural environment. She is currently based in Chicago.

Ivan Liptak is a guitarist from Washington, DC.  He attended Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts where he studied improvisation, composition, and guitar.  He currently holds a BFA in Guitar Performance from Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has studied a range of idioms with artists including Anthony Pirog, Marty Ehrlich, Amanda Monaco, Kate Soper, and Phillip de Fremery. His influences include but are not limited to Adris Hoyos, Marc Ribot, and Cindy Lee.