Sunday October 8 * doors at 7pm, show at 730 * TICKETS
A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise, Jim Ryan, and Darien Baiza. Opening set by Tangent Universes.
Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with Darien Baiza, drums, and Jim Ryan, winds and small percussion. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Driving beats. Orphaned labels and free-floating symbology. Auditory roundabouts and redirections. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Sounds symphonic and screeching. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches in crowdsourced data. This performance 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. Theise's earlier 16mm experimental films have screened across the United States and Canada, and in France, and he’s performed as a vocalist with the Cornelius Cardew and Long Tone Choirs in various San Francisco Bay Area locations.
Jim Ryan is a jazz inspired, free-form multi-instrumentalist who has performed for several decades in Paris, France, the San Francisco Bay free improv scene, and currently in the Washington D.C. Area. He plays winds, brass, and small percussion.
Darien Baiza is an exploratory multi-percussionist who is currently residing in the Baltimore area.
Tangent Universes - Using field recordings, modular synths, a DIY Lyra-8, and guitar drones, Carolyn (Zaldivar) Snow (she/her) creates immersive compositions from her Mid-Atlantic context exploring collective memory in science and nature. Carolyn is a recent addition to the Mystery Circles label performing as Tangent Universes, and supports the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s Sound Scene Fest as part of the Creative Advisory Committee.