Speaker Music 'Synoptic Audio'

DeForrest Brown Jr.'s final piece as Speaker Music - is Synoptic Audio. The album is made of live recordings of electronic improvisation, essentially a self-made palette of dense, transporting drone and hand played keyboards and drums.

It’s a nexus of jazz and techno at the level of practice. It sounds like a jazz symphonic arrangement of shoegaze/post-rock via Detroit/dub techno, drawing inspiration from Black electronic music pioneer Don Lewis.

May 28th, Single 1: Dhalgren (Nihilism is Not Enough) (UPC: 634457260580) DeForrest calls this "semiocoustic reason"—using rhythm, resonance, and vibration as a way of thinking and perceiving the world.

The project is informed by Brown’s ongoing research into a diagnostic framework that draws on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of rhythmanalysis, where everyday life is analysed through rhythmic perception.

June 18th, Single 2: Saecularhythmia——The Rhythmanalyst relates to semiocoustic reason. (UPC: 634457260597) Rather than resolving into definitive compositions, Synoptic Audio remains open to reconfiguration.

Capturing how sound moves through space and hits a human body. These processes are a way to keep changing the music, rather than just documenting it, keeping it open and alive.

Tracklisting:
1. Techno-Vernacular Expressionism 
2. Saecularhythmia——The Rhythmanalyst relates to semiocoustic reason. 
3. …beyond the broken beat 
4. Chaosmosis 
5. Sense-Datum Volumetrics 
6. Synoptic Audio 
7. GLO//A (Global Latency Optimization // Acceleration) 
8. Teleoplexy 
9. Oogie Boogie 
10. Dhalgren (Nihilism is Not Enough)