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Sonic Art Studios: the Dominican studio only its credits tell about

Published October 20, 2026

Sonic Art Studios is a recording studio in Dominica which has, in the public sources consulted, no website, no published address and no verified official page. It exists only through its credits, and those credits are precise. In 2015, the voice over of the winning film of the Dominica Film Challenge, produced for the Discover Dominica Authority, was recorded there by Sabrina Bully. In 2023, the bouyon record “How De Band Playing”, by Mr Delly on a composition by Earlson “Likkle Man” Matthew, was recorded and mixed there, with a full band of named musicians. And on “To The City”, sung by Peter Prospere, the same Earlson Matthew is credited with the recording, mixing and mastering there. Three verified traces, one named engineer, no commercial document: this profile publishes those three traces in full, says what they establish, and states just as clearly what the file does not contain. It is a short profile because the file is thin, and it says so.

A studio that exists only in credits

The first thing to establish about Sonic Art Studios fits in one sentence: in every source opened for this profile, the studio never appears presenting itself. It always appears inside someone else document, a film credit block, an official video description, at the end of a credit line. Its most frequent published form is a fused handle, “@sonicartstudios”, as written in the YouTube descriptions of the two Dominican records in this file. The full form, “Sonic Art Studios”, appears in the credits of the 2015 film, with its location: “in Dominica”. That credit block is what fixes the studio country, and no source consulted fixes its town.

That documentary invisibility is not a research detail, it is the very subject of this profile. Dominica holds studios whose work circulates through recent bouyon but whose infrastructure stays out of frame: no showcase website, no company listing carried by the press, no verified socials. Their names survive where artists and composers take the trouble to write them, in the credits. When a credit says “recorded and mixed @sonicartstudios”, it does in one line what no article has done: it archives the place where the record was made.

One confusion kept by the search engines also has to be cleared. The name Sonic Art, or very close names, belongs to other studios in other countries, including a studio in Nashville in the United States and a studio in Barcelona in Spain, which have no documented link with the studio of this profile. This profile speaks only of the Dominican studio, the one the 2015 credits place “in Dominica” and the one the Earlson Matthew record descriptions credit in the form @sonicartstudios. Any fact that cannot be tied to one of those three traces is excluded from the file.

2015: a voice over for the official Dominica Film Challenge film

The oldest trace in the file is not a bouyon record, it is a film promoting the island. The Vimeo page opened for this profile presents the winning film of the 2015 Dominica Film Challenge, produced and realized by Riot House for Discover Dominica, with the Discover Dominica Authority, the island tourism authority, as client and Bolin Marketing as agency. Its published credits contain the line this profile stands on: “Voice Over by Sabrina Bully recorded at Sonic Art Studios in Dominica”.

That line establishes three things at once. It dates the studio activity: it was already working in 2015, close to ten years before the bouyon records in this file. It fixes its country without ambiguity, inside the credit text itself. And it shows a kind of work the other two traces do not show: spoken voice recording for an institutional film, alongside a sound design credited to Damien Bour and Alice Bortolazzo, and a thanks to Sheldon Casimir for voiceover help. The studio of this file was therefore not born with the bouyon of the 2020s: by the middle of the 2010s it was already serving the official audiovisual production of its island.

The same credit block gives the production context of the film, shot over one week in Dominica with cinema cameras, and published as the winning film of the 2015 challenge. For a studio with no other public trace from that period, that single line is worth an archive: it proves that in 2015, when an international production came to record a voice in Dominica on behalf of the tourism authority, this is the studio the credits named.

“How De Band Playing”: the 2023 live session

The second trace is the best documented record in the file. “How De Band Playing” is presented as a 2023 bouyon, in the form Mr Delly x Likkle Man. Its official description, opened for this profile, explains the saying that gives the record its title, “How the band, is so you have to dance”, and applies it to the life situations nobody controls. Its keywords tie the record to bouyon, bouyon soca, Dominica and Dominica Carnival 2023.

The published credits of the record are complete, and they describe a real studio session. The record is written and composed by Earlson “Likkle Man” Matthew, the WCK keyboardist documented on this site, and performed by Delton “Mr. Delly” Alfred. Around them, the bass is played by Elijah JeanJacques, the guitar by Joel Francis, the drums by Nikita “Fridge” Christmas, and the additional vocals bring together Erneil “Shabba” Paul, Dorelle Diolen, Serena Alexander, Syan Davis, Deanna Emmanuel and Michael “Bully / Ti Mal” John. At the bottom of the list, the studio line: recorded and mixed at @sonicartstudios.

That line says two things about the place. First, the studio hosts full bands: a named rhythm section, a lead singer, six additional voices, the format of a musicians bouyon, played rather than programmed. Second, the studio work there covers at least two stages of the making, the recording and the mixing. In a genre where many records are born in unnamed home studios, a credit of this kind, with the place, the musicians and the two stages, is the richest document this file contains. The singer path is read on our Mr Delly profile, and the composer path on our Earlson Matthew profile.

“To The City”: the Earlson Matthew engineer credit

The third trace is the most precise about how the studio works, because it names the person behind the desk. “To The City” is published in the form Likkle Man X Peter Pros. Its official description, opened for this profile, credits the record as composed by Earlson “Likkle Man” Matthew and performed by Peter Prospere, with Monelle “High Speed” Mondesire on guitar and Keith Goddard on bass, and the graphic design to Kester Labad. Then comes the central line of the file: recorded, mixed and mastered at @sonicartstudios by Earlson “Likkle Man” Matthew himself.

That wording separates the place and the hand with care. The place, Sonic Art Studios, is the one in the two music traces of the file. The hand is the composer: on this record, Earlson Matthew is not only the writer of the music, he is also the engineer who records, mixes and finishes the released product. It is the only time, in the opened sources, where a person name is attached to the work of the studio, and this profile publishes it exactly that way: Earlson Matthew is the named engineer of one session of the studio, not, in the documents consulted, its declared founder or owner, and no source says whether he works there permanently or record by record.

The description publishes no readable release date, and this profile invents none for it. Its keywords tie the record to bouyon, WCK, Dominica, Triple Kay and the World Creole Music Festival, and mention the bouyon seasons 2025 and 2026, which places it in the composer recent period without dating its release. Taken together, the two music traces show a repeated use of the same place by the same composer, several years apart inside the file: a regular workshop, at least for this musician, rather than a room hired once.

The people around the studio, and what the file does not say

By joining the three traces, the people the documents attach to the studio can be named, and only they. On the voices and musicians side: Delton “Mr. Delly” Alfred and Peter Prospere on lead vocals, Sabrina Bully on the voice over of the 2015 film, and the players and backing singers of the two sessions, Elijah JeanJacques, Joel Francis, Nikita “Fridge” Christmas, Monelle “High Speed” Mondesire, Keith Goddard, Erneil “Shabba” Paul, Dorelle Diolen, Serena Alexander, Syan Davis, Deanna Emmanuel and Michael “Bully / Ti Mal” John. On the making side: Earlson “Likkle Man” Matthew, composer of both records and named engineer of “To The City”. No other name is published as studio staff in the sources consulted.

The rest is silence, and this profile records it instead of filling it. No source consulted gives the studio town, an address, a phone number or a rate. None names a founder, an owner or a manager. None gives a founding year: the 2015 film proves an activity at that date, not a birth. None publishes a catalog of records made within its walls, beyond the two records in this file. And no official page of the studio was verified during this research: the structured data of this page therefore carries no external link, and its track list is limited to the two recordings whose official descriptions name the studio.

That silence has a practical consequence for the reader: a studio profile usually serves to book a session. This one cannot, for lack of any published and verified contact, and it points to no unverified page. It serves something else, which is the function of this site: to fix in writing, with their sources, credits that video descriptions hold today and that nothing guarantees tomorrow. If the studio one day publishes a website, an address or a catalog, this profile will be completed and dated. In the meantime, the context of the records born there is read on our Earlson Matthew, Mr Delly and World Creole Music Festival pages, and their listening in our bouyon playlist.

Frequently asked questions

What is Sonic Art Studios?

It is a recording studio in Dominica, known only through the credits that name it. A 2015 film credit block names it for a voice over recording, and the official descriptions of two bouyon records by Earlson “Likkle Man” Matthew name it for recording and mixing, in the form @sonicartstudios. No source consulted publishes its address, its owner or its website.

Where is Sonic Art Studios located?

In Dominica, and that is all the sources establish. The location comes from the credits of the winning film of the 2015 Dominica Film Challenge, which write “recorded at Sonic Art Studios in Dominica”. No source consulted names the town, the district or the address of the studio, and this profile does not guess them.

Which records were made at Sonic Art Studios?

Two bouyon records are documented by their official descriptions. “How De Band Playing”, a 2023 bouyon by Mr Delly on a composition by Earlson “Likkle Man” Matthew, was recorded and mixed there, with a full band of named musicians. And “To The City”, sung by Peter Prospere, was recorded, mixed and mastered there by Earlson Matthew himself. No other record is attributed to the studio in the opened sources.

Who works at Sonic Art Studios?

The only person name attached to the work of the studio in the sources consulted is Earlson “Likkle Man” Matthew, credited as the engineer of the recording, mixing and mastering of “To The City”, and as composer of both records in the file. No source names a founder, an owner or another engineer of the studio, and this profile does not present Earlson Matthew as its owner.

What is the oldest trace of Sonic Art Studios?

A 2015 film. The published credits of the winning film of the 2015 Dominica Film Challenge, produced by Riot House for the Discover Dominica Authority, credit the voice over by Sabrina Bully as recorded at Sonic Art Studios, in Dominica. The studio was therefore already working at that date, on spoken voice work for an island promotion film, before the bouyon traces of 2023 and the following years.

Is Sonic Art Studios the studio of the same name in Nashville or Barcelona?

No, nothing in the sources links those studios together. Studios carrying the name Sonic Art, singular or plural, exist in several countries, including Nashville in the United States and Barcelona in Spain, and searches on this name mix them. The studio of this profile is only the one the 2015 credits place in Dominica and the one the Earlson Matthew record credits name @sonicartstudios.

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