A Synesthete's Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Edward Schocker
Doors open: 7:30pm, performance: 8pm
Pay what you will
Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, in collaboration with Edward Schocker's alternately tuned instruments and made/found objects. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Orphaned labels. Free-floating symbology. Redlined reverberations with redefined sonic roadmaps. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches from crowdsourced data.
The performance will last 45 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers.
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and freelance geospatial software engineer. His current practice combines strategies from experimental film & animation, the Light and Space movement, 60's light shows, and concrete poetry with open source software and open data to create digital maps that behave in ways never intended by their creators. He projects and manipulates these maps in performance with musicians and other time-based artists under the title A Synesthete's Atlas. Since its Lisbon premiere in 2022, Theise has performed in dozens of East Coast, West Coast, Midwest, and Colorado cities. Theise's earlier 16mm experimental films have screened across the United States and Canada, and in France, and he’s performed as a vocalist with the Cornelius Cardew and Long Tone Choirs in various San Francisco Bay Area locations.
Edward Schocker is a composer and performer who creates music with made and found materials and alternate tuning systems. He studied at Mills College, where he worked with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, and independently with Lou Harrison. During his time at Mills College, he co-founded Thingamajigs, a Bay Area arts and education organization devoted to alternate methods of creating sound and art.
Edward was artist in residence at the European Dance Development Center in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he took part in and conducted workshops on instrument building and composer-choreographer collaborations. Schocker also composed music for a UNESCO-sponsored work with Echo Arts, a large bi-communal project in Cyprus aimed at building understanding between communities in conflict.
Edward’s works have been performed at the Berkeley Art Museum, Stanford Lively Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Sacred and Profane Chamber Choir, Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra, and International House in Tokyo. As a performer, he has presented work at festivals around the world, including Internationales Klangkunstfest in Berlin, Soundwave ((6)), San Francisco International Arts Festival and Culture Station Seoul 284 in South Korea.
Currently, Edward is an ensemble member of the Thingamajigs Performance Group, creating works in a group process with Dylan Bolles, Suki O’Kane and Keith Evans.
