Absent Personae, by Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr.

Absent Personae

by Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr.

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1.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite I 04:49	buy track
2.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite II 03:27	buy track
3.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite III 02:42	buy track
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5.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite IV 03:46	buy track
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10.	Crowding and Bubbling Landscapes of Deposited Bodies Suite VIII 04:55	buy track

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'Absent Personae' is a collaboration between Liverpool-based sound artist, Jon Davies aka Kepla, and New York-based media theorist and music writer, DeForrest Brown Jr. Following in the style of verbatim theater, Brown – through private recordings in various urban public environments – recalls a palpable though unseen trauma while wading amidst Davies’ digital processing of found social media audio. The result is a psychopolitical meditation on Black America as a (de)territorialized subject.

“'Absent Personae' was commissioned by Electronic Voice Phenomena as an interstitial spectre in transition, resonating with the sinister politics of pseudo-science histories, while speculating on identity as evasion and persona without orientation.

The piece is a post-industrial Dérive considering the psychological liminal zones between old and new industry and urbanity, the changing landscapes of labor: a fractured genealogical memory trace obscured by intercepted signals and the liquidating flux of late capitalism."

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released September 29, 2017

Mastered: Jeremy Cox
Artwork: Chris Boyd

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