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We are excited to announce a unique and immersive evening of film screenings, celebrating the diverse world of sound system cultures from around the globe.

Join us on December 5th, 2025, at Cinéma Eldorado in Dijon, France🇫🇷 for a one-of-a-kind event showcasing five exclusive SST research documentaries, organised by Sk**ky Yard and Dubatriation sound system in association with Sonic Street Technologies.

More details on the SST blog:

https://sonic-street-technologies.com/sound-system-cultures-worldwide-in-dijon-france/

Few images from SSO #11 Sound System Cultures Worldwide, the end of project event for SST- but not the end of the research!

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed to making this event not only a success, but also a moment of joy and togetherness: the researchers, the in-person and online audience, the technical and production team, and the Soul Rockers sound system and guest selectors.

Event credits:
Executive Producers: Julian Henriques, Brian D’Aquino
Event Producer and Social Media Manager: Nana Opoku
On-line Event Manager: Siufan Adey
On-line Assistant: Xavier Pillai
Graphic Designer: Marina Cardoso
Sound System: Soul Rockers

📸 Anta Male

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
•⁠ ⁠Dr Dennis Howard
•⁠ ⁠David Katz
• Prof Mark Campbell
•⁠ ⁠Alanna Stuart
•⁠ ⁠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
•⁠ ⁠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 /

🎶 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
• Jorge Enrique Giraldo Barbosa
• Miladis Cordoba Rivas and Willinton Albornoz Quejada
• Fernanda Soria Cruz and Paulina Lanz
• Dr Cesar Rebolledo

🎬 Films:
• Sonido, Palabra y Poder (Word, Sound and Power), 10 min
• Sonando con Proposito (Playing with Purpose), 33 min .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.

📷 / Brian D’Aquino

🎶 SSO #11: Sound System Cultures Worldwide (7–8 November 2025)

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
* Dr Andrew Belletty
* Dr Aadita Chaudhury
* Dr Jean-Christophe Sevin

🎬 Films:
* Knock ’Em Down Sound System
* Bass Foundation Roots
* Heavy! A Congress of Sound Systems in Melbourne/Naarm
* From Powerful Origins

📅 SSO #11: Sound System Cultures Worldwide will be a hybrid event.
🔗 Registration links for both in-person and online participation
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/sound-system-outernational-33691097293

Full schedule for our end of project event SSO #11 - Sound System Cultures Worldwide has just been published 🥳

Join us in person at Goldsmiths, University of London or remotely on Zoom on 7-8 November, 2025 ✨

Read the blog for more details🫶

SSO#11: Sound System Cultures Worldwide Schedule Sound System Outernational (SSO) in association with Sonic Street Technologies (SST) ERC research project and Soul Rockers sound system (Italy) are excited to announce the schedule for SSO #11 Sound System Cultures Worldwide on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th November 2025. This two-day event of film scr...

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✍️ New blog up! Guest author Gopa Dutta on the Huddersfield Sound System Culture Mini Festival, which featured a screening session of a few SST research films.

🔗 read the full blog and watch the amazing after movie:

SSC Mini Festival Report On Sunday, September the 15th, some of the SST research films were screened at the 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, UK. The event was organised by Let’s Go Yorkshire in collabora...

✍️ New blog up! Guest author Manuel Nieves takes us on a voyage of discovery of the unique art and craft of Colombian picó graphics, kicking off with traditional poster-making in Cartagena and Barranquilla.

🔗 read the full blog: https://sonic-street-technologies.com/colombian-pico-graphics-vol-1/