A sound clash is a battle between two sound systems. Sound system selectors play only dub plates, which are custom re-recordings of a music artist’s original song. The dub might include new lyrics that identify or big up the battling sound system. The battle involves each system playing their dubs with the crowd as judges. Whoever's songs get more »forwards« (crowd noise), wins the battle.

A sound system yard is a place where you’d usually go to build, repair, or test your system’s technical components. At Jam One’s yard, you could sip a Magnum Tonic or get your car Turtle Waxed as you waited for your speaker box to get refurbished. Learn about the various forms a sound system or sound system yard can take via Sonic Street Technologies (SST). The SST research team is building a global map of sound systems around the world, aiming  to »to investigate the social, economic and cultural conditions from which sound systems, like Jam One’s, are born; and to achieve a deeper understanding of the nature of technology itself.«

I came to know Jorian Charlton through her work photographing Toronto’s queer rave scene. In her photo exhibit, Out of Many, her documentation of Jamaica’s Toronto diaspora of today is presented alongside her father’s photo-documentation of his migration from Jamaica to New York City and Toronto in the 70s.