Over the past quarter century, the Minnesota-born, Japan-based producer, composer and activist has taken on a multitude of genres and political causes - from ambient to jazz to deep house, music industry critique to queer theory - as well as gender identities (she alternates between female and male pronouns in her writing, and performs in "male drag" as alter ego DJ Sprinkles). This year's MaerzMusik provides an equally comprehensive spread of Thaemlitz's work, with four performances at the Festspiele and Martin-Gropius-Bau. As she pretty much lives off the grid in Kawasaki, we talked to her via e-mail before her long-duration stint at the contemporary music festival.
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Michael Hoh
Berlin
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