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Terre Thaemlitz
Terre Thaemlitz is a musician, public speaker, and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. Thaemlitz's 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. This diversity of themes is matched by Thaemlitz's 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's projects.
Contents
- Terre Thaemlitz
- Terre thaemlitz elevatorium sub dub remix
- Activism
- Albums
- 12 EPs
- 7 singles
- DJ mixes
- Collaborations
- Internet only releases
- Radio dramas
- Filmography
- Awards
- Interviews
- References
Terre thaemlitz elevatorium sub dub remix
Activism
As a speaker and educator 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 Thaemlitz's current residence in Kawasaki, Japan.
Terre Thaemlitz's Soil 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's colleagues in the political ambient music front include the sound activist group Ultra-red. Following their remixes of Thaemlitz's 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).
In 2015, Terre Thaemlitz published Nuisance, a collection of essays on identity and music. In the introduction, Thaemlitz writes, "My intention is to write in defense of pessimism, and to critically reject the incessant optimism lurking at the core of virtually all media, conferences, concerts, events and symposia - "critical media" or not."
Albums
Mule Musiq, 2013, MMCD41
Mule Musiq, 2008, MMD7
Mule Electronic, 2006, MED05
Comatonse Recordings, 2006, C.013.CD
Grain of Sound/Base Recordings, 2005, GOS018/BRCD00505
Double Disc DVD & Audio CD Re-issue
Comatonse Recordings, 2005, D.001
Mille Plateaux, 2003, MP117
Mille Plateaux, 2001, MPCD103/MPLP103
Mille Plateaux, 2000, MP94
Comatonse Recordings, 2000, C.007
Mille Plateaux, 1999, MPCD71 and MPLP71
Mille Plateaux, 1999, MPCD53
Mille Plateaux, 1999, MPCD53
Comatonse Recordings, 1997, C.003
Caipirinha Productions, 1997 (US)
Daisyworld Records, 1997 (Japan)
Mille Plateaux, 1997, MP34
Instinct Ambient, 1995, AMB:007-2
Instinct Ambient, 1994, EX-283-2
12" EPs
Mule Musiq, 2009
Mule Musiq, 2009, MM034
Mule Musiq, 2008, MM033
Mule Musiq, 2007, MM019
Mule Electronic, 2006, M025
Mule Electronic, 2006, M020
Mule Electronic, 2006, M019
Comatonse Recordings, 2006, C.013.EP3
Comatonse Recordings, 2006, C.013.EP2
Comatonse Recordings, 2006, C.013.EP1
Comatonse Recordings, 2004, C.000.R2
EN/OF, 2003, EN/OF 013
Hysteric Trace, 2003, INEX-002
Comatonse Recordings, 2002, C.010
Comatonse Recordings, 2001, C.009
Comatonse Recordings, 2001, C.008
Comatonse Recordings, 1998, C.006
Comatonse Recordings, 1998, C.004
Comatonse Recordings, 1997, C.000.R1 (Translucent vinyl re-issue of C.000 with previously unreleased outro "Pretty Mouth (He's Got One)")
Comatonse Recordings, 1993, C.000 (Contains "Raw Through A Straw" and "Tranquilizer.")
7" singles
Austria: Klanggallerie, 2003, GG73
Netherlands: Bottrop-Boy, 2000, B-BOY 003
Germany: A-Musik, 1999, A-14
DJ mixes
Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2003, DCM5
Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2004, DCM8
Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2004, DPP1
Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2004, DCM9
Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2004, DCM10
Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005, DCM14
Collaborations
France: La Louche qui Fait déborder le Vase, 2004, LOUCH 001
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.