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SST Annual Report for 2024 

With this first blog of 2025, the SST Goldsmiths team reflects on the achievements and challenges of the past year. Research-wise, we find ourselves in a strong position, having accomplished many objectives and successfully completed numerous tasks. This progress is largely thanks to the enthusiasm and hard work of our global team of researchers and […]

  • Posted on 14 January 2025
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Explorando a Pesquisa sobre Aparelhagem

Mapear as pesquisas e documentações existentes sobre tecnologias sonoras de rua é um ponto de partida essencial para qualquer investigação mais aprofundada. Por esse motivo, o SST comprometeu-se a publicar bibliografias anotadas sobre as diversas cenas de sistemas de som ao redor do mundo. Essas bibliografias são cuidadosamente elaboradas por pesquisadores locais e incluem não […]

  • Posted on 16 December 2024
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Exodus, Resistance, and the Stoppage of Time: Sonido Murillo, Monterrey

by Yasodari Sánchez Zavala My uncle Raúl was older, he started with orchestral music, danzón, mambo, cha-cha… He first started with that music and then my dad added another rhythm, cumbia, and that’s when everyone started dancing, the rhythm started to change from tropical to Colombian, the two of them were old school sonideros, but […]

  • Posted on 4 December 2024
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SST Annual Report for 2024 

With this first blog of 2025, the SST Goldsmiths team reflects on the achievements and challenges of the past year. Research-wise, we find ourselves in a strong position, having accomplished many objectives and successfully completed numerous tasks. This progress is largely thanks to the enthusiasm and hard work of our global team of researchers and […]

  • Posted on 14 January 2025
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Futuring a Century of Sound

What does the future hold for sonic street technologies scenes? While we don’t know the answer to this, we do know the intergenerational transmission of the culture is an issue for many scenes around the world. We also know that one of the project’s briefs is to try to find out. Hence the need to […]

  • Posted on 31 October 2024
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Sonic map

Launched in September 2022, the Sonic Map aims to provide an extensive coverage of different type of sound systems operating across the globe. It focuses on the three main elements which make an SST: the sound technologies employed, the crew which operates them, and the environment in which they operate. It aims to give exposure to the diverse but equally vibrant street sonic cultures, allow comparison between different SST, foster mutual recognition and cross-fertilisation between practitioners and aficionados from different backgrounds, and provide fellow researchers and academic institutions with a glimpse of what is currently happening out on the streets.

The Sonic Map is an open-project which relies on the crucial collaboration of the SST communities involved. If you know, own or operate an SST which is not currently listed on the map, or if you notice some amendments needed in an existing entry, please contribute!

Sonic Street Technologies (SST) is a European Research Council (ERC) funded research project (2021 – 2025)

The project aims to map the distribution and history of these SST worldwide; to investigate the social, economic and cultural conditions from which they are born; and to achieve a deeper understanding of the nature of technology itself and its uses for social and economic progress.