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Terre Thaemlitz is an award winning multi-media producer,
writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the Comatonse
Recordings record label. His 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' wide range
of production styles, which include electroacoustic computer music, club
oriented deep house, digital jazz, ambient, and computer composed neo-expressionist
piano solos. Accordingly, his audio projects have found release on an eclectic
variety of record labels ranging from the Deleuze-influenced label Mille
Plateaux, to YMO founder Haruomi Hosono's Daisyworld Discs, to Bill Laswell's
Subharmonic Records, to Universal Music Germany's Classical Division, to
the UK dance label Disorient, and so on. Graphic design, photography, illustration,
text and video also play an important part in Thaemlitz' projects. His writings
on music and culture have been published internationally in a number of books,
academic journals and magazines. As a speaker and educator on issues of non-essentialist
transgenderism and Queer theory, 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 his current residence in Kawasaki,
Japan.
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