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.
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).
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.
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
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
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
Monday September 15 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS A Synesthete's Atlas is Eric Theise 's performance cartography project. It's maps as experimental film, as environment, as light show with letterform experimentation. What began life as a rapid prototyping design tool evolved into a platform
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.
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
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