DeForrest Brown Jr.

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

DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a writer, music and 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 written work traverses "the links between the Black experience in industrialized labor systems and Black innovation in electronic music."[3] It has appeared in Artforum, Triple Canopy, NPR, CTM Festival, Mixmag, among many others.

His first book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, was published with Primary Information in 2022.[4] His second book, this simulation sux, was co-written with the statistical analyst and visual designer Ting Ding and published by the small press DOMAIN in the summer of 2024.[5]

  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. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Assembling a Black Counter Culture". Primary Information. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  5. ^ "this simulation sux — Domain". d-o-m-a-i-n.org. Retrieved July 10, 2024.