Chicago Reader - Cellist and sound artist Dorothy Carlos brings My Ideal Is Windy to the Lincoln Park Conservatory
Gossip Wolf’s first exposure to newly local cellist and sound artist Dorothy Carlos was via her 2022 cassette Circuit Sphere (American Dreams), which features five stunning tracks of her cello alternating with synthesizer lines performed on instruments designed and built by Brian Oakes, aka United Sound Systems. The Reader’s Leor Galil hailed her work on the album for teasing out “resonant textures, prodding humming drones till they shriek (“I Started”) or making nuanced textural shifts that feel as rejuvenating as a hint of cool lakeside breeze on a hot July evening.” If you find yourself missing hot summer nights now that temperatures are finally dropping for real, Carlos’ new site-responsive sound installation, My Ideal Is Windy, is featured at the Lincoln Park Conservatory’s toasty Fern Room through Sunday, January 14.