Eight Stories High, Comically Lo-Res, Visible for Twenty Miles: Spiraling Maps Atop Salesforce Tower
Hosted by the UC Berkeley GIS & Mapping Community of Practice and the Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (CNMAT). Lecture plus collaboration with composer/multi-instrumentalist Mat Muntz on primorski meh (Croatian bagpipe) and electronics.
Theise will talk about his influences, the crowdsourced data and open source technologies he uses, the challenges of designing for a determinedly low resolution yet enormous, wraparound display, and the joys of collaborating with musicians/sound designers using a wide variety of instrumentation. Because his platform would not exist without Open Sound Control, a protocol created at CNMAT in 1997, he'll go into more detail than usual about his use of OSC (the protocol) and open-stage-control (Jean-Emmanuel Doucet’s open source software).
Mid-talk Theise will collaborate with composer & multi-instrumentalist Mat Muntz for a short improvisation on primorski meh (a Croatian bagpipe) and electronics.
https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/events/eight-stories-high-comically-lo-res-visible-twenty-miles-spiraling-maps-atop-salesforce-tower
Since its Lisbon premiere in April 2022,
Eric Theise has given thirty-plus performances of A Synesthete's Atlas–during which he manipulates projected digital maps in collaboration with improvising musicians–across North America. His Carto-OSC began life as a rapid prototyping tool for designing web maps but morphed into the platform he uses for real-time cartography and video creation. February found his single-channel work, If Map #5, appearing on the eight story high display that crowns San Francisco's Salesforce Tower, the second tallest building west of the Mississippi River. A series of performances within and beyond the Tower's viewshed continue through April.
Cost: free