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).
Krys Bobrowski: sliding speaker;
Eric Theise: map manipulations. Excerpt of the 40 minute improvisation that took place on 13 November 2022 at
Mosswood Sound Series, Oakland, CA. Thanks to Matt Ingalls of sfSound for presenting experimental sound, weekly, in this warm and welcoming venue throughout 2022. Thanks, too, to Conrad and Willis Meyers for the loan of the digital projector.