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Steve Goodman (aka Kode9) is an artist, writer, and DJ. He founded the record labels Hyperdub in 2004 and Flatlines in 2019. His book Sonic Warfare was published in 2009 (MIT Press) and in 2019 he coedited Audint-Unsound:Undead (Urbanomic Press). In 2021, he founded Flatlines as a book imprint with its first publication Ø. His sound installations have appeared at, among other places, the Tate Modern, the Barbican, and CAC in Shanghai. He has produced three albums, two with the late vocalist The Spaceape, Memories of the Future (2006) and Black Sun (2012), and one solo, Nothing (2015).
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The golem myth becomes a sonic fiction, a retroactive engineering of dispossessed data rhythms that expose the systematic canceling-out of origin. As feedback circuits, logic gates, and automated hypothesis merge with Afro-diasporic flesh, codes become sensual matter that enter black musical sociality and proliferate underneath and across the global infrastructures of the master/slave modeling of command and control. The “futurhythmachine” tells us of the irreversible complicity of automation and dispossession reconfiguring the techno-cultural matrix of innovation and subjection in the operating systems of planetary capital. Golemology here offers not a withdrawal from orality, but rather advances through the alien frequencies of worlds otherwise, mingling and infecting the organic integrity of human language.