DeForrest Brown Jr.

DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a writer, music and media theorist, and curator. Brown releases music under his own name as well as by the moniker Speaker Music. 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." 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. 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.