September 22, 2020 at 6PM CT
Center For Psychic Technology Presents
SPEAKER MUSIC
SYANIDE
SSPS
SAMANTHA RIOTT & GYNA BOOTLEG
Live Stream From The Night Depository
DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a New York-based theorist, journalist, and curator. He produces digital audio and extended media as Speaker Music and is a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign. His most recent writing can be found in Afropunk, Artforum and Hyperallergic. Primary Information will publish his book Assembling a Black Counter Culture in 2020.
SSPS is The musical arm of artist Jon Winfield Nicholson aka “Porkchop,” a long time member of the band Excepter. SSPS is best described as a wall of sound- mostly in D minor or G Flat. Originals, covers, instrumentals & electronic music with words. It is equal parts light and dark. Word. Sound. Power.
Artist statement:
BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENCE.
IN REVERENCE OF DECAY.
WITH EVIDENCE OF REMAIN.
SYANIDE IS MOST DANGEROUS
IN PLACES WHERE THE GAS WILL BE TRAPPED.
Bio:
SYANIDE is a sound artist who works between New Jersey and Brooklyn. Since their debut set for Boiler Room in 2019, SYANIDE has gained traction in NYC’s underground community, developing a sound that questions the function and form of dance music. NYC sound collective DISCWOMAN curiously questioned their approach as a guest on their ‘DISCUS’ podcast, where they candidly spoke on their relationship to technology, time, intergenerational irreverence and mentorship, and the presence of technical disruption over technical perfection in their work. They were featured as a panelist for Dweller Festival’s premiere discussion entitled ‘Who Does Techno Belong To?’ and performed at ‘Black Sound’ hosted by Make Techno Black Again x HECHA NYC. Their track “RASH” was featured on the third volume of ‘Physically Sick’. They provided a piano improv and wrote a poem titled “Disruption (Cato’s Conspiracy)” for Clinical Poetics’s ‘Black National Sonic Weaponry’ album, serving as a visceral re-imagining of the 1739 Stono Uprising, the largest recorded uprising of captive Africans in British-occupied South Carolina and the colonial U.S. mainland. Their latest release ‘RHONDA (RIP)’ is a 6-minute, 4-track digital tape available on Bandcamp.
Samantha Riott & Gyna Bootleg duo with vocals and music.