DeForrest Brown Jr.
DeForrest Brown, Jr. | |
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Also known as | Speaker Music |
Origin | Birmingham, Alabama |
Genres | techno, Black music, experimental, avant-garde, noise |
Occupation(s) | cultural theorist, journalist, musician |
Labels | PTP, Planet Mu |
Website | https://speakermusic.bandcamp.com |
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]
Discography[]
Release year | Title | Label | Personnel/Notes |
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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)
External links[]
- Speaker Music Bandcamp
- Make Techno Black Again
- Conversation/podcast with Deforrest Brown Jr. at Radio Web MACBA, 2021
References[]
- ^ Dorris, Jesse (August 15, 2020). "How DeForrest Brown, Jr., Centers the Black Body in Techno Music". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
- ^ Sherburne, Philip (July 8, 2020). "Speaker Music: Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry". Pitchfork. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
- ^ "Assembling a Black Counter Culture". Primary Information. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
Categories:
- American techno musicians
- African-American DJs
- Theorists
- People from New York (state)
- Living people
- American DJs
- 21st-century African-American people