Premiere Night: CAST (Contemporary Art & Sound Technologies) 2026
Austin, Texas, United States
dadaLab
I (Eric Theise) was accepted into the inaugural cohort of CAST and was paired with composer Shahrzad Talebi. Line Upon Line Percussion Ensemble will premiere our collaboration which, like my A Synesthete's Atlas project, uses MapLibre, OpenStreetMap data via Protomaps, open-stage-control, and software of my own to create map-based animations.
This event is free and open to all.
CAST: Premiere Night is the culminating event of the inaugural CAST season, bringing together the full cohort of international artists selected to create new collaborative works for this special evening. Following a global call for submissions, the CAST panel chose six composers and six visual artists whose practices represent some of the most compelling directions in contemporary sound and visual media. Each composer was paired with a visual artist to form a collaborative team, and these pairs have spent months developing original works that receive their world premieres at this event.
Premiere Night features the debut of six new collaborative works by the following artist teams:
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Stylianos Dimou & Britt Moseley (with SoundMap Ensemble)
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Haeun Park & Krista Faist (with SoundMap Ensemble)
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Rafael Godoi & David Sydiongco (with SoundMap Ensemble)
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Carolina Carrizo & Jonathan Monaghan (with Line Upon Line)
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Mathis Saunier & Shirley Steele (with Line Upon Line)
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Shahrzad Talebi & Eric Theise (with Line Upon Line)
Together, these collaborations highlight the artistic vision at the heart of CAST. Premiere Night invites audiences into an evening of immersive performance, new artistic possibilities, and the future of contemporary audiovisual work.