This blog is the final iteration a series of soundwalk ethnographies aimed at verifying the resilience of the sonidero culture during Covid-19 restrictions. Young researcher Linette Rivera guides us through the streets of Mexico City again, this time in the district of Tepito in October 2021, where the people have designed a strategy to defeat […]
The SST project is keen to document the impact that the pandemic had on the activity of sonic street technologies worldwide, in both bad and good ways. The ban on sessions and the increased police repression are among the most common negative outcomes experienced by all SST scenes at different latitudes.
Les sound systems tekno sont une composante de ces Sonic Street Technologies qui autour du monde ont été touchées par les mesures de restriction sanitaire. De ce point de vue, si les événements musicaux en streaming proposent un autre type d’expérience non dénué d’intérêt (cf. blog de Brian D’Aquino), ils ne peuvent prétendre se substituer […]
Tekno sound systems are a part of those Sonic Street Technologies that have been most severely affected by the health restriction measures around the world. In this respect, while streaming music events are a valuable type of experience, they cannot substitute for collective and intensive sound experiences of these physical spaces of expression and sociability, […]
SST is pleased to welcome a new guest blogger from Mexico City. Young researcher Linette Rivera takes us through a sound walk across two cradles of the sonidero culture in Mexico City, Mercado Jamaica and Mercado Sonora, to check out whether the sonideros were playing out despite Covid19-related restrictions. — The sonideros parties in […]