tekhnē #4 - DeForrest Brown Jr. - 17th December 2024

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project **https://tekhne.website/?partner=tekhne&type=blogs**, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. **tekhnē** is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

This episode features **https://www.instagram.com/clinicalpoetics/?hl=en**, an ex-American writer, journalist, theorist, curator and a self-described musician by necessity - releasing music under his Speaker Music moniker. DeForrest Brown Jr. is the author of the book *Assembling a Black Counter Culture*, where he presents a comprehensive account of techno with a focus on the history of Black e