About

We are no.name.sound, a collective of soundworkers, technologists and artists developing sound system infrastructure for organisers and activists.

By sound system infrastructure, we mean a system for providing, operating and maintaining sound systems. As part of this, we are also prototyping sound system designs suited to a variety of accessibility needs.

This is an emergent enquiry into how the provision of sound systems can be systematised through distributed governance processes that centre the following key values: accessibility, care, sustainability, accountability.

This work is indebted to legacies of sound system culture, political organising, black feminist technology and co-operatives, within the UK and internationally.

Here is what we are currently working on:

  • Prototyping sound system designs that respond to a variety of access needs

  • Developing protocols for distributed governance

  • Building and maintaining networks between soundworkers, organisers and activists

  • Researching and compiling historical and contemporary case studies

  • Writing texts that animate ideas, learnings and reflections generated through project development