A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Edward Schocker
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
De Bouwput
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 geospatial software developer. Through video and realtime performance tools he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space movement, and 60's light shows, occasionally injecting letterform experiments inspired by visual poetry, as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography.
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 he co-founded Thingamajigs, a Bay Area arts and education organization devoted to alternate methods of creating sound and art. His 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.