A Synesthete's Atlas
An evening of real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by
Eric Theise, directed and accompanied by genre-trampling oboist
Kyle Bruckmann. Expect a visual wash of street grids, land masses, bodies of water, and curiosities from the built environment. Saturated colors and subtle tints. Sounds symphonic and screeching. The flicker film as wayfinding device. Orphaned information & untethered symbology. Crowdsourced data with Swiss precision, with glitches a kilometer wide. OpenStreetMap as light show.
This will be the first performance of A Synesthete's Atlas on the West Coast.
Masks are required for entry
Cost: $10-25 sliding scale (advance tickets available on
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
The premiere, at the 2013 Outsound New Music Summit, of Wrack ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (made possible by the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commissioning program).
George Papajohn: clarinet; Brendan Lai-Tong: trombone; Eric Theise: map manipulations.
Trio configuration from the first set of Sonic Cartographies II
11 July 2025, 2727 California, Berkeley, California