Real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps, in collaboration with local musicians or other time-based artists. Evenings of street grids, rivers, islands, and curiosities from the built environment. Saturated colors. Glitches in crowdsourced data. Orphaned information and free-floating symbology.

For a concise overview of this project – performance excerpts, technologies, motivations & inspirations – please watch my presentation at the 2022 North American Cartographic Information Society Annual Meeting.

• 23 Oct 2023
  with drummer Darien Baiza, others TBD
  Red Room/High Zero, 6950 Maple St NW, Baltimore, MD 

  Darien Baiza is an exploratory multi-percussionist, currently residing in the Baltimore area.

  
• 14 Oct 2023; 8p
  with Trē Seguritan Abalos
  Creative Coffee & Supply, 309 Smithfield St, Pittsburgh, PA 

  Trē Seguritan Abalos is a Filipina-American improviser and collaborative flutist with the Pittsburgh Sound Preserve. She collaborates with spoken word artists, beat makers, dancers, and visual artists.

  I'll be in Pittsburgh from 10-15 Oct, presenting at the NACIS Annual Meeting on the 12th, and elsewhere.

  
• 8 Oct 2023; 8p
  with multi-instrumentalist Jim Ryan and drummer Darien Baiza
  Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC

  Jim Ryan and Darien Baiza bravely volunteered to collaborate with me on the fourth incarnation of A Synesthete's Atlas in June 2022; I'm expecting we'll surpass the energy of that show.

• 5 Oct 2023
  with Ed Osborn
  TBD, Providence, RI

  Ed Osborn's sound art pieces take many forms including installation, sculpture, radio, video, performance, and public projects. His works combine a visceral sense of space, aurality, and motion with a precise economy of materials. Ranging from rumbling fans and sounding train sets to squirming music boxes and delicate feedback networks, his kinetic and audible pieces function as resonating systems that are by turns playful and oblique.

  
• 2 Oct 2023
  with The Asthmatic
  Russell Theater, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME 

  This evening features a presentation about my work, followed by a short performance and Q & A with The Asthmatic the day after our full-length performance at The Apohadion Theater (see below). The evening is sponsored by the Osher Map Library.

  
• 1 Oct 2023; doors: 7p, performance: 7:30p
  with The Asthmatic; Kerry Laitala opens
  The Apohadion Theater, Portland, ME 

  The Asthmatic (A.K.A. Sigrid Harmon) has been a fixture in the Maine underground music scene for ten years [now]. She is a self-described one-woman band/sound collage that utilizes vaudevillian stage theatrics, synthesizers, and avant-vocal singing styles to communicate. Her obsession with phonetics, cadence, the formation of thoughts and language has grown into a visceral performance style that strays from speech into what could be described as sounds only found in the animal kingdom.

  Kerry Laitala grew up on the Maine coast and considers her approach to making art–an array of media including films, videos, installations, photographic works, performances, and kinetic sculpture–a type of media archeology. She'll open tonight's program with a presentation of 16mm shorts.

  
• 17 Apr 2023; 8-10p
  with Tamarisk
  Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, 926 E Center St, Milwaukee, WI 

  Tamarisk is and will continue to be: Christina Carter, David Menestres, & Andrew Weathers. Additional performances by Ghost Dance & Normal Rituals (Eli Smith & Peter J. Woods).

  
• 13 Apr 2023; 3-4:30p
  solo (lecture & demo)
  American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 

  I'm honored to be speaking at the American Geographical Society Library. I'll present excepts of past performances, and talk about my motivations, inspirations, and technologies. This event will be presented in-person at the AGSL as well as online. If you wish to attend via Zoom, please register here to receive a link. For more information, email agsl@uwm.edu.

  
• 7 Apr 2023; 7p
  with multi-instrumentalist/composer Ben Zucker
  Block Cinema, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 

  Ben Zucker is a composer and performer whose work thrives on juxtaposition and speculation. He has contributed to experimental music scenes across North America and the UK with concert works, albums, scores for media, and frequent performances on brass, percussion, voice, and electronics. They currently live in Chicago, finishing doctoral studies at Northwestern University while working as a performer, teacher, administrator, and organizer.

  
• 5 Apr 2023; 7p
  with upright bassist Ari Smith
  Mills Folly Microcinema, Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S Livingston St, #100, Madison, WI 

  Ari Smith is an improviser, composer, and bassist active in the Madison experimental music scene, whose work draws on an academic interest in relational notions of agency, particularly with respect to technology and performance.

  
• 4 Apr 2023; 7p
  solo (lecture & demo)
  Sector67, 56 Corry St, Madison, WI 

  I'm going to give a ten minute presentation about my work during Sector67's monthly open meeting. Sector67 is a hacker/makerspace or, more formally, a non-profit collaborative space dedicated to providing an environment to learn, teach, work-on, build, and create next generation technology; including software, hardware, electronics, art, sewing, metalwork, apps, games, etc.

  
• 23 Mar 2023; doors: 7:30p, performance: 8p
  with Carl Ritger on prepared lap steel guitar & modular sampler
  Counterpath, 7935 East 14th Av, Denver, CO 

  Carl Ritger, fka Radere, is an improviser, composer, and sound artist hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Currently living and working on Colorado's Front Range, his work spans the shadowy gulf between drone, noise, and musique concrète, compositing guitars, electronics and location recordings into densely textured sonic environments. His recordings have been published via many independent labels, including Great Circles, Full Spectrum, Moodgadget, and Going In, among others.

  The evening will open with Jose Villarán reading from his recently published Open Pit.

  
• 18 Mar 2023; 8-10p
  with noise magician Brett Darling (aka Spider Lights)
  Noise Floor 8, Art Lab Fort Collins, 239 Linden St, Fort Collins, CO 

  Brett Darling, aka Spider Lights, is a Fort Collins based sound artist working primarily in the realm of modular synthesis and field recordings. Employing a variety of experimental techniques, Spider Lights takes sound out of context, feeds it to the machines, and transforms it into an infinitely undulating aural landscape for third-ear explorations.

  With additional performances by Healing and MisTimer.

  
• 12 Mar 2023; 7p
  with Bob Marsh's Spontaneous Combustion Arts Performance Ensemble (SCAPE)
  Blo Back Gallery, 131 Spring St, Pueblo, CO 

  Bob Marsh: Invading Space with Sound Line Color Words Shape Voice Motion since 1944

  
• 10 Mar 2023; doors: 6:30p, performance: 7p
  with cellist Daniel Zamzow
  Radical Open Science Syndicate (ROSS) and the Geospatial Centroid, Wolverine Farm Publick House, 316 Willow St, Fort Collins, CO 

  Daniel Zamzow is a musician and audio producer who most frequently performs on cello in collaboration with Cloud Cult, Tyler T, and Crispy Watkins. Daniel's career began in the Minneapolis music scene, and expanded to include years of work in community radio, podcasting, and music education. He now lives in Northern Colorado with his family of musicians.

  I'm honored that my March 9th noontime presentation in Colorado State University's Morgan Library, Room 203, is being billed as a Special Geospatial Centroid Event. I'll present excepts of past performances, and talk about my motivations, inspirations, and technologies.

  
• 2 Mar 2023; doors: 7:15p, performance: 7:30p
  solo
  Prelinger Library, 301 8th St (@ Folsom), #215, San Francisco, CA 

  This will be the first solo performance, with maps being manipulated to a soundscape inspired by the Library's cartographic and geographic holdings. Once you arrive, scroll left through the arrow keys to reach “Prelinger Assoc”, then press the CALL button to be buzzed up to the second floor.

  
• 1 Mar 2023; 8p
  with Headboggle
  LSG New Music Series, Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market St (@ 6th), San Francisco, CA 

  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.

  Sharing the bill with Gonzalez/Ellestad: Lenny Gonzalez - electric guitar/effects, Erik Ellestad - tenor saxophone.

  
• 13 Nov 2022; 7p
  with instrument builder Krys Bobrowski on Gliss Glass and Sliding Speaker
  sfSound's Mosswood Sound Series, Mosswood Chapel, 3630 Telegraph Av (@ 37th), Oakland, CA 

  Sharing the bill with pianist Anne Rainwater.

  
• 5 Nov 2022; 8p
  with Kevin Corcoran’s textural percussion & manipulated field recordings
  Other Cinema, ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia St (@ 21st), San Francisco, CA 

  Kevin Corcoran works with an open interest in sound as medium as it moves through contexts of music, art, communication and place. He improvises and arranges sounds and objects while collaborating across disciplines and borders.

  
• 22 Oct 2022; 7:30p
  with upright & electric bassist Liz Draper
  MirrorLab Studios, 3400 Cedar Av S, Minneapolis, MN 

  Liz Draper is fortuitously on break from touring with Low during the North American Cartographic Society's annual meeting and will join me in performance at the studio collective & programming space, MirrorLab Studios.

  
• 25 Sep 2022; 7p
  with oboist/composer Kyle Bruckmann
  Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 5th St, Oakland, CA 

  Oboist Kyle Bruckmann tramples genre boundaries in widely ranging work as a composer/performer, educator, classical freelancer and New Music specialist.

  
• 15 Sep 2022; 8p
  with composer/performer Carl Stone
  Indexical
  Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St. #119, Santa Cruz, CA 

  Carl Stone's Santa Cruz debut: new solo work in the first set, the premiere of our new collaboration in the second. Santa Cruz / Oakland trio MAXX GYORKEL opens with a new project. During his Bay Area visit Carl will also perform with Amma Ateria at The Lab as part of the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.

  
• 30 Jun 2022; 7:30p
  with multi-instrumentalist Jim Ryan and drummer Darien Baiza
  Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 

  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. While living in the Bay Area he formed Green Alembic, an eight piece chamber group that improvised to projections of art and poetry. Darien Baiza is an exploratory multi-percussionist who is currently residing in the Baltimore area.

• 28 Jun 2022; 8p
  with saxophonist/clarinetist/shakuhachi player Ned Rothenberg
  Millennium Film Workshop, 167 Wilson Av, Brooklyn, NY

  Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 40 years on 5 continents. He performs primarily on alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and the shakuhachi – an endblown Japanese bamboo flute. His solo work utilizes an expanded palette of sonic language, creating a kind of personal idiom all its own.

  
• 23 Jun 2022; 7:30p
  with saxophonist/flautist/composer Ken Field
  Mass Audubon Magazine Beach Park Nature Center, 668 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 

  Ken Field is a saxophonist, flautist, and composer. He leads the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, an experimental & improvisational brass band, and is a longtime member of the electronic modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. His solo releases document his work for layered saxophones and his soundtracks for dance and film.

  
• 21 Apr 2022; 8p
  with cellist/guitarist/vocalist Helena Espvall
  Hangar: Centro de Investigação Artística, Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12, Lisbon, PT  

  Helena Espvall is a Swedish-American musician noted for her participation in the post-millennial psychedelic folk and free improv scenes. Her early career included work with Arabian music ensemble Sumer and with Projektor 7, a silent movie orchestra formed by members of Swedish pop group Komeda. After relocating to Philadelphia she became a member of Espers and of The Valerie Project, and formed the duo Anahita with Tara Burke (a.k.a. Fursaxa). Collaboration with Masaki Batoh (of Japanese psych band Ghost) produced two albums released by Drag City. She has been a member of touring bands for Vashti Bunyan, Damon and Naomi, Ghost, and Marissa Nadler; she has made guest appearances on records by Bert Jansch, Arborea, and Charalambides, among others.