DeForrest Brown Jr.

DeForrest Brown, Jr.
DeForrest Brown, Jr.
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[edit]

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[edit]

Assembling a Black Counter Culture (2021, Primary Information)

External links[edit]

References[edit]

^ 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.

[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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