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Eric Theise
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Performance cartographer, experimental filmmaker, software engineer; reader & writer, eater & drinker. A Synesthete's Atlas is my maps-as-expanded-cinema project, collaborating w/improvising musicians.

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Stoked to learn that I'll be part of the inaugural cohort (March 2026) of CAST (Contemporary Art & Sound Technologies), a new platform dedicated to supporting experimental creators working at the intersection of sound, music, and visual media.

#soundmap_ensemble #lulpercussion #dadageek #atx
October 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Story of The Map Center/Andrew Middleton where I'll perform w/Ed Osborn:

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Th, 25 Sep 2025
6:30p preception/7p show
$10 general/$8 students
NOTAFLOF

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#ASynesthetesAtlas
@mapcenter.com
#experimental #cartography #OpenStreetMap
September 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Favorite map of the trip … thus far.

Dish with a Map of Japan
1830-44
Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration

@ Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
10 Sep 2025. 8 days, 350 mi ago.
Class, informal group @ Penn State Geo by day; Manny’s Performance Space by night. Kris Pylant: what would be useful? Hands+iPad, projected map in background. Bingo.

#ASynesthetesAtlas #maps #cartography #improvisation #OpenStreetMap
www.geog.psu.edu/directory/kr...
September 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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. 

#ASynesthetesAtlas
September 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Next stop on my #ASynesthetesAtlas tour is #DC! Splitting Monday's #RhizomeDC bill w/guitarist #IvanLiptak; solo sets & we'll jointly improvise at evening's end.

Around for the weekend, you @geomantic8.bsky.social?

www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...

#maps #cartography #improvisation
#OpenStreetMap
Eric Theise - A Synesthete's Atlas / Ivan Liptak — Rhizome DC
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 le...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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
September 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
After speaking to geography classes at Penn State today I'll present A Synesthete's Atlas tonight at Manny's Performance Space.

7p
101 Hiester St

#ASynesthetesAtlas
@mannysperformancespace @gorintoproductions
#experimental #improvisation #expandedCinema
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g
September 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Tristan Turner shared some footage from Sat's Fuse Factory show w/The Hut Improvisers ( #Columbus).

Hey #Pittsburgh!
• Fri, 5 Sep: speaking @ Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
• Sat, 6 Sep: performing @ Glitterbox Theater

#ASynesthetesAtlas #maps #cartography #improvisation #expandedCinema
September 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Haven't encouraged people to sign up for my Occasional Missives; they've been too occasional for their own good. But sent one Sunday.

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August 22, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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
August 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
11 Jul 2025: #EdaEr / #Klank.ist's #SonicGeographies, Berkeley. For my AI-assigned trio w/ #GeorgePapajohn (clarinet) & #BrendanLai-Tong (trombone) I replayed GPS wanderings around Twin Peaks, through Grace Cathedral labyrinth, & Oslo. Sound: #PetraZélie. #ASynesthetesAtlas

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Sonic Cartographies II: Set I: Trio (A Synesthete's Atlas 037)
George Papajohn: clarinet; Brendan Lai-Tong: trombone; Eric Theise: map manipulations Trio configuration from the first set of Sonic Cartographies II 11 July 2025,…
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August 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
2nd/4 local shows: Sat 26 Jul, #CenterForNewMusic. 1½ blocks from Powell Muni/BART, Tenderloin.

#ASynesthetesAtlas is usually 1 long, structured, collaborative improv but this'll be shorter compositions, solo (maybe a guest or two), + an invented instrument.

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-synesthe...
A Synesthete's Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations by Eric Theise
An evening of cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated, digital maps in dialogue with composed and improvised soundtracks.
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July 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Been away–NL, BE, DE last autumn; MX, Louisiana, & Texas this year–so a bit sleepy about booking local performances.

Four lined up Jul & Aug, each different, the first:

11 Jul 2025
Sonic Cartographies II w/Klank.ist Collective
2727 California St @ Ward, Berkeley

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June 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Reposted by Eric Theise
All we want is healthcare.
June 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The Lab in the round tonight for Bill Orcutt's The Four Louies, a mashup of Steve Reich's Four Organs & Louie, Louie. Willie Winant, at center, above the cheat sheet, held the whole thundercloud together on maracas. Much fun, very glad I was packing earplugs.
June 1, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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.

Selfie atop California's Matterhorn late summer 1989. Facial hair: poor

Scan by Photoworks SF.
May 30, 2025 at 6:19 AM
People grill but I couldn't shake a video of Bay-caught anchovies from my mind. Dubious to claim boquerones are backbreaking work but 2 hrs of standing & gutting did deter me for years. Stool acquired at #Minimo liquidation = improved ergonomics.

#HankShaw recipe: honest-food.net/boquerones-r...
May 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Last week I noticed one vendor selling cherries at the farmers' market; this week there were three. Season's on and I'm celebrating with the first crumble of 2025: cherries w/tucked in tarragon, ¼ cup chopped pistachios added to the topping. Pitting's a fussy job but it smelled terrific as it baked.
April 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
April 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
April 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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.

www.wtulneworleans.com

#ASynesthetesAtlas
March 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Some shots from the first of Todd Haynes' appearances at @bampfa.bsky.social this weekend. A post-Safe conversation with his former teacher, Mary Ann Doane; series curator Kate MacKay cracking herself up over struggles with the word "physiognomy" in Doanes' bio.

Velvet Goldmine screens at 18:30.
March 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Performing A Synesthete's Atlas w/Adriana Camacho, contrabass & electronics: La Cueva, Fri 7 Mar 2025; 8p.

Pay what you will.

Serapio Rendon 8
San Rafael
CDMX

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#experimental #improvisation #expandedCinema
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g
#ASynesthetesAtlas
A Synesthete's Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations between Eric Theise and Adriana Camacho
Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, in collaboration with Adriana Camacho´s cosmic dance bass. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, w...
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March 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM