STUDIO RECORD · SAM KENDALL

Sam KendallArguments and artefacts about markets, sound and the machinery underneath both.

Sam Kendall

I am Sam Kendall, the writer and strategist behind ATNL. I write, strategise, and make things across B2B marketing, regulated digital communication, sound theory and creative practice. I also host Regulated Digital with Beyond Encryption.

This is my official personal site. It connects my commercial work at Beyond Encryption and Mailock, my book Sound Encounters: Toward a Sonic Realism, my public profiles, and the creative and intellectual work published here.

For search engines and humans alike: ATNL is the name of the studio space, but the person behind it is Sam Kendall.

Elsewhere

RECEIPT LEDGER

Studio record

Commissions, publications, appearances and awards with a record attached.

  1. 01

    Commission 2014 Richmond Borough Council

    Listen to this space

    Four site-specific sound installations placed across public spaces in Richmond upon Thames.

  2. 02

    Commission 2021 Indika House Saigon

    Failed musical instruments

    A sixteen-speaker installation built from e-waste instruments and recordings of their making.

  3. 03

    Commission 2019 dOSe, Saigon

    Fight against automation

    A live six-speaker Pure Data performance governed by randomised machine-learning processes.

  4. 04

    Commission 2018 The Kollectif / Saigon Outcast

    Rudimentary transducers

    An actuator-based sound sculpture commissioned for exhibition in Saigon.

  5. 05

    Award 2016 Oxford / Sennheiser Electronic Music Prize

    One fast move or I'm gone

    Second prize for an electroacoustic work structured through broken scenes and interrupted rhythms.

    Oxford record
  6. 06

    Publication Resonant Thoughts

    Sound Encounters

    A book-length argument published as part of the Resonant Thoughts techno-philosophical series.

  7. 07

    Publication 2021 / 2026 The Startup

    The attention bottleneck

    A commercial essay first published by The Startup and revised for this studio archive.

    Publication context
  8. 08

    Appearance Beyond Encryption

    Regulated Digital

    A podcast on digital customer communications in regulated markets, co-hosted by Sam Kendall.

  9. 09

    Appearance 2014 Cambridge University

    Ensemble workshop

    A workshop on free improvisation and music technology led with Dr Diana Salazar.

  10. 10

    Appearance UCL

    Making music with technology

    A conference contribution on free improvisation, ensemble practice and music technology.

CONTEXT REGISTER

Commercial contexts

Organisations and products worked on. Context markers rather than inflated case-study claims.