erictheise
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Told you about my 9 Apr show @ #GuildCinema #Albuquerque w/ #KennethCornell & #CliffordGrindstaff but Ken & I will perform the following night, Fri 10 Apr, w/ #CarlosSantistevan @ #SantaFeNoiseOrdinance.
#ASynesthetesAtlas #SantaFe #improvisation #expandedCinema #maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap
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Seven days & 1250 miles ago CAST presented the premiere performance of the piece #ShahrzadTalebi & I put together for #LineUponLinePercussionEnsemble. Here's a brief touchdown & liftoff in Brussels. Lovely street grid, also where mutual friend & stellar vocalist, #SarahGraceGraves, is now based.
This map animation was pre-recorded; tonight at #WaveArchive, #Tucson, w/musicians #JeffreyGordonEvans, #HannahJoyce, & @detritus, I'll return to a live improvisation format.
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One point's not a line, one date's not a tour.
On 9 Apr I'll perform at Guild Cinema in Albuquerque w/Kenneth Cornell & Clifford Grindstaff. Been in the Guild's audience but never on stage; thrilled to share it w/these two.
#ASynesthetesAtlas
#GuildCinema #Albuquerque #DukeCity
#KennethCornell #CliffordGrindstaff.
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Post-Austin/CAST I'm touring #ASynesthetesAtlas through AZ, NM, & CO. First up: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 in #Tucson @ #WaveArchive, a loaded program w/locals #JeffreyGordonEvans, #HannahJoyce , & Steev Hise (@detritus ) in various configs.
#experimental #improvisation #expandedCinema
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g -
maps - geography = labels & icons (w/apologies to Niklaus Wirth).
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Projection surface @ #dadaLab is 4 screens wide: 2 at back, 2 on sides. For my collab w/ #ShahrzadTalebi I created maps that fill ⅛, ⅕, ¼, ⅓, ½, multiples thereof, & full screen.
First viewing in situ; needs tweaks before rehearsals & Sat premiere but pleased.
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I blurred my signature because it hasn’t much changed. The PO Box, the account, the bank: long gone. ISTR I had a Working Assets long distance phone plan, too, for my landline.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend
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¹ we’ll get to the one exception.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend
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People’ve deleted my posts elsewhere on this topic, blocked my account. All along, those in a position to address the issue¹ have resorted to hand-wringing & “oh, that’s a shame”.
Doubters: my check.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend
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This former Board Member/President, program note compiler/author, monograph co-author, occasional curator & fundraiser, says: time for callous treatment of individual donors to come home to roost.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend #bullypulpit
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No invitations to “special members events” ever. Naturally, social media delivers member party photos to me after the fact.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend #bullypulpit
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No publications since 2002. No printed calendars since 2009. No free admission since the mid-2000s.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend #bullypulpit
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In 1993 I gave #sfcinematheque $1500 ($3312 in 2025 dollars according to NerdWallet) to be a #lifetimemember. #StevePolta denied my annual publications benefit starting 2002 & eventually whittled all promised benefits to zero.
#experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend #bullypulpit
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Weds, 10 Sep 2025. Eight days and 350 miles ago.
By day, I spoke to a class + a less formal group at Penn State's Geography Department. By night, I performed at Manny’s Performance Space.
Kris Pylant was along for the ride, asked what would be useful to me. I said: hands + iPad, projected map in the background. Kris nailed it.
#ASynesthetesAtlas #maps #cartography #improvisation #OpenStreetMap
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Don't know the next time I (10 Sep) will appear on the same calendar as Jonathan Richman (21 Oct).
I do know I'm performing at #RhizomeDC tomorrow night (15 Sep) on a split bill with guitarist #IvanLiptak.
https://www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2025/9/15/eric-theise-a-synesthetes-atlas-ivan-liptak
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Next stop on my #ASynesthetesAtlas tour is #DC! I'm splitting Monday's #RhizomeDC bill w/guitarist #IvanLiptak; we'll each do a solo set, then come together at evening's end for a collaborative improvisation.
Hope to meet some of you there and, of course, appreciate your help in getting the word out!
https://www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2025/9/15/eric-theise-a-synesthetes-atlas-ivan-liptak
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I find myself having to switch git branches between pieces during a performance. Conceptually it's equivalent to retuning or fitting a capo to a guitar but the consequences when it's done wrong are far more catastrophic.
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Making my way east from Pittsburgh and, after speaking to geography classes at Penn State today I'll be presenting A Synesthete's Atlas tonight at Manny's Performance Space in State College, Pennsylvania.
7p
101 Hiester St#ASynesthetesAtlas
@mannysperformancespace @gorintoproductions
#experimental #improvisation #expandedCinema
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I gave a performance of A Synesthete's Atlas last night with The Hut Improvisers in Columbus, Ohio, thanks to the Fuse Factory. Tristan L. Turner, seated behind me, shared this excerpt.
I often call up the hyperdesigned street grid of the Argentinian capital, La Plata … here it's partially obscured with place of interest names rendered in a redaction script.
#ASynesthetesAtlas #Columbus
#FuseFactory #TheHutImprovisers
#maps #cartography #improvisation #OpenStreetMap
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I'll perform A Synesthete's Atlas in Columbus, Ohio, this coming Saturday evening (30 Aug 2025). Collaborating with The Hut Improvisers, one of whom plays cimbalom (!).
https://thefusefactory.org/event/performance-eric-theise-cox-ensemble/
#ASynesthetesAtlas #TheHutImprovisers #TheFuseFactory #Columbus #Ohio #maps #cartography #improvisation #expandedCinema #OpenStreetMap
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Tonight! Collaborating with Abigail Hinson and Matt Ingalls, sharing the bill with a trio of Ben Davis, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Larry Ochs.
7:15
Paul Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar St @ West Grand
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11 Jul 2025: #EdaEr / #Klank.ist's #SonicGeographies @ 2727, Berkeley.
For my AI-assigned trio w/ #GeorgePapajohn (clarinet) & #BrendanLai-Tong (trombone) I replayed GPS traces of wanderings around Twin Peaks, through Grace Cathedral's labyrinth, & Oslo. Sound courtesy #PetraZélie.
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Second of four local performances: Sat 26 Jul, #CenterForNewMusic. 1½ blocks from Powell Muni/BART, San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
#ASynesthetesAtlas is usually 1 or 2 long, structured, collaborative improvisations but this show will feature shorter compositions, solo (well, maybe a guest or two), and, for one piece, the debut of a map-based (naturally) invented instrument.
This will likely be the only performance in SF proper this year.
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Kerouac's #DharmaBums got me interested in mountains & wilderness, Sierra Club got me out into it: first as Service Trip participant, then as cook, ultimately paving the way for my move to San Francisco.
Canon AE-1 selfie taken atop California's Matterhorn late summer 1989 after dropping cookset in Yosemite. Peak figures prominently in Dharma Bums & a weatherproof canister holds a logbook of people similarly inspired to climb.
Only period where I sported facial hair.
Scan by Photoworks SF.
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On the food front, this weekend's about grilling burgers & hot dogs but I couldn't shake a video of anchovies caught in the Bay out of my mind. Implausible to say that making #boquerones is back-breaking work but standing at the sink for two hours removing heads, guts, and spines from the fillets did deter me from making any for years. A stool was acquired at #Minimo's liquidation sale, vastly improving the ergonomics.
The recipe is #HankShaw's: https://honest-food.net/boquerones-recipe-anchovies/
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20/21 is WTUL’s program of contemporary classical & experimental music. Tonight hear DJ Pennebaker’s interview w/Carl Stone & me in advance of our 5 Apr New Orleans gig.
8p-12a Central/1-5a UTC, interview begins an hour in, Carl’s music throughout.
https://www.wtulneworleans.com/
#ASynesthetesAtlas
#CarlStone #WTUL #20/21
#experimental #improvisation #expandedCinema
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g
#SilverCityGrocery #NewOrleans #NOLA -
I've been to New Orleans many times in my life but not since Hurricane Katrina. Remedying that by kicking off my next tour with an April Fool's Day lecture at Tulane's Howard-Tilton Memorial Library & an Apr 5th performance w/laptopist Carl Stone at Silver City Grocery in Algiers Point.
Carl opens the evening with a solo set; the collaboration follows.
RSVP: https://tulane.libcal.com/event/14389224
#ASynesthetesAtlas #CarlStone
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I'll be collaborating on a performance of A Synesthete's Atlas with Adriana Camacho, contrabass & electronics, at La Cueva in Mexico City this Friday, 7 March 2025; 8p. It's a "pay what you will" show.
Serapio Rendon 8
San Rafael
Ciudad de MéxicoMore details at https://expcinema.org/site/en/events/synesthetes-atlas-cartographic-improvisations-between-eric-theise-and-adriana-camacho or https://osmcal.org/event/3581/
#AdrianaCamacho #bass
#experimental #improvisation #expandedCinema
#CDMX
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g
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Back to the born-digital … for the first of my two #Guadalajara / #GDL #ASynesthetesAtlas performances this week I’ll collaborate with Maria Del Carmen Camarena, voice; Eliud Ernandes, bass & electronics; & Gustavo Larroyo, guitar. @ #Jupiterfab, C. Americana.
#experimental #improvisation #expandedCinema
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Footage from Gutterball, a piece I made at the request of #DylanBolles, #NathanLynch, & #MichaelBarthMeyers in 2002 at #HeadlandsCenterForTheArts, features prominently in this teaser for FROWNLAND, the six-film program curated by Stefano Miraglia for Chute Film Coop (Den Haag/Istanbul) that launches today.
#FROWNLAND
#StefanoMiraglia #ChuteFilmCoop
#EricTheise #BramRuiter #BenBalcom
#EmilyChao #AssiaPiqueras
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I’ve devoted myself to the born-digital since realizing I could make satisfyingly experimental work using the same technologies I use in my “day job” but it’s going to be a high point of 2025 that two of my analog pieces will bracket FROWNLAND, a six-film program curated by Stefano Miraglia for Chute Film Coop (Den Haag/Istanbul).
Details to follow.
#FROWNLAND
#StefanoMiraglia #ChuteFilmCoop
#EricTheise #BramRuiter #BenBalcom
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I'll be exhibiting the screenprinted maps I made during my residency at AGA LAB alongside works by fellow AiRs Clara Arámburo & Nina Djekić this Thursday from 17:00-19:00.
De Bouwput
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74
Amsterdam#DeBouwput #AGA_LAB
#printmaking #silkscreen
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #FOSS4G
#ASynesthetesAtlas #IfMaps
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Edward Schocker & I travelled to Den Haag yesterday for Raw Dates Sessions #11, the gathering of improvising musicians, writers, & dancers I was so enthusiastic about last month.
Participants pull colored discs out of a bag to form duos, trios, & quartets. "Yellow, you're on!" Marianna Maruyama, Sigrid Sand Angelsen, & Silvia De Teresa Navarro were at #10 so they were familiar with my projections and we just launched into it.
We'll call this one #ASynesthetesAtlas-adjacent.
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Setting up for tonight's performance w/Edward Schocker @ De Bouwput. "Anarchy in a white cube", pah, gallerists Marnix & Peim have been super helpful birthing this show.
Some kitchen glass & metal made the cut & will join Edward's wind instruments.
Doors 19:30, perf 20:00.
Pay what you will.#ASynesthetesAtlas
#experimental #expandedCinema
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g
#music #improvisation #alternateTuning #piri #hichiriki #shō #foundObjects
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Eion Carey, darkroom manager & education coordinator, only works @ AGA LAB Fr & Sa so I asked for an early critique. Probing questions, productive discussion, helpful feedback/observations … invaluable.
First I've seen the baker's dozen + 1 maps I screenprinted together. Hard to wrap my head around it but I'm pleased with & humbled by how they all turned out. So many hours materials shopping, ink mixing, & dropping f- & s-bombs at the press.
📷: Emma Rivet
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Oakland-based #EdwardSchocker brings #piri, #hichiriki, #shō, & #foundObjects to our performance of #ASynesthetesAtlas–manipulated, projected maps–in #Amsterdam this coming Saturday. We've performed in loosely coupled ensembles before but this'll be our first duo.
19 Oct, 2024
De Bouwput
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74, Amsterdam
Doors open: 7:30p, performance: 8p
Pay what you will#experimental #expandedCinema
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g
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Add works on paper to the list of subjects I'll cover in my talk at @MaptimeAMS (#Maptime #Amsterdam) tonight: maps in performance, video, public art, & now screenprinting, which is why I'm here at AGA LAB.
Talk's at the TomTom offices. Three other speakers on the program, refreshments will be served. https://www.meetup.com/maptime-ams/events/301851869/ #ASynesthetesAtlas #IfMaps #AGALAB
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I'll speak about using maps in performance, video, & public art this Thurs, 19 Sep, @MaptimeAMS (#Maptime #Amsterdam) hosted by TomTom at their offices. Two other speakers on the program, quite different topics, should be good! boost if so moved, thanks. https://www.meetup.com/maptime-ams/events/301851869/ #ASynesthetesAtlas #IfMaps
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Fri @ State of the Map Europe ended w/a planetarium lightshow–Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here–at EC1, a former power plant. Research trip for me (dome projection!) + pleased that people who'd attended my talk imagined my maps in that space.
Also pleased w/the projector that kept dropping out, puncturing the illusion w/a fuzzy black rectangle. Similar to tile latency in this performance w/Sean Ocean @ Other Cinema.
#ASynesthetesAtlas #expandedCinema
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #SotMEu2024 -
You'd have to say that "State of the Map" is @openstreetmap's franchise for annual conferences. They exist by continent/region and you may recall that I travelled to Salt Lake City last month to talk about my practice at State of the Map US.
The recording of that talk's been published on YouTube. Amazing I got through a very dense deck in 15 minutes even with all the time-filling & embarrassing "um"s.
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Spent last Apr & May in Chicago after a performance at NU's Block Cinema. One of many screenings I attended while there was “Adwa: An African Victory” w/Haile Gerima in-person, which drew many Black activists and artists. Found myself sitting next to travis of ONO; told him I had photos of their Lakefill gig where he was playing on the hood of an old Impala. Finally scanned the negs.
Most likely 20 May 1984.
#ONOtheBand #NorthwesternUniversity #Lakefill #Chicago #TriX400
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Feeling great about the space for Sunday's performance of A Synesthete's Atlas at MING Studios here in Boise. Live cartographic improvisations with Krispen Hartung (guitar) and Aaron Davis (keyboard).
Plenty of floor space for dancing about geography.
23 Jun 2024
doors 6:30pm, show promptly at 7pm
420 S 6th St
Boise, Idaho#ASynesthetesAtlas
#KrispenHartung #AaronDavis
#experimental #expandedCinema
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g
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#UnpopularElectronics (#GinoRobair, #TomDjll) & I perform #ASynesthetesAtlas in the #WestOaklandSoundSeries tonight paired w/#AnnCalloway & #RichardMix performing Cage, Carter, Feldman, Poussin, more…
7p. #PaulDresherEnsemble Studio, 2253 Poplar St, Oakland, CA. $10-25 sliding scale.
#NewPerformanceTraditions
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g #trumpet #preparedPiano #JohnCage #MortonFeldman #HenriPousseur #ElliottCarter #improvisation #expandedCinema -
Final 2023 #ASynesthetesAtlas performance will be a "West" Bay collaboration w/saxophonist #JohnIngle in #OutsoundPresents' #LSGNewMusicSeries. Also:
#JohnDavis' #LoanAgreement: electronic (guitar) sounds & analog (16mm) visuals.
#DaveDeFilippo opens w/#ChangeOfUniform, a set of improvised computer music.We 6 Dec. 8p.
#LuggageStoreGallery, 1007 Market St #SanFranciscoCA
$10-20 sliding (NOTAFLOF)#expandedCinema #maps #cartography #improvisation #openstreetmap #foss4g
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In #Baltimore for @foss4gna. As conference complement I'll perform #ASynesthetesAtlas @ #RedRoom/#HighZero tomorrow/Monday night w/percussionists #DarienBaiza & #PaulNeidhardt. #MaxwellGong opens, trumpet & electronics.
Doors @ 8, show @ 8:30
https://www.redroom.org/cartographic-improvisations-between-eric-theise-and-darien-baiza-max-gong/Carshare arrangements being made via Whova.
Video excerpt from #FireMuseumPresents benefit in #Philadelphia w/ #ArcxTrio.
#expandedCinema #maps #cartography #improvisation #openstreetmap #foss4g
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In Pittsburgh for #NACIS; presented yesterday (12 Oct), performing tomorrow (Sat, 14 Oct) w/flutist Trē Seguritan Abalos, couldn't have done it without #PittsburghSoundImage. 8p (doors 7:30) @ #CreativeCoffeeAndSupply, 309 Smithfield.
Excerpt from last week's #RhizomeDC show w/#DarienBaiza, drums, and #AbeMamet, French horn.
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French hornist #AbeMamet joins drummer #DarienBaiza & me for #ASynesthetesAtlas tonight #RhizomeDC. #TangentUniverses opens w/synth+field recording+guitar explorations. doors @ 7/show @ 7:30.
The road to #NACIS2023 & @foss4gna.
#WashingtonDC #DMV #expandedCinema #maps #cartography #improvisation #frenchHorn #drums #openstreetmap
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You're encouraged to keep tabs on upcoming performances in #ProvidenceRI, #Philadelphia, and #WashingtonDC at https://erictheise.com/performances/ and note that none of these performances would be possible without #OpenStreetMap data, #OpenStageControl, and a host of other open source libraries.
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Taking my manipulated maps performance, A Synesthete's Atlas, on an extended East Coast tour that'll dovetail with #NACIS2023 #Pittsburgh & @foss4gna #Baltimore.Two imminent #PortlandMaine performances w/#TheAsthmatic aka #SigridHarmon:
Su, 1 Oct, #TheApohadionTheater. #KerryLaitala opens.
https://theapohadiontheater.com/Mo, 2 Oct, #USM's #RussellHallTheater. #OsherMapLibrary sponsored lecture/performance/Q&A.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-synesthetes-atlas-a-lecture-musical-and-moving-image-performance-tickets-726390602847#ASynesthetesAtlas #FOSS4GNA #improvisation #experimental #voice
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Manipulating projected maps tonight w/Tamarisk (Christina Carter, David Menestres, Andrew Weathers) at the storied Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, 926 E Center, #Milwaukee; Ghost Dance & Normal Rituals also on the bill.
8p/$10 NOTAFLOF/all-ages
Not really #ASynesthetesAtlas but def #OSM #FOSS4G #expandedCinema