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writings

  This page is a repository for texts discussing strategies for the social application of sound and the politicization of Electroacoustic music (although it has lately become a general dumping ground for Terre Thaemlitz' published writings on a wide variety of subjects).

Please submit texts for inclusion on this page to Terre at info@comatonse.com.


  featured writers
Hannah Bosma
Christopher Penrose
Terre Thaemlitz・日本語
Ultra-red



Hannah Bosma

Hannah Bosma is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Her works focus on issues of gender and audio.

Female Authorial Voices In Electrovocal Music
Authorship and female voices in electrovocal music

Gender and Electronic Music

Male and Female Voices in Computer Music

Who Makes Electronic Music?
Vocalists, composers, gender and electronic music technology

 

Christopher Penrose

Christopher Penrose is a musician currently residing in Japan.

Against Music
The Prix Ars Electronica (98)

 

Terre Thaemlitz

If you are at this web site and still do not know who I am, please refer to my personal home page.

2009

Death In Europe
Reflections on Oscar Wilde's tomb and Michael Jackson

Originally posted on comatonse.com June 27, 2009.

2008

Homosaywhat
In Response To The Pope's Rant On Gender Forests Something...

Originally posted on comatonse.com Christmas Eve, December 24, 2008.

DJ Sprinkles: Midtown 120 Blues / ミッドタウン120ブルース
・日本語 (In English and Japanese) Originally posted on comatonse.com August 2008. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Japan: Mule Musiq, 8/2008), MMD7.

メタファーとしての音
サンプリングと意味
・日本語 (In Japanese) Originally posted on comatonse.com August, 2008. CCJP iSummit08のサンプリング・ワークショップの講演録(札幌コンベンションセンター、2008年7月31日)。

Please tell my landlord not to expect future payments because Attali's theory of surplus-value-generating information economics only works if my home studio's rent and other use-values are zero.
Originally posted on comatonse.com August, 2008. First presented at "Non-Simultaneity and Immediacy: Utopia of Sound," organized by Diedrich Diederichsen and Constanze Ruhm at The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, May 29-31 2008. To be published in "Non-Simultaneity and Immediacy: Utopia of Sound", ed. by Diedrich Diederichsen and Constanze Ruhm, (Austria: 2009).

Introduction to Nuisance
Originally posted on comatonse.com August, 2008 (written 2006/2007). Introduction to the forthcoming compendium of Thaemlitz' writings, "Nuisance: Writings on Identity Jamming and Digital Audio Production" (Germany: b_books, 2008, bilingual English/German).

2007

The Laurence Rassel Show / ザ・ローレンス・ラッセル・ショー
An electroacoustic radio drama about feminist anonymity, transgendered authorship... and murder.
・日本語 (In English and Japanese)Transcript & MP3 soundfiles of the radio broadcast produced for German Public Radio in collaboration with Laurence Rassel of Brussel's cyberfeminist collective Constant. The project combines original and liberated music with spoken word examining the gender politics of the copyLeft. An album so cutting edge German Public Radio banned it from broadcast. Also starring Tina Horne, Pierre De Jaeger, Nicolas Malevé, Femke Snelting, Marie-Françoise Stewart, Aiko Tsuji and Wendy Van Wynsberghe. Released June 1, 2007, by Comatonse Recordings (Japan: C.016.CD/C.016.EP), Constant vzw (Belgium) and Public Record (US: 2-01-014).
2005年に、トランスジェンダーであるTerreとベルギーを拠点とするサイバーフェミニストLaurence Rasselは、コピー・レフトと著作業に関する「The Laurence Rassel Show」というラジオ・ドラマを作りました。 もともとドイツの公営ラジオの依頼で作成されたのですが、内容に問題があるとのことで放送がキャンセルされました。 おかしなことは、そのラジオ局は、オーディオ・サンプルが使用されていることを全く気にかけませんでしたが、ペギー・フェラン、ジョーン・スミス、ミシェル・フーコー、ロラン・バルト他による原作者の「根源」と「張本人」のテーマについて書かれた哲学的なテキストの朗読が含まれていることを問題視しました。

2006

ENTHUSIASM!
On the theme of "Communism"

Originally posted on comatonse.com October, 2006. Excerpt of transcript to a radio performance that was part of a four-day series of broadcasts titled ENTHUSIASM!, on the theme of communism, at the Frieze Art Fair, London, October 13 2006. Curated by Grant Watson and Sarah Pierce for Resonance FM, 104.4FM.

2005

Trans-Sister Radio / トランズ・シスター・ラジオ
An electroacoustic radio drama about transgenderism and migration
トランズジェンダーの移住に関するエレクトロアコースティックラジオドラマ

・日本語 (In English, Japanese, German and Portuguese) Transcript to the radio broadcast, originally aired on Hessischer Rundfunk HR2, November 14 2004. CD co-issued by Grain of Sound and Base Recordings (Portugal: November 2005, GOS018/BRCD00505).

Making Friends at Assembly International
Originally published in "Assembly International," (Germany: b_books, 2005).

iPod is Raping the Rapists Who Raped My Village
An economic overview of contemporary audio production
El iPod está violando a los violadores que violaron mi pueblo
Una perspectiva económica de la producción de audio contemporánea
(In English, Español and Bulgarian) Originally published in "Zehar: Revista de Arteleku-ko Aldizkaria," (Spain: Arteleku, No. 55, 2005).

視力と聴力のフィルター
・日本語 (In Japanese) 「日本語教室文集2004」(日本:あいうえお会、2005年3月)

2004

Viva McGlam?
Is Transgenderism a Critique of or Capitulation to Opulence-Driven Glamour Models?
Viva McGlam?
Ist Transgender-Selbstdarstellung eine Kritik an oder die Kapitulation vor luxusfixierten Glamour-Modellen?
(In English and German) Originally published in "The Future Has a Silver Lining: Genealogies of Glamour," ed. by Tom Holert and Heike Munder, (Zürich: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst/JRP Ringier, Nov. 2004).

The Inner Sleeve (The Wire Magazine)
Artwork Selected This Month By Terre Thaemlitz

Originally published in "The Wire," (UK) Issue 239, January 2004.

2003

GLOBULE of NON-STANDARD
An Attempted Clarification Of Globular Identity Politics In Japanese Electronic 'Sightseeing Music'

Originally published in "Organised Sound," (UK: Cambridge University Press), April 2003, Volume 8, Number 1, pp. 97-108.

2002

Lovebomb / 愛の爆弾 (Ai No Bakudan)
・日本語 (In English, Japanese, German [excerpt], Italian [excerpt] and French [excerpt]) Originally posted on comatonse.com in August, 2002. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 1/2003) MP117.

2001

Oh, no! It's Rubato
Piano interpretations of DEVO titles

Originally posted on comatonse.com July, 2001. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 10/2001), MP103.

Operating in Musical Economies of Compromise
(Or... When do I get paid for writing this?)

Originally published in "Organised Sound" (UK: Cambridge University Press), December 2001, Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 177-184.

The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed On The Internet
Originally published in "Post-Techno(logy) Music," (Tokyo: Ohmura Shoten, 2001), pp. 181-186.

2000

Epiphanies (The Wire Magazine)
Terre Thaemlitz's heroes become zeroes after a mid-air collision with American nerds Cheap Trick

Originally published in "The Wire," (UK) Issue 193, March 2000.

Family Recipes
Recipes from the Thaemlitz, Tonda and Sames Families

(Mentioned in The New York Times.) In progress (comatonse.com).

I Am Not A Lesbian!
An official response to those three little words... "Are you Gay?"
私はレズビアンではない!
 ――「あなたはホモなの?」という素敵な質問に対する公式見解――
¡No soy lesbiana!
Una respuesta oficial para estas dos breves palabras... "¿eres gay?""
Ez naiz lesbiana!
Hiru hitz laburrentzako erantzun ofiziala... "Gay al zara?"
・日本語 (In English, Japanese, Español and Basque) November, 2000 (comatonse.com).

Interstices
Originally posted on comatonse.com October, 2000. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 11/2000), MP44.

Still
(In German) Originally published in "Camera Austria," (Austria) No.72, 2000, pp.88-91.

Text Alternatives
A collection of critical-minded short narratives and poems published as track descriptions.

2000 (comatonse.com)

1999

How MAD's Dave Berg And Roger Kaputnick Introduced Me To Post-Modern Theory
Originally published in "BoingBoing," January, 1999

On The Columbine High School Massacre
June, 1999 (comatonse.com)

Replicas Rubato
Piano interpretations of Gary Numan titles

Originally posted on comatonse.com August, 1999. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 9/2000), MP71.

Transgender Todschick
(In German) Originally published in "Kleine Zeitung," (Austria) No.12, October 1999, pp.21-24.

1998

Love For Sale
Taking stock in our pride

Originally posted on comatonse.com November 1998. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 1/1999), MP58.

Means From An End
Originally posted on comatonse.com August, 1998. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 1998), MP44.

1997

Couture Cosmetique
Transgendered electroacoustique symptomatic of the need for a cultural makeover
(Or... What's behind all that foundation?)

クチュール・コスメティック
・日本語 (In English and Japanese) Originally posted on comatonse.com March, 1997. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (US: Caipirinha Productions, 1997; and Japan: Daisyworld Records, 1997).

The Crisis of Post-Spectacle "Live" Contemporary Ambient Performance
(Or... Why I Can't Get Paid to DJ A-structural Audio)

April, 1997 (comatonse.com)

Die Roboter Rubato
Piano interpretations of Kraftwerk titles

Originally posted on comatonse.com May 1997. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 1997).

G.R.R.L.ifesto
Originally published with the album "G.R.R.L.," (US: Comatonse Recordings, 1997).

On Technology & Gender Confusion
1997 (comatonse.com)

Synthetic Pleasures 2
Originally published with the compilation "Synthetic Pleasures Volume Two," (US: Caipirinha Productions, 1997).

1996 & Earlier

Track Annotations 93-95
Miscellaneous comments about previously released audio

1993-1995 (comatonse.com)

 

Ultra-red

Ultra-red is an audio action collaborative based in Los Angeles, CA. Additional texts and project information are available at the Ultra-red homepage: http://www.ultrared.org/

Introduction
Noise and public space three years later

The Background Is A Front

Dead Rooms
From the death of ambient music to listening material

Entering A Public Space

On A Sound Body

On The Edge Of Music

Polit-Buro

Post Script To PS
Notes on space music

Sounding The Naked City
Toward a psychogeography of ambient sound

World Record
Globalism and the international ambient culture

Writing Ambient Music

 
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