Dorothy Carlos & isabel crespo pardo

Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist and composer working in improvised performance and spatial audio. isabel crespo pardo is an NYC-based vocalist, improviser-composer, and interdisciplinary artist. For this performance, they are premiering Longingcore, a new work for voices, bass, and electronics that experiments with song form. In this performance, their first fully realized collaboration as a duo, they thread written and found texts into a series of vignettes, each with heavily processed acoustic sounds and pre-recorded material.

Longingcore takes the side of imperfection, drawing on broken signals. These disconnections between sound and source point to a familiar pressure for Carlos and crespo pardo—what they describe as “our need to remake ourselves in the digital environment.”

Co-Presented with Lampo.