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Any Similarity Purely Coincidental
Techno Goes Post-Classical
 
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In Village Voice, June 24 1997. Excerpt from full-page article on the interrelationship between Popular/Techno cultures and Classical composition... and with a big messy picture of me. - Terre

 

Terre Thaemlitz: perfectly post-classical, even riffing off Kraftwerk

....Terre Thaemlitz's Die Roboter Rubato (Mille Plateaux), on the other hand [unlike DJ Spooky/Paul Miller's revamping of 1960s musique concrète], isn't reminiscent of anything. Even though Thaemlitz came from the DJ world, the disc sounds perfectly post-classical, and the more refreshing because it isn't dragging along any diehard modernist assumptions. Thaemlitz uses heavily reverbed computerized piano to riff off of pieces by the techno group Kraftwerk; his whimsical tonal patterns hang in the silence, bouncing among recurring motives unpredictably, but with keen focus.

Those are my favorites of what I've heard....