Terre Thaemlitz

Terre Thaemlitz

DJ Sprinkles
Background information
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. 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.[1][2][3] 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.

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 Thaemlitz's 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'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."[6]

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. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/25/dj-sprinkles-terre-thaemlitz
  6. ↑ http://www.comatonse.com/writings/nuisance.html
  7. ↑ http://www.juno.co.uk/products/dj-sprinkles-mark-fresh-insights-ep-1/561031-01/


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