Terre Thaemlitz

Terre Thaemlitz
Also known as Miss Take
DJ Sprinkles
K-S.H.E
Born 1968
Minnesota, U.S.
Genres Ambient
Avant-garde
Glitch
House
Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician
Artist
Queer philosopher
Labels Comatonse Recordings
Mille Plateaux
Instinct
Associated acts Mark Fell
Website Terre Thaemlitz

Terre Thaemlitz is a musician, public speaker, and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. Her work critically combines themes of identity politics - including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race - with an ongoing critique of the socio-economics of commercial media production.[1][2][3] This diversity of themes is matched by Thaemlitz' wide range of production styles, which include electroacoustic computer music, club-oriented deep house, digital jazz, ambient, and computer-composed neo-expressionist piano solos. Graphic design, photography, illustration, text and video also play a part in Thaemlitz' projects.

Activism

As a speaker and educator[4] on issues of non-essentialist transgenderism and pansexual Queer sexuality, Thaemlitz has participated in panel discussions throughout Europe and Japan, as well as held numerous cross-cultural sensitivity workshops at Tokyo's Uplink Factory, near her current residence in Kawasaki, Japan.

Terre Thaemlitz's Soil[5] and Tranquilizer releases in the early and mid-1990s served to introduce a "political" form of ambient music, continued in later releases such as Couture Cosmetique and Means from an End, which aim to recast the usually passive artist-listener-environment equation. Thaemlitz' colleagues in the political ambient music front include the sound activist group Ultra-red. Following their remixes of Thaemlitz' Still Life with Numerical Analysis in 1998, Ultra-red joined Thaemlitz on the German label Mille Plateaux for their first two albums; Second Nature: An Electroacoustic Pastoral (1999) and Structural Adjustments (2000).

Discography

Albums

12" EPs

7" singles

DJ mixes

Collaborations

Internet-only releases

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Comatonse Records, Terre Thaemlitz released a free best-of compilation CD. Physical copies are no longer in print, but MP3s are available for free download (along with a bonus track that did not fit on the original release).

Radio dramas

Germany: Hessischer Rundfunk Radio, Channel HR2, Frankfurt M, 2004. Premier airdate November 17, 2004. Hörspiel, Redaktion: Manfred Hess. Also released on CD (Portugal: Grain of Sound/Base Recordings, 2005, GOS018/BRCD00505).

The Laurence Rassel Show (with Laurence Rassel), (Germany: Hessischer Rundfunk Radio, Channel HR2, Frankfurt M, 2006). Premier airdate April, 2006. Hörspiel, Redaktion: Manfred Hess.

Filmography

Italy: .::invernomuto::., 2005, Issue 3. Audio and photography.

Written, directed, filmed and edited by Terre Thaemlitz. Originally released on VHS (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2003, V.002). In English and Japanese. Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005/2003, D.001.NTSC | D.001.PAL.

Written, directed, filmed and edited by Terre Thaemlitz. Commissioned by Lovebytes and funded by the Arts Council of England. Released with "Silent Passability" on DVD (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005, D.000.NTSC). Originally released on VHS (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2001, V.001) and DVD ("Volatile Media," UK: Lovebytes, 2002, DSP2). Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005/2001, D.000.NTSC.

Written, directed, filmed and edited by Terre Thaemlitz. Released with "Interstices" on DVD (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005, D.000.NTSC). Originally released on VHS (US: Comatonse Recordings, 1997, V.000). Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005/1997, D.000.NTSC.

Directed by Iara Lee, produced by George Gund III, (US: Caipirinha Productions, 1998). Interview.

Directed by Ninon Liotet and Olivier Schulbaum, (Germany: ZDF 2002). Interview and music.

Directed by Iara Lee, produced by George Gund, (US: Caipirinha Productions, 1995). Three tracks featured on soundtrack. Sound engineering for trailer.

Awards

Interviews

References

  1. ↑ http://www.factmag.com/2014/01/30/the-essential-terre-thaemlitz/
  2. ↑ http://hyponik.com/features/grey-zone-dj-sprinkles/
  3. ↑ http://thequietus.com/articles/09107-terre-thaemlitz-interview-soulnessless-dj-sprinkles
  4. ↑ http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/terre-thaemlitz-deep-thoughts
  5. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/25/dj-sprinkles-terre-thaemlitz
  6. ↑ http://www.juno.co.uk/products/dj-sprinkles-mark-fresh-insights-ep-1/561031-01/

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