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

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