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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · 23d

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

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · 26d

Favorite map of the trip … thus far.

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

@ Philadelphia Museum of Art

front view of plate in plexiglas enclosure

side view of plate in plexiglas enclosure

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · 27d

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
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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Sep 14

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

Sep/Oct 2025 performance calendar for Manny's Performance Space, State College, Pennsylvania

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Sep 11

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?

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#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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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Sep 10

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

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Sep 10

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

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Sep 3

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A Synesthete's Atlas

An evening of experimental cinema, dance, and music

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Sep 3

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A Synesthete’s Atlas: Performing Cartography, an Artist Talk with Eric Theise – The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO For Creative Inquiry

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Sep 3

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

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Sep 1

Bollard Me, Worldbollardassociation!

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Aug 27

I'll perform A Synesthete's Atlas in Columbus, OH, this Saturday, 30 Aug 2025. Collaborating w/The Hut Improvisers.

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#ASynesthetesAtlas #TheHutImprovisers #TheFuseFactory
#cimbalom
#Columbus #Ohio
#maps #cartography #improvisation #expandedCinema #OpenStreetMap

Performance: Eric Theise + The Hut Improvisers | The Fuse Factory

The Fuse Factory is an art and technology initiative focused on cultivating artistic production, research, and experimentation with digital media and electronic tools.

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Aug 22

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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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Aug 17

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

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Aug 8

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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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Jul 5

This'll likely be the only #ASynesthetesAtlas performance in San Francisco proper this year.

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Jul 5

Visiting the Center last week I was disoriented to find that a new hotel's been constructed on Turk St between Market and Taylor, the walking route from Powell station; that stretch feels strangely scrubbed & sterile.

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Jul 5

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.

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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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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Jun 30

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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An abstract, globe-like form, overprinted with location information contained in the post

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Jun 1

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.

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · May 30

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.

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · May 26

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...

oiled anchovies with garlic, chile, and parsley

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Apr 27

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.

in-process photo of whole cherries in a sieve, pitted cherries in a baking dish, & a compost bowl containing pits & stems.

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Eric Theise @erictheise.com · Apr 12

#horned

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