Sonic Street Technologies

✨ We’re glad to invite you all to the premiere of the research documentary ‘From Local Origins: A Honey Trap Sound System Story’. ⏰ The film will premiere on the SST YouTube channel on Saturday the 14th of March at 8pm AEDT (Melbourne), 9am GMT (London). ✍️ The SST project has used films as a research tool throughout the study. Although not originally planned, this approach developed organically in response to feedback from the field. Short commissioned films have proven useful not only for disseminating research but also for sparking dialogue with street culture. The filmmaking process also impacts the practitioners themselves, who, in the rush to present themselves on screen, are pushed to reflect more deeply on their practice, aspirations, and challenges—especially the younger ones. As reported in the new blog by Maia Gold from @honeytrapsoundsystem 👉Link to blog and YouTube channel in bio! #soundsystemculture #femalesoundsystem #practiceasresearch #ercresearch #culturalstudies

¿Cómo se investiga una ciudad que vibra? Mi nuevo blog, publicado en @sonicstreettech sonic-street-technologies.com, narra el proceso de investigar SS y picós en Bogotá desde la experiencia corporal, la memoria picotera y el trabajo de campo. Este texto no existiría sin las conversaciones con Diana León @lacomadresoundsystem Ricardo Vega @elgranlatidosoundsystem , Diego Pedraza @cultureunitedoficial Fuego Negro @sistema_sonoro_fuego_negro Leo Suárez @elviejo_soundsystem y Uranis Alberto Rojas del picó el Talisman, quienes compartieron sus trayectorias, saberes técnicos y formas de habitar la ciudad a través del sonido. Porque el conocimiento no se produce en solitario. Se produce en comunidad. @sonicstreettech 🔗 Link en bio. #bogota🇨🇴 #soundsystem #pickup

👉 Un peu plus d’infos sur l’événement “Sound System Cultures Worldwide” qui se déroulera vendredi 5 décembre au @cinemaeldorado de Dijon en amont de la dernière session Protect The Dub de l’année qui se tiendra le lendemain (samedi 6 décembre) aux Tanneries avec @bababoomhifi 👉 5 documentaires inédits issus du projet de recherche européen @sonicstreettech soutirés en VOSTFR par nos soins ! 👉 toutes les infos et quelques extraits dans les slides 📣 venez en nombre !!! #culturalthing

🎬🍿 Rendez-vous le vendredi 5 Décembre à 20h au cinéma Eldorado à Dijon ! On vous invite à découvrir la diversité des cultures sound systems dans le monde avec cinq documentaires inédits issus du projet de recherche européen Sonic Street Technologies. Ces films montrent comment des communautés militent en installant leurs systèmes de sonorisation artisanaux à même la rue. Que ce soit pour se retrouver, danser ou amplifier la voix des mouvements sociaux, ces groupes ont assimilé ce media de diffusion pour en faire un outil de revendication à la fois culturel, spirituel et politique. La projection sera suivie d’un temps d’échange en présence de Brian d’Aquino, assistant chercheur dans le projet Sonic Street Technologies et fondateur du label et sound system Bababoom Hi-Fi. 🗓️ 5.12.2025 🕰️ 20h 📍 @cinemaeldorado 💰 prix libre 🗣️ VOSTFR Montage : @samuel_kazar

En el marco del festival noviembre de 2025, se presentó el documental Urabá Soundsystem Sonando con Propósito en la Universidad de Londres Goldsmiths @sonicstreettech @bababoomhifi @miladiscordoba @willintonalbornoz @uraba.soundsystem @estebanasantacruz

The Italian sound system is herrrrrrrrreeeeeee! Super excited to announce our very own Sonic Street Technologies is hosting Sound System Cultures Worldwide at Goldsmiths this weekend. Come for the tunes, stay for the chat. Come to learn, come to gherrrrrrrrr. Info here: /sso11-sound-system-cultures-worldwide-schedule/ @sonicstreettech

🎶 SSO#11: Sound System Cultures Worldwide (7–8 November 2025) The Final Dance: Soul Rockers sound system & friends 🔈🔈🔈 Soul Rockers reggae sound system (Italy) will be in residence over the two days and they will run the dance on the Saturday evening when they will be joined by guest selectors Tiny T, Asher G, Doc Murdoc, Naoko the Rock and Enrico (Hep Time). @soulrockerssoundsystem @tennyson_goulbourne @asher_g_the_rocksteady_daddy @doc.murdoc @naoko_the_rock @enricobonadio Based in Tuscany, Soul Rockers has long been a militant force on the Italian oldies scene and for selectors Francesco (aka Scratching Sounds) and Soul Rose, staying true to originality and quality is a mission: they have dedicated their lives to selecting, performing live, listening and researching, the passion leading to the creation of their own sound system in 2015. As well as hosting numerous events at Lago Verde, south of Pisa, with the likes of Horace Andy, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and the best of London’s revival selectors, they have since travelled across Italy and to select destinations abroad to promote and spread their love of oldies Jamaican music. #SoundSystemCultures #SonicStreetTechnologies #SSO11#SoundSystemResearch #GlobalResonances#CaribbeanRoots #CommunitySound #BassCulture#DIYCulture #GlobalSound #SoundSystemWorldwide#MusicAndTechnology #SonicHeritage #SoundSystemStudies#SoundSystemOuternational #Jamaica #Reggae #Rocksteady #Ska #Vinyl #Analog

Day 2 – Panel 4: Sounds of Brazil 🇧🇷 Aparelhagens in urban Amazonia, radiolas in Maranhão, equipos do som in Rio, car-mounted systems in the outskirts of São Paulo. Brazil is home to the world’s richest constellation of homegrown sound system cultures, not forgetting influences from Jamaica and the UK. This panel gives each of these music scenes individual attention, exploring how local innovation, social dynamics, and transnational music currents shape a multilayered urban soundscape which resonates to the rhythms of funk, brega, reggae and dub. 🎤 Presentations by: • Dr Marcus Ramusyo Brasil @marcusramusyoalmeida • Dr Leo Vidigal @leovidigal67 • Dr Bruno Barboza Muniz @dubmuniz • Daniella Pimenta @adanipimenta and Marcelo Yokoi @watcha_zanyok • Natalia Figueredo @ntfigueredo and Maria Luiza de Barros @marialuizabr • Prof Gisela Castro and Roberto Gonzaga 🎬 Films: * Natty Nayfson, the Prince of Freedom, 10 min @nnattynayfson_ * Street, Gender and Sound: The Feminine Hi-Fi Experience, 10 min @femininehifi 📅 SSO#11: Sound System Cultures Worldwide will be a hybrid event. 🔗 Registration links for both in-person and online participation in bio. 📷 Natalia Figueredo @ntfigueredo #SoundSystemCultures #SonicStreetTechnologies #SSO11#SoundSystemResearch #GlobalResonances#CaribbeanRoots #CommunitySound #BassCulture#DIYCulture #GlobalSound #SoundSystemWorldwide #MusicAndTechnology #SonicHeritage #SoundSystemStudies #SoundSystemOuternational #Jamaica #SoundSystemCulture #Brazil #Radiola #NattyNayfson #Aparelhagem #EquiposDoSom #Brega #Paredão #Paredões

Day 2 – Panel 3: The Jamaican Sound System Diaspora: (Jamaica 🇯🇲 | Canada 🇨🇦 | UK 🇬🇧) The Jamaican-born sound system 🔊 is undoubtedly the most well-known and widespread street sonic culture on the planet. Both a social institution and a technological laboratory, it has sparked nearly a century of sonic innovation and exerted vast global influence over the way music is produced, played, and enjoyed worldwide. This panel focuses on Jamaican sound culture 🇯🇲 and its diasporic ramifications in Canada 🇨🇦 and the UK 🇬🇧, assessing the significance and enduring influence of Jamaica’s most celebrated cultural pillar. 🎤 Presentations by: •⁠ ⁠Prof Sonjah Stanely Niaah @culturedoctor •⁠ ⁠Dr Dennis Howard @jahmento1 •⁠ ⁠David Katz @dubmealways • Prof Mark Campbell @afrosonicinnovationlab •⁠ ⁠Alanna Stuart @alannastuart •⁠ ⁠Mandeep Samra and Gopal Dutta 🎬 Films: •⁠ ⁠Sounds of the Future: A Jamaican Sound System Industry Reasoning Session (excerpt), 20 min •⁠ ⁠Rockers Sound Station. Tales of the Kingston Dub Club @kingstondubclub •⁠ ⁠El sonido de los suenos (The Sound of Dreams) 📅 SSO#11: Sound System Cultures Worldwide will be a hybrid event. 🔗 Registration links for both in-person and online participation in bio. 📷 Brian D’Aquino / @jam_one_intl_sound / #SoundSystemCultures #SonicStreetTechnologies #SSO11#SoundSystemResearch #GlobalResonances#CaribbeanRoots #CommunitySound #BassCulture#DIYCulture #GlobalSound #SoundSystemWorldwide#MusicAndTechnology #SonicHeritage #SoundSystemStudies#SoundSystemOuternational #Jamaica #SoundSystemCulture #KingstonDubClub #CanadaSoundSystem

🎶 SSO#11: Sound System Cultures Worldwide (7–8 November 2025) Day 1: Panel 2 – Music Machines of Mexico and Colombia: 🇲🇽 Mexico | 🇨🇴 Colombia |🇺🇸 USA In Mexico and Colombia, locally built sound systems form the backbone of vibrant popular music scenes. Mexican sonidera culture 🇲🇽 mobilizes hundreds of thousands of practitioners across the country, while also nurturing strong cultural ties with the Mexican diaspora in the United States 🇺🇸 through the sounds of cumbia and salsa. On Colombia’s Caribbean coast 🇨🇴, picós animate Black and working-class audiences with a wide range of musical genres, including champeta, soukous and dancehall, sometimes accompanying their migration to major urban centres, where reggae sound systems are also gaining ground. This panel investigates how these localized sound system cultures articulate forms of collective identity, memory, and belonging through music, dance, and technology. 🎤 Presentations by: • Edgar Benítez Fuentes @djdrtiger • Jorge Enrique Giraldo Barbosa @jorgegiraldob • Miladis Cordoba Rivas @miladiscordoba and Willinton Albornoz Quejada @willintonalbornoz • Fernanda Soria Cruz and Paulina Lanz • Dr Cesar Rebolledo rebolledo_dr 🎬 Films: • Sonido, Palabra y Poder (Word, Sound and Power), 10 min @elgranlatidosoundsystem • Sonando con Proposito (Playing with Purpose), 33 min @uraba.soundsystem • MUSAS Sonideras USA, 22 min • El sonido de los sueños (The Sound of Dreams), 50 min 📅 SSO#11: Sound System Cultures Worldwide will be a hybrid event. 🔗 Registration links for both in-person and online participation in bio. 📷 @el_grosero_dj / Brian D’Aquino #SoundSystemCultures #SonicStreetTechnologies #SSO11#SoundSystemResearch #GlobalResonances#CaribbeanRoots #CommunitySound #BassCulture#DIYCulture #GlobalSound #SoundSystemWorldwide#MusicAndTechnology #SonicHeritage #SoundSystemStudies#SoundSystemOuternational #CulturaPicotera #Champeta #CulturaSonidera #Cumbia #Sonido #Pico #Caribe #Mexico #Colombia

🎶 SSO#11: Sound System Cultures Worldwide (7–8 November 2025) Day 1: Panel #1 – Global Resonances: 🇦🇺 Australia | 🇮🇳 India | 🇫🇷 France In 2025, sound system cultures are established on every continent. With influences ranging from Jamaican sound culture to the UK rave scene, these localised adaptations have diversified across genres, styles, and technologies to engage local audiences and environments. From Australian protestivals 🇦🇺 to French teknivals 🇫🇷 and India’s rising dub movement 🇮🇳, this panel explores the global resonances of contemporary sound system culture — tracing their histories, social articulations, and the visions that animate their practitioners. 🎤 Presentations by: • Dr Clare Cooper • Dr Moses Iten @mosesiten • Dr Andrew Belletty @andrew_belletty • Dr Aadita Chaudhury • Dr Jean-Christophe Sevin @jeanchristophe_sevin 🎬 Films: • Knock ’Em Down Sound System @knock_em_down_sound_system • Bass Foundation Roots @delhisultanate • Heavy! A Congress of Sound Systems in Melbourne/Naarm @heavycongress • From Powerful Origins @honeytrapsoundsystem 📅 SSO#11: Sound System Cultures Worldwide will be a hybrid event. 🔗 Registration links for both in-person and online participation in bio. 📷 @elgranmono.pico / @heavycongress / @francesco.vicenzi #SoundSystemCultures #SonicStreetTechnologies #SSO11 #SoundSystemResearch #GlobalResonances #CaribbeanRoots #DubCulture #TeknoCulture #ReggaeToRave #CulturalResistance #CommunitySound #BassCulture #DIYCulture #GlobalSound #SoundSystemWorldwide #MusicAndTechnology #SonicHeritage #SoundSystemStudies #SoundSystemOuternational

WE'RE BACK! SS0 #11 Sound System Cultures Worldwide Presented by Sound System Outernational (SSO) and Sonic Street Technologies 7th–8th Nov 2025 @ Goldsmiths. Tickets via Eventbrite. Link in Bio. #SoundSystemCultures #SST #SSO #Reggae #CommunityArchives.