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Conversations in the Radical Library

by Outputmessage

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Washington, D.C. – Clocking in at over 50 minutes, Conversations in the Radical Library by Outputmessage is the 9th release on the Black Techno Matters music label and features a single live drum machine set performed by Bernard Farley, founder of Black Techno Matters. The music was originally recorded in November 2021 as part of a curated discussion panel titled “Black Queer Aesthetics --- Blackness. Queerness. Nightlife.” It took place at the Radical Library inside of the Eaton Hotel in Washington, DC and was organized by the underground QTBIPOC techno collective Noxeema Jackson. “I enjoyed the challenge of playing live techno in a library setting while the audience and panelists were having small talk. At first, I was fiddling with more traditional techno rhythms and sounds, but then I landed on this minimal beat that literally caused several heads in the room to turn toward me. And so I made it the motif and just tried to keep it going as long as I could without ever changing or doing too much. It felt like mutual musical meditation, a calibration of consciousness.” The subtle slow-motion beats and expansive textures of Conversations in the Radical Library at times whisper and at other times rumble the speakers, evolving in complexity so as to provoke the listener while always allowing enough space for them to add to the conversation. The music also doubles as the transition piece between Outputmessage and B_X_R_N_X_R_D, Bernard’s newest musical incarnation. “I see Conversations now as the radical waiting room music for the arrival of B_X_R_N_X_R_D, my new decolonized musical identity.”

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released December 9, 2022

Recorded November 17 2021. All music by Bernard Farley. Mastering by Bernard Farley.

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Outputmessage Washington

Outputmessage is Bernard Farley, an experience artist based in Washington, D.C. Through, dancing, music, DJing, photography, and video, he creates familiar, yet subversive, multi-faceted experiences that explore themes of queer and black identity. His recent works include the explosive protest techno song and video “Wake the Fuck up!” and the bewildering Weapons of Mass Distraction. ... more

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