Roger pays homage to the tradition of reggae and dub sound systems in Jamaica and the UK, while attaining a versatility needed for many other genres of music and live sound applications.

The speaker enclosure choices and tuning of the system were inspired by the music that Robert plays in his Listening at Pungwe project with Memory Biwa. It aims to capture and enhance the bass and punchy hits of afropop, amapiano, reggae and dub, and to reveal all the nuance of jazz and traditional african music.

The bass bins are a modern take on the traditional "scoop" called the Hog Scoop, designed by Stipe Ercegovic in 2006. They capture bass weight associated with scoops, with improved time domain performance due to the way the front of the driver interacts with the horn mouth.

The kick bins and midrange horns are from French designer Marc O.. I modified the kicks to be two smaller, single speaker horns, rather than the original double, to allow for the system to be split into two stacks. I also reduced the midrange horn to a "skeleton" version of the original large, trapezoidal MT-130 bin, placing the RCF high frequency horns in custom aluminum frames with a 5 degree downward angle for better nearfield coverage.

Although Roger was designed in the context of an art installation, the sound system itself should not be considered art. It should be considered a community utility for the collective experience of sound and it will not enter the art market or be speculated with.