DeForrest Brown, Jr.

DeForrest Brown, Jr. is an Alabama-raised, ex-American rhythmanalyst, writer, musician, and curator. Brown's work channels the African American modernist tradition of techno-vernacular expression. He has released three albums on Planet Mu. Brown’s debut book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, was released on Primary Information. 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 is currently developing Rhythmanalytics, a work-in-progress diagnostic exploration of electronic music at the end of the music industry.