Album annotations, articles, essays, lecture transcripts and other texts by Terre Thaemlitz. Listed by date of publication (newest to oldest). Print-to-PDF any page on this website for an easy to read document with no background textures.
テーリ・テムリッツによるアルバム注釈、記事、随筆、講演転写、および他のテキスト。発行年代順にリスト・アップされています（新しいから古いまで）。

• Letter to Uwe Schmidt: Amidst Current Attempts at His Cancellation
  Letter sent to Uwe Schmidt, August 19, 2024. Posted with afterword on comatonse.com, August 28, 2024. (English)
   
  
• Music Nostalgia Website Revibed.com Revives Memories... of Digital Distributor Malpractice
  Once again corrupt online distributors sell my releases without permission and seek to exploit the Mille Plateaux back catalog. Originally posted on comatonse.com May 2, 2024. (English)
   
  
• Tranqulizer: 30th Anniversary Restored & Expanded Edition 1994-2024 / 30周年記念復元拡張版 1994・2024年
  Accompanying text to the thirtieth anniversary reissue of Terre's first full-length album, Tranquilizer (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2024), C.033. Originally posted on comatonse.com February 14, 2024. (English | 日本語)
   
  
• Letters to Texte zur Kunst: Synopsis of Events and Conclusions (Part III)
  A concluding look at the exchange between Texte zur Kunst and myself regarding their review of my exhibition "Reframed Positions," in which I was accused of "echoing unchallenged arguments of anti-trans* disinformation." Note: While this text includes a synopsis of events, it is not a synopsis of my previous letters to Texte zur Kunst. Each of the three texts I have written on this topic expand upon quite different ideas, and are best read in order. (Parts I & II are listed immediately below.) Originally posted on comatonse.com January 26, 2024. (English)
   
  

• Letter of Correction to the Editor of Texte zur Kunst: An Addendum to Terre's Previous Response to "Depresentation: Mine Pleasure Bouvar Über Terre Thaemlitz In Der Halle Für Kunste Lüneberg" (Part II)
  A correction to my previous letter of October 1 (immediately below), necessitated by identification of my specific comments which led to Texte zur Kunst's call for censorship. Reading the first letter before proceeding to this one is recommended. Letter sent to Texte zur Kunste (DE) and posted on comatonse.com, November 16, 2023. (English)
   
  
• Letter to the Editor of Texte zur Kunst: In Response to "Depresentation: Mine Pleasure Bouvar Über Terre Thaemlitz In Der Halle Für Kunste Lüneberg" (Part I)
  A response to Texte zur Kunst's review of my exhibition "Reframed Positions," in which the reviewer admonished curators for not actively censoring me during an exhibition-related talk. Letter sent to Texte zur Kunste (DE) and posted on comatonse.com, October 1, 2023. (English)
   
  
• Ukraine Club Culture's K41 Community Fund Openly Involved in Weapons Deals: ...and apparently no music press or record labels doing humanitarian relief charity releases for them find it noteworthy
  An analysis of the contexts around Western music media's silence on The K41 Community Fund procuring arms. Originally posted on comatonse.com January 26, 2023. (English)
   
  

• Grand Central Hotel
  ・グランド・セントラル・ホテル
  Script to the short film "Grand Central Hotel," directed by Serge Garcia, written by Terre Thaemlitz & Serge Garcia, story by Serge Garcia (US: Trouble Pictures, 2021). July 21-24, 2021 world premiere at FID 32nd International Film Festival Marseille, Marseille France.
  短編映画「Grand Central Hotel」（米国：Trouble Pictures、2021年）の脚本。 この映画のワールドプレミアは、2021年7月21〜24日に、フランスのマルセイユで開催されたFID第32回国際映画祭マルセイユで行われました。日本語版は、新井知行が翻訳した映画の字幕に基づいています。 (English | 日本語)
   
  

• Deproduction
  ・不産主義
  ・ΑΠΟΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΗ
  ・Deproduktion
  Originally posted on comatonse.com October 17, 2017. Accompanying text to the album Deproduction / 不産主義 (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 12/2017), C.027. 原文は、２９年１０月２６日、comatonse.comに掲載された。アルバムのテキストの抜粋文。不産主義 （日本：コマトンズ・レコーディングス、２０１７）C.027。翻訳：吉田泉。 (English | 日本語 | ελληνική | Deutsch)
   
  

• 「日本のクラブカルチャーの未来へ向けた声明文」への応答
  ・In response to the "Declaration On the Future Of Japan's Club Culture"
  Originally posted on comatonse.com June 23, 2015. (日本語 | English)
   
  
• The Revolution Will Not Be Injected
  Originally posted on comatonse.com June 19, 2015. To be read to Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (English)
   
  
• Replacing a Korg Polyphonic Ensemble FK-4 Pedal (DIN5 Connector) with an XVP-10 or Other Standard Expression Pedal (TRS Connector): For use with Polyphonic Ensemble PE-2000 (Volume) / PE-1000 (Traveler)
  Originally posted on comatonse.com January 3, 2015. (English)
   
  
• 2014 In Review
  ・2014 vu par Terre Thaemlitz
  ・2014年を振り返って
  Originally published in Playlist Society (FR), January 2 2015. (English | Français | 日本語)
   
  

• Social Media Content Removal Fail: YouTube videos "no longer available due to a copyright claim by Terre Thaemlitz"
  Originally posted on comatonse.com September 24, 2013. (English)
   
  
• Lost Techno-Pop Weekend in Rural Midwestern America
  ・Un cap de setmana perdut de techno-pop al Mig Oest rural americà
  ・Un fin de semana perdido de techno-pop en el Medio Oesterural americano
  Originally posted on Ràdio Web MACBA, May 29, 2013. This audio broadcast and accompanying text takes a listen to techno-pop of the seventies and early eighties as a brief yet deliberate interruption into the realms of pop, rock, soul and R&B. (Castilian | Catalan | English)
   
  
• DJ Sprinkles' Top 5 Studio Tips
  Originally published in Red Bull Music Academy Magazine (DE), March 19 2013. (English)
   
  
• We Are Not Welcome Here: Address for "Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness," Tate Modern, February 2, 2013
  Originally posted on comatonse.com February 6, 2013. First presented at "Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness," organized by Carlos Motta at The Tate Modern, London, UK, February 2, 2013. (English)
   
  

• "I once got in trouble." A Ground-Zero Essay on Bullying c.1985-86, Age 17
  Originally posted on comatonse.com April 17, 2012. (English)
   
  
• Memories of St. Petersburg's Anti-LGBT-Education Law Going Into Effect: "Soulnessless" on March 24, 2012, at Save Festival, Arma 17, Moscow
  Originally posted on comatonse.com March 27, 2012. (English)
   
  
• Mrs. Style Icon: Terre Thaemlitz on Akihiro Miwa
  ・ミセス・スタイル・アイコン:テーリ・テムリッツが美輪明宏を語る
  Originally published in Electronic Beats (DE), Issue 29, Spring 2012. 原文は、2012年春、ドイツの「Electronic Beats」誌29巻に掲載された。翻訳：吉田泉。(English | 日本語)
   
  
• Soulnessless
  ・「ソウルネスレス」ー魂の完全なる不在ー
  Originally posted on comatonse.com March 18, 2012. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 5/2012), C.020. (English | 日本語)
   
  
• Collateral Damage: Terre Thaemlitz
  Originally published in The Wire (UK), Issue 336, posted on thewire.co.uk January 17 2012. (English)
   
  

• Chantal Regnault: Voguing And The House Ballroom Scene Of New York City 1989-92
  Book review originally published in The Wire (UK), Issue 335, December 2011. (English)
   
  
• Terre interviews Terre: Attempting to answer common points of confusion
  Originally posted on comatonse.com October 20, 2011. Expanded December 24, 2011. (English)
   
  
• TML #25: Multi-channel audio work encoded for 47 channel The Morning Line Sound System
  Published in "The Morning Line publication box with Special Edition Vinyl," edited by Eva Ebersberger and Daniela Zyman (Austria: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary & Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2011) ISBN: 978-3-86984-242-4. (English)
   
  
• Helping Without Recompense: Against Music and Art Fundraisers
  Originally posted on comatonse.com March 22, 2011. (English)
   
  
• In defense of Tebbe Tubbitz: About the design of this website
  Originally posted on comatonse.com March 4, 2011. (English)
   
  
• DJ Sprinkles: The Mountain of Despair
  Originally posted on comatonse.com Januar 7, 2011. (English)
   
  

• The Beatport Incident: Unauthorized Mille Plateaux Back-Catalog Once Again Removed From Major Distribution Channels (Formerly: Mille Plateaux Back-Catalog Once Again Illegally Uploaded Into Major Distribution Channels)
  An open letter to the press sent July 31, 2010, upon discovering the old Mille Plateaux back catalog had once again been uploaded into major distribution without authorization. (English)
   
  
• All's In Order: "Out of Order" Fashion's Inability to Divest of Power
  Originally posted on comatonse.com January 27, 2010. First presented at "Out of Order: A Matter of Principle," organized by Andrea Sick and Dorthea Mink at HFK Bremen (Bremen University of the Arts), Bremen, Germany, January 23-24 2010. (English)
   
  

• "Becoming Minority" Guest Lecture #6: On Guattari and Deleuze's concept of "becoming-minor" vs. "becoming minority"
  World premiere of the video "Rosary Novena for Gender Transitioning" Originally posted on comatonse.com December 8, 2009. First presented at "Becoming Minority" lecture series at the Rietveld Academie of Art, Amsterdam, December 2, 2009. (English)
   
  
• Death In Europe: Reflections on Oscar Wilde's Tomb and Michael Jackson
  Originally posted on comatonse.com June 27, 2009. (English)
   
  
• スーパーデラックスでのライブにおけるスピーチ
  Originally posted on comatonse.com February 22, 2009. （Super-Deluxe、東京、２００９年２月２０日） (日本語)
   
  

• Homosaywhat: In Response To The Pope's Rant On Gender Forests Something-or-other...
  Originally posted on comatonse.com Christmas Eve, December 24, 2008. (English)
   
  
• DJ Sprinkles: Midtown 120 Blues
  ・ミッドタウン１２０ブルース
  Originally posted on comatonse.com August 2008. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Japan: Mule Musiq, 8/2008), MMD7. (English | 日本語)
   
  
• メタファーとしての音：サンプリングと意味
  First presented at Creative Commons iSummit 2008, Sapporo, July 31, 2008. 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）。 (日本語)
   
  
• 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. Published in "Non-Simultaneity and Immediacy: Utopia of Sound", ed. by Diedrich Diederichsen and Constanze Ruhm, (Austria: 2009). (English)
   
  
• 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). (English)
   
  

• 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. 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。 (English | 日本語)
   
  

• 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. (English)
   
  
• Text Alternatives: A collection of critical-minded short narratives and poems published as track descriptions
  Originally posted on comatonse.com in 2000, updated through 2006. (English | 日本語)
   
  

• Trans-Sister Radio
  ・トランズ・シスター・ラジオ
  An electroacoustic radio drama about transgenderism and migration. 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).
  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。 (English | 日本語 | Deutsch | Português)
   
  
• Making Friends at Assembly International
  Originally published in "Assembly International," (Germany: b_books, 2005). (English)
   
  
• 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
  ・iPod-ът изнасилва изнасилвача който изнасили моето село: Икономически обзор на съвременното аудио производство
  Originally published in "Zehar: Revista de Arteleku-ko Aldizkaria," (Spain: Arteleku, No. 55, 2005). (English | Español | Bulgarian)
   
  
• 視力と聴力のフィルター
  「日本語教室文集２００４」（日本：あいうえお会、２００５年３月） (日本語)
   
  

• 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?
  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). (English | Deutsch)
   
  
• The Inner Sleeve (The Wire Magazine): Artwork Selected This Month By Terre Thaemlitz
  Originally published in "The Wire," (UK) Issue 239, January 2004. (English)
   
  

• 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. (English)
   
  

• Lovebomb
  ・愛の爆弾
  Originally posted on comatonse.com in August, 2002. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 1/2003) MP117. (English | 日本語 | Deutsch (excerpt) | Italian (excerpt) | Français (excerpt))
   
  
• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
  Track description for remix of "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune," by Claude Debussy, published with the compilation Replay Debussy (Germany: Universal Music, 2002). (English)
   
  

• 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. (English)
   
  
• 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. (English)
   
  
• ベリー・ファッキング英会話
  ・Very Fucking English Lesson
  Originally posted on comatonse.com July, 2001. Texts from the performance series "Very Fucking Eikaiwa," at Uplink Factory (Tokyo) July 2001-July 2002. テリコ先生の名物！ 『ベリー・ファッキング英会話』とは、具体的な問題を提示しそれらを“極めてシンプルな英会話”を用いて学ぶ事により、文化そのものを深く理解していくというコンセプトに基づいて行われるイベント型ワークショップです。(English, 日本語)
   
  
• Eyes, Ears & Pups
  Originally posted on comatonse.com April 10, 2001. A visual essay focussing on children with eye and ear deformities, and the injured attack dogs who love them. (English)
   
  
• The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed On The Internet
  Originally published in "Post-Techno(logy) Music," (Tokyo: Ohmura Shoten, 2001), pp. 181-186. (English)
   
  

• Family Recipes: Recipes from the Thaemlitz, Tonda and Sames Families
  2000 (comatonse.com). Mentioned in The New York Times! (English)
   
  
• 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. (English)
   
  
• Interstices
  Originally posted on comatonse.com October, 2000. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 11/2000), MP44. (English)
   
  
• 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?"
  November, 2000 (comatonse.com). (English | 日本語 | Español | Basque)
   
  
• Still
  Visual essay originally published in "Camera Austria," (Austria) No.72, 2000, pp.88-91. (Deutsch)
   
  
• Why is Fagjazz Meaning?
  Liner notes from the album Fagjazz: Super Best Collection (US: Comatonse Recordings, 2000) C.007. (Engrish)
   
  
• The Story of Tebbe Tubbitz
  2000 (comatonse.com). The story of Terre Thaemlitz' homepage mascot Tebbe Tubbitz. (English, 日本語)
   
  
• SANRIOT.COM
  The domain sanriot.com was launched in 2000 as a division of Comatonse Recordings, and stayed online for ten years. An HTML visual essay on the commodification of Marxism and 'the Left,' illustrating Karl Marx and other communist icons in the style of Sanrio^TM (Hello Kitty, etc.). Over the years, Sanriot characters have been featured on T-shirts, album covers, event flyers, and in music magazines. (Navigation Hint: Within the SANRIOT website click on the blinking dot to return to this Writings directory.) (Engrish)
   
  

• Transgender Todschick
  Originally published in "Kleine Zeitung," (Austria) No.12, October 1999, pp.21-24. (Deutsch)
   
  
• 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, August 23 1999), MP71. (English)
   
  
• On The Columbine High School Massacre
  June, 1999 (comatonse.com). (English)
   
  
• A-Muzak
  Accompanying text to the 7-inch single of the same name (Germany: A-Musik, 1999), A-14. (English)
   
  
• How MAD's Dave Berg And Roger Kaputnick Introduced Me To Post-Modern Theory
  Originally published in "BoingBoing," January, 1999 (English)
   
  

• 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. (English)
   
  
• Institutional Collaborative
  Accompanying text to Terre Thaemlitz & Jane Dowe's collaborative album of the same name (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 9/1998), MPCD53. (English)
   
  
• 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. (English)
   
  
• DJ Sprinkles: Sloppy 42nds: A Tribute to the 42nd Street Transsexual Clubs Destroyed by Walt Disney's Buyout of Times Square
  Originally posted on comatonse.com August, 1998. Accompanying text to the vinyl EP of the same name (US: Comatonse Recordings, 1998), C.006. (English)
   
  

• 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
  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). (English | 日本語)
   
  
• 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). This text was originally produced in April 1997 for a collection of essays to be published by Mille Plateaux, but the book project was ultimately cancelled. (English)
   
  
• 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). (English)
   
  
• G.R.R.L.ifesto
  Originally published with the album "G.R.R.L.," (US: Comatonse Recordings, 1997). (English)
   
  
• On Technology & Gender Confusion
  1997 (comatonse.com). (English)
   
  
• Synthetic Pleasures 2
  Originally published with the compilation "Synthetic Pleasures Volume Two," (US: Caipirinha Productions, 1997). (English)
   
  
• Miss Take's Dragifesto
  Originally posted on comatonse.com in 1997 as the introduction text for Terre's press photo page. (English)
   
  

• Scores
  Originally posted on comatonse.com May 22, 1996. A collection of graphical 'music scores' from electroacoustic compositions. (English)
   
  
• Track Annotations 93-95: Miscellaneous comments about previously released audio
  1993-1995 (comatonse.com). (English)
   
  
• Soil
  Originally posted on comatonse.com 1995. Notes on the cover design of the album of the same name (US: Instinct Ambient, 1995) AMB:007-2. (English)
   
  
• Tranquilizer
  Originally posted on comatonse.com 1994. Accompanying text to the album of the same name (US: Instinct Ambient, 1994) EX-283-2. (English, Français)
   
  
• HIV/AIDS 101
  1993 (comatonse.com). (English)
   
  
• Comatonse Recordings Founder's Statement
  1993 (comatonse.com). (English | 日本語)