Speaker Music
Live + AV
DeForrest Brown, Jr. is an Alabama-raised, Ex-American rhythmanalyst, writer, musician, and curator. 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. He has released three albums on Planet Mu; 'Of Desire, Longing' (2019), 'Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry' (2020) and 'Techxodus' (2023). His written work explores the links between the Black experience in industrialized labour systems and Black innovation in electronic music. Brown’s debut book ‘Assembling a Black Counter Culture’ was released on Primary Information in 2022. In 2023, he co-curated HOPE, an international group exhibition presented by Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano-Bozen as the final installment of the TECHNO HUMANITIES trilogy. Brown, Jr. is currently collaborating with Tresor on the meta-narratives for Cybtron’s Maintain the Golden Ratio (2023), Parallel Shift (2024) and beyond. Brown, Jr. is a current lecturer at Simon Fraser University in the Department of Sound Art and Sound Design. He has also taught courses and lectured on new media, Black history and music at The New School, NYU, Harvard University, Brown University, and Princeton University.
SCHEDULE
NOV 16 || SATURDAY
Transform: Night II
Atrium
11:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Speaker Music Live + AV
11:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Speaker Music Live + AV