Deforrest Brown Jr. (Speaker Music)

Bio

DeForrest Brown, Jr. is an Alabama-raised, Ex-American rhythmanalyst, writer, and musician. As Speaker Music, he channels the African American modernist tradition of rhythm and soul music as an intellectual site and sound of techno-vernacular expression. On Juneteenth of 2020, he released the album Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry on Planet Mu. His written work explores the links between the Black experience in industrialized labor systems and Black innovation in electronic music, and has appeared in Artforum, Triple Canopy, NPR, CTM Festival, Mixmag, among many others. He has performed or presented work at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Camden Arts Centre, UK; Unsound Festival, Krakow; Sónar, Barcelona; Roulette, New York; and elsewhere. Assembling a Black Counter Culture is Brown’s debut book

What does liberation mean to you?

Liberation for me means not just imagining, but already living in a future that isn’t indebted to the fictive and failing socio-economic “progress” imagined within the frames of techno-utopianism.

Info

Instagram: clinicalpoetics
Affiliations: Planet Mu
Upcoming Releases: Techxodus, TBA Fall, Planet Mu
Resident Advisor: speakermusic
Soundcloud: speakermusic
Bandcamp: speakermusic.bandcamp.com