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Performance cartographer, experimental filmmaker, software engineer; reader & writer, eater & drinker. A Synesthete's Atlas is my maps-as-expanded-cinema project, collaborating w/improvising musicians. https://linktr.ee/erictheise
a bowl of the Liverpudlian favorite, scouse; lamb, potatoes, onions, turnips, carrots, & thyme, w/quick-pickled roasted beets on the side
From North Oakland, California, happy #GlobalScouseDay to all who celebrate.
I blurred my signature because it hasn’t much changed. The PO Box, the account, the bank: long gone. ISTR I had a Working Assets long distance phone plan, too, for my landline.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend
¹ we’ll get to the one exception.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend
People’ve deleted my posts elsewhere on this topic, blocked my account. All along, those in a position to address the issue¹ have resorted to hand-wringing & “oh, that’s a shame”.
Doubters: my check.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend
This former Board Member/President, program note compiler/author, monograph co-author, occasional curator & fundraiser, says: time for callous treatment of individual donors to come home to roost.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend
No invitations to “special members events” ever. Naturally, social media delivers member party photos to me after the fact.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend #bullypulpit
No publications since 2002. No printed calendars since 2009. No free admission since the mid-2000s.
#sfcinematheque #lifetimemember #StevePolta #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend
backside of the 1993 prospectus for #sfcinematheque membership showing member benefits at the $1,500 level to include, for life, copies of all publications, free admission plus reservation privileges for two people, first class calendar mailings, invitations to special member events, and occasional issues of the long-discontinued Cinemascope newsletter. Plus a one-time t-shirt designed by George Kuchar.
frontside of the 1993 prospectus for #sfcinematheque membership
In 1993 I gave #sfcinematheque $1500 (3312 in 2025 $) to be a #lifetimemember. #StevePolta denied my annual publications benefit starting 2002 & eventually whittled all promised benefits to zero.
#experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit #yearend #bullypulpit
Thanks, Json. You remind me of my campaig to change "break a leg" to "muita merda", a phrase I picked up from performers in Lisbon. It's said that it traces back to when people arrived at the opera by stagecoach: the more sh*t in the street in front of the theater, the bigger the audience.
CAST (Contemporary Art & Sound Technologies) 2026 Selected Artists Announcement
Selected Visual Artists: Krista Faist Britt Moseley David Sydiongco Eric Theise Jonathan Monaghan Shirley Steele
Selected Musical Artists: Carolina Carrizo Stylianos Dimou Rafael Godoi Haeun Park Mathis Saunier Shahrzad Talebi
Stoked to learn that I'll be part of the inaugural cohort (March 2026) of CAST (Contemporary Art & Sound Technologies), a new platform dedicated to supporting experimental creators working at the intersection of sound, music, and visual media.
#soundmap_ensemble #lulpercussion #dadageek #atx
event poster w/photos of Eric Theise & Ed Osborn, plus The Map Center's logo, laid over a non-traditional map of an area of Providence.
Story of The Map Center/Andrew Middleton where I'll perform w/Ed Osborn:
thepublicsradio.org/artscape/the...
Th, 25 Sep 2025
6:30p preception/7p show
$10 general/$8 students
NOTAFLOF
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-synesthe...
#ASynesthetesAtlas
@mapcenter.com
#experimental #cartography #OpenStreetMap
front view of plate in plexiglas enclosure
side view of plate in plexiglas enclosure
Favorite map of the trip … thus far.
Dish with a Map of Japan
1830-44
Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
@ Philadelphia Museum of Art
10 Sep 2025. 8 days, 350 mi ago.
Class, informal group @ Penn State Geo by day; Manny’s Performance Space by night. Kris Pylant: what would be useful? Hands+iPad, projected map in background. Bingo.
#ASynesthetesAtlas #maps #cartography #improvisation #OpenStreetMap
www.geog.psu.edu/directory/kr...
Sep/Oct 2025 performance calendar for Manny's Performance Space, State College, Pennsylvania
Don't know the next time I (10 Sep) will appear on the same calendar as Jonathan Richman (21 Oct).
I do know I'm performing at #RhizomeDC tomorrow night (15 Sep) on a split bill with guitarist #IvanLiptak.
#ASynesthetesAtlas
Next stop on my #ASynesthetesAtlas tour is #DC! Splitting Monday's #RhizomeDC bill w/guitarist #IvanLiptak; solo sets & we'll jointly improvise at evening's end.
Around for the weekend, you @geomantic8.bsky.social?
www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...
#maps #cartography #improvisation
#OpenStreetMap
I find myself having to switch git branches between pieces during a performance. Conceptually it's equivalent to retuning or fitting a capo to a guitar but the consequences when it's done wrong are far more catastrophic.
#ASynesthetesAtlas
After speaking to geography classes at Penn State today I'll present A Synesthete's Atlas tonight at Manny's Performance Space.
7p
101 Hiester St
#ASynesthetesAtlas
@mannysperformancespace @gorintoproductions
#experimental #improvisation #expandedCinema
#maps #cartography #OpenStreetMap #foss4g
Tristan Turner shared some footage from Sat's Fuse Factory show w/The Hut Improvisers ( #Columbus).
Hey #Pittsburgh!
• Fri, 5 Sep: speaking @ Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
• Sat, 6 Sep: performing @ Glitterbox Theater
#ASynesthetesAtlas #maps #cartography #improvisation #expandedCinema
Bollard Me, Worldbollardassociation!
I'll perform A Synesthete's Atlas in Columbus, OH, this Saturday, 30 Aug 2025. Collaborating w/The Hut Improvisers.
thefusefactory.org/event/perfor...
#ASynesthetesAtlas #TheHutImprovisers #TheFuseFactory
#cimbalom
#Columbus #Ohio
#maps #cartography #improvisation #expandedCinema #OpenStreetMap
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Tonight! Collaborating with Abigail Hinson and Matt Ingalls, sharing the bill with a trio of Ben Davis, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Larry Ochs.
7:15
Paul Dresher Ensemble Studio
2201 Poplar St @ West Grand
Oakland
#WestOaklandSoundSeries
#ASynesthetesAtlas
11 Jul 2025: #EdaEr / #Klank.ist's #SonicGeographies, Berkeley. For my AI-assigned trio w/ #GeorgePapajohn (clarinet) & #BrendanLai-Tong (trombone) I replayed GPS wanderings around Twin Peaks, through Grace Cathedral labyrinth, & Oslo. Sound: #PetraZélie. #ASynesthetesAtlas
vimeo.com/1102802854
This'll likely be the only #ASynesthetesAtlas performance in San Francisco proper this year.
Visiting the Center last week I was disoriented to find that a new hotel's been constructed on Turk St between Market and Taylor, the walking route from Powell station; that stretch feels strangely scrubbed & sterile.
2nd/4 local shows: Sat 26 Jul, #CenterForNewMusic. 1½ blocks from Powell Muni/BART, Tenderloin.
#ASynesthetesAtlas is usually 1 long, structured, collaborative improv but this'll be shorter compositions, solo (maybe a guest or two), + an invented instrument.
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-synesthe...
An abstract, globe-like form, overprinted with location information contained in the post
Been away–NL, BE, DE last autumn; MX, Louisiana, & Texas this year–so a bit sleepy about booking local performances.
Four lined up Jul & Aug, each different, the first:
11 Jul 2025
Sonic Cartographies II w/Klank.ist Collective
2727 California St @ Ward, Berkeley
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All we want is healthcare.
