" INTERSTICES "

CONCERT/VIDEO/PERFORMANCE
Terre Thaemlitz US/JP
   
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_LECTURE
   
31' sound in real player
   
   
 
_ON " INTERSTICES " (mille plateaux)
   

Terre Thaemlitz' newest electroacoustique release, "Interstices" (meaning, "small spaces or cracks between objects"), ostensibly presents itself as an album about process. In particular, the accompanying text discusses two processes called 'framing' and 'systolic composition.' In particular, this project is interested in using 'interstitial' sounds andcompositional processes as metaphors for cultural processes which exist between dominant binarisms of sexuality, gender and ethnicity. The compositions in "Interstices" raise issues of transgenderism (including intersexuality and transsexuality), Queer pansexuality, identity politics, and the essentialist dangers of the disenfranchised 'homecoming' fantasy.

_http://www.comatonse.com/listening/interstices.html