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 screenings, discussion and sound system sessions aims to assess the global impact of sound system cultures. SST commissioned documentary films feature sound systems from Jamaica, India, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and Colombia. SST global team members report on their research work in discussion with SSO sound system professionals, researchers, and students.  

Soul Rockers reggae sound system (Italy) will be in residence over the two days and 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). 

The two-day event is livicated to June Reid (aka Junie Rankin, Nzinga Soundz) and will be attended by her family members. 

Practical info:

SSO#11 will be a hybrid event.  

• If you plan to attend in person, please register at this link for a free ticket.

Goldsmiths Location: Professor Stuart Hall building, room LG01, Goldsmiths, University of London. Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW, Campus map here 

• If you plan to attend online, please register via Zoom using the links below to receive an email with the access details: 

Day 1 – Friday 7th – Online  

Day 2 – Saturday 8th – Online 

Please note: each webinar has a capacity of 100 attendees, so make sure to join early to avoid disappointment. 

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Wednesday 5th November (warm up event) 

5:00pm Dr Moses Iten presentation: Sound System as a Creolising Technology, City & St George’s University, Event link 

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Friday, 7th November — Day 1 

Panels and Film Screenings 

9:30am Welcome and Introduction 

Professor Julian Henriques and Dr Brian D’Aquino (SST Goldsmiths) 

Panel 1: Global Resonances (Australia, India, France) 

Chair: Dr Jean Christophe Sevin (University of Avignon, France) 

10:00am Australia:

• Dr Clare Cooper (University of Sydney): Introduction to the SST Australia research  

• Film: From Powerful Origins. A Honey Trap Sound System Story, 10 min 

• Dr Moses Iten (University of Sydney): A Brief Introduction to the History of Sound System Culture in Australia 

• Film: Heavy! A Congress of Sound Systems in Melbourne/ Naarm, 10 min 

• Dr Andrew Belletty (University of Sydney): Knock ’Em Down Sound System  

• Film:  Knock ’Em Down Sound System, 12 min

• Q&A Session, 15 min 

11:30am: Coffee Break, 15 min

11:45am India, France: 

• Dr Aadita Chaudhury (University of York, Canada)  Reggae Sound Systems in India: Navigating the Space between Local Traditions and Global Cultures  

• Film: Bass Fundation Roots, 10 min 

• Dr Jean-Christophe Sevin (University of Avignon) Setting Up Before the Police: Tactics, Sound Walls, and Skill-Building in Tekno Sound Systems  

• Q&A Session, 15 min 

12:45pm Lunch Break, 60 min 

Panel 2: Music Machines of Mexico and Colombia (Mexico, Colombia, USA) 

Chair: Dr César Rebolledo González, Universidad La Salle, Mexico 

1:45pm: Colombia

• Dr Brian D’Aquino (SST Goldsmiths) Introduction to the SST Colombia research

• Edgar Benítez Fuentes (Independent Researcher, Colombia): Sound Systems and Picós at 2,600 Meters Above Sea Level, Bogotá  

• Film: Sonido, Palabra y Poder (Word, Sound and Power), 10 min 

• Jorge Enrique Giraldo Barbosa (GRECA, Colombia): Technological and Musical Capital in Cartagena’s Súper Picós El Imperio and El Rey de Rocha  

• Miladis Cordoba Rivas and Willinton Albornoz Quejada (Independent Researchers, Colombia): Picotera Culture in Urabá: A Space for Community Resistance and Remembrance 

• Film: Sonando con Proposito (Playing with Purpose), 34 min 

• Q&A Session, 15 min 

3:45pm: Coffee Break, 15 min 

4:00pm: Mexico and USA Diaspora  

• Fernanda Soria Cruz and Paulina Lanz (University of Southern California, USA): Sonic Testimonios: Methodologies on the Diasporic Gendered Voice with the MUSAS Sonideras USA 

• Film: MUSAS Sonideras USA, 22 min 

• Dr Cesar Rebolledo (Universidad La Salle, Mexico): Puebla-York: Memories of the Sonidero Diaspora  

• Film: El sonido de los sueños (The Sound of Dreams), 50 min 

• Q&A Session, 15 min 

6:00pm: End

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Saturday, 8th November — Day 2
Panels and Film Screenings 

10:00am: Welcome and Introduction, June Reid’s livication  

Panel 3: The Jamaican Sound System Diaspora (Jamaica, Canada, UK) 

Chair: Prof Mark Campbell (University of Toronto, Canada) 

10:30: Jamaica 

• Prof Sonjah Stanely Niaah and Dr Dennis Howard (UWI Mona, Jamaica): TBA 

• Film: Sounds of the Future: A Jamaican Sound System Industry Reasoning Session (excerpt), 20 min 

• David Katz (Independent Author and Researcher): Reflections on the Making of ‘Rockers Sound Station’ 

• Film: Rockers Sound Station. Tales of the Kingston Dub Club, 35 min 

• Q&A Session, 15 min 

12:00am Coffee Break, 15 min 

12:15am: Canada, UK 

• Prof Mark Campbell (University of Toronto): TBA 

• Alanna Stuart (Queen’s University, Canada): Me Di Deh: The Impact of the Presence of Queer and Female-led Sound Systems in Toronto’s Caribbean Diaspora 

• Mandeep Samra and Gopal Dutta (Independent Researchers): Music, Technology and Community in 1980s Huddersfield

• Q&A Session, 15 min 

1:30pm Lunch, 60 min

Panel 4: Sounds of Brazil  

Chair: Dr Marcus Ramusyo Brasil (IFMA, Brazil) 

2:30pm

• Dr Marcus Ramusyo Brasil (IFMA, Brazil): Cutting-edge and ancestral technologies in the Reggae Experience: Inscriptions on a Body Outside and Inside Itself 

• Dr Leo Vidigal (UFMG, Brazil): Radiolas as Cultural Catalysts: The Case of Natty Nayfson in Maranhão, Brazil 

• Film: Natty Nayfson, the Prince of Freedom, 10 min 

• Bruno Barboza Muniz (Independent Researcher): Assemblages of Sound and Struggle in Rio de Janeiro’s Baile Funk Scene  

3:25 Coffee Break, 15 min

• Daniella Pimenta (Independent Researcher) and Marcelo Yokoi (PPGAS / USP, Brazil): Women at the Front: Breaking Barriers in the Brazilian Sound System 

• Film: Street, Gender and Sound: The Feminine Hi-Fi Experience, 10 min 

• Natalia Figueredo (University of Barcelona, Spain) and Maria Luiza de Barros (FAU-USP, Brazil): Treme: A Dialogue Between Dance and Sound Technology in Aparelhagens  

• Gisela Castro (ESPM, Brazil) and Roberto Gonzaga (USP, PUC-SP, Brazil): Sound Assemblages and Urban Ecologies of Noise: the DZ7 Experience in Paraisópolis, São Paulo.  

• Q&A Session, 15 min 

5pm

•  Prof Julian Henriques, Dr Brian D’Aquino, Siufan Adey (SST Goldsmiths): SST Video Archiving, Sonic Mapping and SSO futures: 

5.15-10:00pm

Soul Rockers sound system (Italy) in session

with guest selectors Tiny T, Asher G, Doc Murdoc, Naoko the Rock and Enrico (Hep Time).