#asynesthetesatlas — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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

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.

#ASynesthetesAtlas

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.
#improvisation #expandedCinema #maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap

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.
#improvisation #expandedCinema #maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap

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.
#improvisation #expandedCinema #maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap

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.
#improvisation #expandedCinema #maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap

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.
#improvisation #expandedCinema #maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap

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).

https://dadageek.org/cast

#ASynesthetesAtlas

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.

https://dadageek.org/cast #ASynesthetesAtlas

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.

https://dadageek.org/cast #ASynesthetesAtlas

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.

https://dadageek.org/cast #ASynesthetesAtlas

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.

https://dadageek.org/cast #ASynesthetesAtlas

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

https://www.geog.psu.edu/directory/kris-pylant

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

#ASynesthetesAtlas

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

#maps #cartography #improvisation
#OpenStreetMap

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.

#ASynesthetesAtlas

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
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g

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
https://www.instagram.com/tristanlturner/

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

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
Oakland

#WestOaklandSoundSeries
#ASynesthetesAtlas

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
Oakland

#WestOaklandSoundSeries
#ASynesthetesAtlas

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
Oakland

#WestOaklandSoundSeries
#ASynesthetesAtlas

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
Oakland

#WestOaklandSoundSeries
#ASynesthetesAtlas

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.

#ASynesthetesAtlas

https://vimeo.com/1102802854

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.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-synesthetes-atlas-cartographic-improvisations-by-eric-theise-tickets-1458598059059

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

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-synesthetes-atlas-cartographic-improvisations-eric-theise-carl-stone-tickets-1301811014789

#ASynesthetesAtlas #CarlStone
#maps #cartography @openstreetmap #FOSS4G

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 México

More 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
#ASynesthetesAtlas

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
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g

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
@MaptimeAMS

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.

#RawDatesSessions

We'll call this one #ASynesthetesAtlas-adjacent.

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.

https://debouwput.com/agenda

#ASynesthetesAtlas
#experimental #expandedCinema
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g
#music #improvisation #alternateTuning #piri #hichiriki #shō #foundObjects
#Amsterdam

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

#ASynesthetesAtlas #IfMaps

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
#music #improvisation #alternateTuning

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

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

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSHnXcmX7SA

#SotMUS2024 #ASynesthetesAtlas #IfMaps

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
#ASynesthetesAtlas

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
#music #improvisation #guitar #keyboard #piano

On Friday I'll speak @ #SotMUS2024/#SaltLakeCity about the latest of my #IfMaps; a 10 minute animation that looped atop SalesforceTower while I was February's Midnight Artist. Built with @maplibre + @protomaps + @openstreetmap.

Packing video as no support for an in-town #ASynesthetesAtlas performance ever materialized, remains to be seen if video projection is even an option for my talk.

#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.

https://sfsound.org/series/

#NewPerformanceTraditions
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g #trumpet #preparedPiano #JohnCage #MortonFeldman #HenriPousseur #ElliottCarter #improvisation #expandedCinema

#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.

https://sfsound.org/series/

#NewPerformanceTraditions
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g #trumpet #preparedPiano #JohnCage #MortonFeldman #HenriPousseur #ElliottCarter #improvisation #expandedCinema

#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.

https://sfsound.org/series/

#NewPerformanceTraditions
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g #trumpet #preparedPiano #JohnCage #MortonFeldman #HenriPousseur #ElliottCarter #improvisation #expandedCinema

#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.

https://sfsound.org/series/

#NewPerformanceTraditions
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g #trumpet #preparedPiano #JohnCage #MortonFeldman #HenriPousseur #ElliottCarter #improvisation #expandedCinema