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December 2025
Bring Me Back is a modular, music mediator, hoping to restore a fulfilling, contentful connection to our media. This is crucial within our current, oppressive consumption culture, defined by an addictive dependence on immediacy technologies. AirPods, audio quantization, Spotify algorithms, this screen you read on – these tools are incomprehensibly efficient sensory mediators that compress, homogenize, and flatten the work passing through them. Yet, we often have no clue how such tools function and little incentive to care to learn.
Bring Me Back serves as a mediator that both invites users to understand it, and emphasizes the textured identity of these users’ lived spaces. Bring Me Back’s simple, modular design inspires users to open the speaker up and inspect the wiring within. They can see how the boards connect to each other, and they can connect the banana plugs to complete the circuit. In other words, they turn bookshelf speakers from a consumer black-box into a comprehensible machine.
Unlike vinyl, a format that often ends up hanging on peoples’ walls and often requires expensive outboard equipment to properly mediate, the Bring Me Back speaker can connect to phones, computers, CD players, Cassette recorders, any technology that actually reinforces the user to, well, use. While this runs the risk of reinforcing homogenizing structures like streaming, it offsets that risk through its enormous potential to dynamically activate the unique identity inherent to people’s spaces and bodies.