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DeForrest Brown Jr.

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“As he brings his Speaker Music project to a close, the producer, historian, theorist and writer sets the record straight on undersung Black cybernetic analyses of the present and future.”
📝: @emilypothast, “Still Dreaming, Still Questing” @thewiremagazine, August 2026 (Issue 510)
📸: @donnelgarcia

Link in Bio

I. Synoptic Audio (ZIQ489) @planet.mu
CD/Digital
Special thanks @katherine.1433, @vakwan, @johnmoeb, @giominz, and @ting.ish

II. LEO-Projekt (Wire Mix)
Link in Bio / Mixcloud
Tracklist:
1. @angeltheoracle and DeForrest Brown, Jr. - Alkebulan: Beyond Drexciya – Live at @western_front, Vancouver 2025 (Portal Opening)
2. @__dopplereffekt__ - Ascension of Epigenetic Intelligence / Multiverse Wavefunction (Rhythmanalytic Revision Edit)
3. @the_otolith_group - Remnant of a Hydrogen Element from Hydra Decapita / A Sphere of Water Orbiting a Star
4. DeForrest Brown, Jr. - Live at Assembly by @somersethousestudios, London 2026
5. Speaker Music - Moral Injury
6. Miles Davis - Rated X (Rhythmanalytic Redesign Edit)
7. DeForrest Brown, Jr. - Neumann KU 100’s Sanity Check from Studio—Goodman 1, @empac_rpi, Troy 2025
8. Speaker Music - Live at Integrated Motion Studio by @notebook.platform and @libbyleshgoldgallery at @emilycarru, Vancouver 2025
9. @_hxh_expanse (@chris_ryanwilliams + @lesterst.louis) // Speaker Music - Live at @studio34philly by @fire_museum_presents , Philadelphia 2024
10. Ornette Coleman & London Symphony Orchestra - Skies of America (Ex-American Pragmatic Medley Dub)
11. Speaker Music - Live at @cambridgefoundry by @noneventseries, Boston 2025
12. Kodwo Eshun - Narratives of a Near-Future from International Symposium at HEAD – Haute école d’art et de design, Genève 2017
13. Angel Bat Dawid - Joy n’ Suff’rin / Lawd Hav’ Merci (Adventures in Sonic Fiction Dub)
14. Angel Bat Dawid and DeForrest Brown, Jr. - Alkebulan: Beyond Drexciya – Live at Western Front, Vancouver 2025 (Portal Closing) taken in Vancouver, British Columbia by @clinicalpoetics

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I’m proud to share that my debut book “Assembling a Black Counter Culture” is out today @primaryinfo [link in bio] and available in the UK/EU @antennebooks. The book presents a comprehensive account of techno with a focus on the history of Black experiences in industrialized labor systems—repositioning the genre as a unique form of Black musical and cultural production.

On August 5th at 7pm, I will present a lecture and performance for the opening of @gi_newyork’s #technoworlds @knockdowncenter that explains the premise of the book while reimagining techno beyond the dancefloor as a timeline for technologies of Black exodus and a myth-scientific world system, spanning 1582 to 2100. by @clinicalpoetics

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Rest In Peace, grandad…

So much of what I do was inspired by the stories he would tell me, and the adventures we would go on. When I was young, he nicknamed me “professor” after his friend and bandleader John T. “Fess” Whatley, “the maker of musicians.” Now that he’s gone, I’m left with his stories; the blues, jazz, and soul music that he shared with me; and, the memories of our road-trips between Black enclaves in the Deep South and Midwest…

📸: @ting.ish taken in Enon Ridge by @clinicalpoetics

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Our THE LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY VIFF Live has it all.

On October 2, join us in our VIFF Cinema for music, conversation, and film. The night begins with a live performance from Speaker Music, the music alias of DeForrest Brown Jr., whose improvisational performances and recorded works sculpt memory and sonic form into a multi-textural rhythmic body.

Following this music, a 30th anniversary screening of THE LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY (1996), which traces the musical legacy of Afrofuturism from its rhythmic origins during the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the imaginary ’future’ worlds conjured in techno and jungle music. Created by the visionary Black Audio Film Collective and directed by John Akomfrah, it examines the intersection between Pan-African culture, science fact, and science fiction.

The event will conclude with a conversation featuring acclaimed interdisciplinary artists, writers, and theorists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, founders of UK artist collective The Otolith Group, in conversation with Brown Jr.

This event is co-presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery (@vanartgallery).

Get your tickets to our #VIFF2026 Live programming at the link in bio.

Thank you to our Series Community Partner, @pushfestival and our Series Media Partners @read.range and @stirvancouver by @clinicalpoetics

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In his first piece for the co-op, DeForrest Brown Jr. (@clinicalpoetics) applies R. Murray Schafer's concept of 'schizophonia' (the separation of sound from its source) to streaming audio, examining how these same systems managing music consumption now fuel the dual-use “defense” economy.

You can find the full story at the link in our bio. by @clinicalpoetics

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(LA) Deluge presents Nocturne at the Hammer Museum, staged in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition of Arthur Jafa: The White Album. Joy Guidry, Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown Jr.), and Alima Lee perform live, taking up the questions Jafa’s film raises about visibility, legibility, and refusal.

Through sound, space, light, and atmosphere, the program dissolves the boundary between performer and audience, the seen and unseen.

Saturday August 15. 7:30pm. Free with RSVP at the link in bio.

Poster Design by Denzel Boyd ( @____denz ) by @clinicalpoetics

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In their visionary essay, written in the early days of Covid, DeForrest Brown, Jr. and Ting Ding explore the strange world of platform capitalism: from lo-fi beats that soothe frayed nerves and boost productivity, to the pervasive sense of apathy and overwhelm that permeates online life up to this day.

Originally featured in the (sold-out) Sonic Acts Academy 2020 magazine, the text is now available for free on the Sonic Acts Substack.

DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a theorist, curator, musician (performing as Speaker Music), and author of the book ‘Assembling a Black Counter Culture’. Ting Ding is a visual designer, data analyst, and co-founder of HECHA / 做.

📖→ Read on Substack via the link in bio.

The text was republished by @domain______ in the collection ‘this simulation sux’ (2024).

Sonic Acts is supported by @stimuleringsfonds & @afk020. by @clinicalpoetics

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One Winged Angel LIVE presents the legend Speaker Music (Planet Mu) @clinicalpoetics

supported by @nerv.op, @opponentprocesses, @sierralima3, @acounta99, and @one________________wingedangel

visuals by @trilliamgibson

at @kwstudiosvan on August 22. - tickets available on ticketweb, and weekend pass available online as well for this show + @mehdibanter's show on August 23.

Pure CDJ Destruction taken in KW Studios by @clinicalpoetics

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Twórczość DeForresta Browna, Jr. rozwija się pomiędzy muzyką, pisarstwem i teorią kultury. Posługując się autorskim pojęciem rhythmanalysis, bada historię muzyki elektronicznej poprzez relacje pomiędzy rytmem, technologią, historią pracy przemysłowej i doświadczeniem afroamerykańskim. Techno nie jest dla niego gatunkiem muzycznym, lecz sposobem opowiadania o historii, pamięci i przemianach społecznych. Muzyka, pisarstwo i działalność kuratorska tworzą w jego twórczości wzajemnie powiązane narzędzia rozwijania tej samej refleksji.

Kim jest DeForrest Brown, Jr.?
DeForrest Brown, Jr. jest pochodzącym z Alabamy Ex-American rhythmanalystą, pisarzem, muzykiem i kuratorem. Pod pseudonimem Speaker Music wydał serię albumów dla wytwórni Planet Mu, zwieńczoną wydawnictwem Synoptic Audio (2026). Jest autorem książki Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Primary Information, 2022), współkuratorował wystawę HOPE w Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art w Bolzano oraz prezentował swoje prace m.in. na Biennale Musica w Wenecji, Rewire Festival i Somerset House. Prowadził również wykłady i zajęcia na uczelniach, takich jak Harvard University, Princeton University, Simon Fraser University oraz School for Poetic Computation.

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Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury w ramach programu „Muzyka”, realizowanego przez Narodowy Instytut Muzyki i Tańca. by @clinicalpoetics

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For a feature in @musicworksmag, back in the fall, DeForrest Brown, Jr. (@clinicalpoetics) and I connected for an interview about his practice, ‘Assembling a Black Counter Culture’ — his 2022 book unpacking the material conditions that produced techno and the mythology it created as a response — and the path that led him to becoming an “Ex-American” living in Vancouver.

Today news arrived that ‘Synoptic Audio,’ DeForrest’s final album under the Speaker Music moniker would arrive July 10 via @planet.mu . Feels like a good time to tease that story, available in the current issue of Musicworks, which includes a CD premiering album track “Sense-Datum Volumetrics.” by @clinicalpoetics

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Speaker Music @clinicalpoetics returns with his final missive "Synoptic Audio"
on July 10th. Photography by @ting.ish

Bandcamp
https://speakermusic.bandcamp.com/album/synoptic-audio

Stream now
https://cargo-independent.ffm.to/speakermusic_dhalgrennihilismisnotenough

Presave
https://cargo-independent.ffm.to/speakermusic_synopticaudio by @clinicalpoetics

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Closing out Assembly, DeForrest Brown, Jr. (@clinicalpoetics) returns after his March 2025 residency at Somerset House Studios to present a newly commissioned performance, Synoptic Audio, exploring rhythm, spatial sound, and recording to reflect on cultural perception, the music industry’s political economy, and the platforms shaping how music circulates.

For Assembly, the work unfolds through systems Brown has developed to generate unique, iterative performances, with recordings captured, edited, and recombined in real time. The result is a live, improvisatory exploration of how music is made and experienced, offering new ways to listen and think about sound.

Ahead of the performance, Brown joins @mathisontrevor, @a.j_boakye_yiadom, and @ain.bailey for a Black Industrial Research Group (BIRG) panel, examining experimental sound as both material and concept through the lens of Black industrial aesthetics. Link in bio for more.

Video by Speaker Music at The Foundry by Non-Event
Videography: Wenhua Shi
Recording & mix: Lucas Bickford taken in Somerset House by @clinicalpoetics

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