8:00 pm Gonzalez/Ellestad, a genre agnostic improvising duoLenny Gonzalez - electric guitar/effects, Erik Ellestad - tenor saxophone
9:00 pm Eric Theise manipulating maps with special guest HeadboggleA Synesthete's AtlasReal time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, in live collaboration with the keyboard-based soundscapes of Headboggle. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Saturated colors. The subtlest of tints. Glitches in crowdsourced data. Jittery zooms and pans. Orphaned information and free-floating symbology.
Since its Lisbon premiere in April 2022, A Synesthete's Atlas has been performed in a dozen-plus US cities in collaboration with improvising musicians, movement- and spoken word artists. Theise's projection platform is based on OpenStreetMap data, a collection of open source mapping libraries, and a few thousand lines of his own JavaScript code.
The performance will last 40 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers.
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video and realtime performance tools he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers and the Light and Space movement, occasionally incorporating letterform experiments inspired by concrete poetry, as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography.
Derek Gedalecia's Headboggle project, active since 2006, has been performing electronic keyboard-based soundscapes around the Bay Area and around the U.S. The project incorporates art, music, and comedy into a modern electronic form.
A Synesthete's Atlas: René Levasseur Island from Eric Theise on Vimeo.
$10-20 sliding (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Masks welcome indoors.
Vaccination and booster shots highly recommended.
If you feel ill, please do not attend.
Cost: $10-20 sliding