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© SAM KENDALL
A personal studio for my commercial thinking, intellectual exploration, and creative practice.
LATEST WORK
The attention bottleneck
Getting your ad on TV or your track on the radio used to mean you'd made it. Today, you can reach more people from your bedroom than a...
Encountering sound
There's a sound you remember, but you can't place. Not a melody. Not a word. More like a texture. A pressure in the air. It arrives...
Practising realism
To theorise sonic realism is to affirm sound's capacity to exceed, withdraw, resonate. But theory alone does not suffice. Sonic...
Toward a sonic realism
No theory of sound should move forward without turning its head. This chapter stages that turn - not to undo what's been argued, but...
The politics of sound
If sound is real, it must be accounted for. And accounting cannot happen outside politics. A sonic realism worth defending must go...
Phantom frequencies
An ongoing investigation into the sounds that exist in the gaps - frequencies that emerge from interference, resonance, and the spaces...
Sonic object mapping
If sonic objects are real, if they emerge, act, and withdraw, then how do we listen to them? Not as symbols. Not as metaphors. But as...
From reduction to realism
The dominant traditions - scientific, philosophical, aesthetic - have each trimmed sound down to something manageable. Something...
Beyond human ears
If Deleuze helps us rethink sound as encounter, listening beyond the human expands the sonic encounter further - beyond ourselves. A...
Deleuze and the encounter
Sound is unstable. It moves too quickly to be seen, too forcefully to be ignored. It arrives not as symbol, but as event. Not figure,...
Finitude and withdrawal
To say that sound is real is a challenge to more than physics or metaphor. It questions a metaphysical tradition that privileges...
Against manifestationism
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? This question - so often disregarded as a thought...
