DeForrest Brown Jr.

DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a rhythmanalyst, media theorist and curator.[1] Brown releases music under his own name as well as by the moniker Speaker Music.[2] Brown is a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign. His first book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, is slated for publication with Primary Information in May 2021.[3]

DeForrest Brown, Jr.
Also known asSpeaker Music
OriginBirmingham, Alabama
Genrestechno, Black music, experimental, avant-garde, noise
Occupation(s)cultural theorist, journalist, musician
LabelsPTP, Planet Mu
Websitehttps://speakermusic.bandcamp.com

Discography

Release year Title Label Personnel/Notes
2017 Absent Personae PTP Kepla & DeForrest Brown, Jr.
2018 The Wages of Being Black is Death PTP Kepla & DeForrest Brown, Jr.
2019 of desire, longing Planet Mu Speaker Music
2020 processing intimacy Speaker Music
2020 Percussive Therapy Speaker Music
2020 Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry Planet Mu Speaker Music
2020 As Serious As Your Life PTP Speaker Music & bookworms
2020 a bitter but beautiful struggle PTP Speaker Music

Bibliography

  • Assembling a Black Counter Culture (2021, Primary Information)

References

  1. Dorris, Jesse (August 15, 2020). "How DeForrest Brown, Jr., Centers the Black Body in Techno Music". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  2. Sherburne, Philip (July 8, 2020). "Speaker Music: Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry". Pitchfork. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  3. "Assembling a Black Counter Culture". Primary Information. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
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