[microsound] [Sydney] Terre Thaemlitz Lecture at UTS, Wednesday June 9

[shannon o'neill <alias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

TERRE THAEMLITZ LECTURE AT UTS

2pm, Wednesday June 9
Lecture Theatre 3.510
Level 5, Building 3 ('Bon Marche', cnr Harris St & Broadway)
University of Technology, Sydney
Free - All welcome!

Terre Thaemlitz (USA/Japan) is an award winning multi-media producer,
writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the
Comatonse Recordings record label. For the better part of a decade, Terre
Thaemlitz has been at the beating heart of electro-acoustic and computer
based musics, completing a role as one of the central figures of the
ambient scene of the mid-nineties.

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.

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.

At UTS, Terre Thaemlitz will be speaking on the subject of gender and
sexuality in contemporary electronic music:

 The concern of how to increase the number of women and transgendered people
 producing electronic music is like the question of how to increase
 women-produced pornography... there are some cultural spheres in which
 'equal representation' will never exist on a material level, and
 acknowledging this is not conceding to defeat. Within such a tangential and
 specialized field as Computer Music, is there a cultural need for more
 women and transgendered producers? Does academia and the music
 marketplace's liberal-minded need to 'include' and 'represent' such
 producers inspire or tokenize our activities? What practices have we
 developed outside of academia and the music marketplace? Given that most
 gender discussions are dominated by 'women's issues,' and that strategies
 of gender representation vastly differ between women and transgendered
 people, what aliances and frictions exist between women and transgendered
 producers? How is Computer Music a suitable medium for discussing any of
 these questions in the first place?

Presented by Media Arts and Production, Faculty of Humanities & Social
Sciences, UTS.

Terre Thaemlitz is in Australia to present his Lovebomb performance.

Tour Dates:

Thursday June 10 - Disorientation - Sydney
Saturday June 12 - Fabrique, Brisbane Powerhouse - Brisbane
Friday June 18 - Kaleide Theatre, RMIT ­ Melbourne

Award winning multi-media producer, theorist, public speaker, educator and
DJ Terre Thaemlitz will debut Lovebomb - his latest multimedia performance
work and released on Mille Plateaux ­ in Australia this month.

Starting with an introductory explanation of the main theme, the Lovebomb
audio/video performance will conclude with audience questions and
discussion.

Sydney show:
LOVEBOMB
Thursday 10 June, 8pm. $10 donation.
Lanfranchi's Memorial Discotheque
2/144 Cleveland St Chippendale, Sydney
Supports: Pimmon, Donna Hewitt & Julian Knowles, Team Australia
http://aliasfrequencies.org/disorientation/

Brisbane show:
LOVEBOMB
Saturday 12 June, 9.30pm
Fabrique
Spark Bar
Brisbane Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts
119 Lamington Street
New Farm, Queensland
http://www.room40.org/events

Melbourne show:
LOVEBOMB
Friday 18 June, 7pm.
Kaleide RMIT Union Theatre
360 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Tickets: $15/$12 + bf.  Pre-sales available from Synaesthesia.
t. 03 9663 3551
A limited number of tickets will be available on the night.
Supports: Antediluvian Rocking Horse with visuals by Emile Zile.
http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au



---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: microsound-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: microsound-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
website: http://www.microsound.org