Terre Thaemlitz: I’ve really lost my sense of humor by living in Japan

"I’ve always been a very sarcastic person and sarcasm just does not fly in Japan because everything is taken with a kind of surface sincerity. I feel like I’ve really lost my sense of humor by living in Japan (laughter)" - Japan-based producer, DJ, and cultural critic Terre Thaemlitz says in a very interesting Tone Glow interview. She goes on to define her work: "I consider myself a cultural critic, I guess if I had to label it. When I do audio work or video I refer to myself as a producer, not in a capitalist, funding sense of 'produced by', but in the constructivist sense of production over creation. I see what I do as an act of cultural criticism, music criticism, and media criticism while operating from within". Also, end of June Resident Advisor will release their latest film 'Give Up On Hopes And Dreams', a rare insight into the work and world of Thaemlitz.