In July, Resident Advisor published a long-form Art of Sound feature on the Sunflower Sound System, from the first public test in Gillett Square to a weekend-long residency at GALA. It traces the rig’s lineage — Plastic People, Richard Long’s New York disco systems, Jamaican sound system culture and the hand-built rig at Cosmic Slop — and the decade Sam spent collecting the drivers that finally made it feasible.
“It combines high impact with hi-fi.” — Tom Smith
Sam, Tom Smith and sound engineer Michael Parker talk through the collective effort behind it: the cabinet design, the modelling and placement for each site, and why a sound system is community work before it is anything else. Much of that thinking is exactly what sits behind the SA range.
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