The Sound · Seattle Baseline · Issue 00 Membership
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Photo by Kevin Kirkpatrick · Capitol Hill · 2026
Baseline Issue 00 · Winter 2026

The Sound’s printed journal. A substantial print issue at a planned cadence of three a year — essays on Seattle tennis, conversations with coaches, players, and the people building around the game.

Baseline.
A printed journal
from The Sound.

A limited first edition, hand-sent. Issue 00 is in development for 2026. Founding Patron members included.

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I — What this is Specimen · 01

A printed journal,
not a blog.

Baseline is The Sound’s printed journal. A substantial print issue at a planned cadence of three a year, printed on uncoated stock. Sized to land on a desk or a coffee table and stay there a while.

Written by the people The Sound is actually being built with — coaches, players, designers, chefs and restaurateurs, members — as those voices come together. Nothing ghost-written. Nothing borrowed from a brand book.

Baseline is included with the Sound Founding Patron Membership — or available on its own by subscription.

Format
Substantial print issue
Paper
Uncoated stock
Edition
Limited first edition
Cadence
Planned three per year
II — Contents

Editorial territories
for Issue 00.

The themes Issue 00 is being built around — concrete editorial directions, not promised assignments. The final lineup is being shaped with contributors as the issue comes together.

A/01 — A/06 · In development
A/01 Opening essay

The case for better tennis access in Seattle.

Why a private membership and an indoor court network are part of the same answer to a problem most serious players already feel each week.

Editorial direction
A/02 Reportage

The culture of where Seattle plays now.

A look at the rooms, courts, and rituals that hold the city’s tennis culture together today — before The Sound exists.

Editorial direction
A/03 Architecture & hospitality

The room after the match.

Architecture, design, and hospitality around sport — what makes a tennis space feel like somewhere you’d stay an extra hour.

Editorial direction
A/04 Conversations

Coaches, players, designers, builders.

In-conversation pieces with the people working in and around the game — bylines confirmed as those voices come together.

Editorial direction
A/05 From the founding

The early programme, and what we’re learning.

A practical record of the first Sound Sessions, partner gatherings, and member experiences — what worked, what we’d change, what we’re testing next.

Editorial direction
A/06 From the members

A founding member’s year.

A profile shaped with an early Founding Member: how the membership fits into a real week, what made it useful, who they brought into it.

Editorial direction
III — Excerpt From A/01 · p. 04
“The argument for The Sound is not that Seattle has no tennis. It is that many players still struggle to make regular access feel easy, dependable, and worth organising their lives around.”
— Kevin Kirkpatrick, founder From the opening essay

The opening essay sits with the problem most serious Seattle players already feel each week — the difficulty of getting reliable court time, the cost of assembling a group, and the friction that quietly keeps people from playing as much as they’d want.

Membership begins the answer; Courts and Club extend it as the community grows.

Issue 00 is in development. Founding Patron members receive a copy hand-sent.

IV — Contributors

Issue 00
contributors.

Bylines come together as Issue 00 is built — the founder, working journalists, teaching pros, designers, and Founding Members invited into the issue. Nothing ghost-written. Final lineup confirmed in print.

A · Essay

Kevin Kirkpatrick

Founder. Writes the opening essay and edits Baseline.

B · Reportage

Working journalists

On the culture-of-play piece. Bylines confirmed in print as the reporting comes together.

C · In conversation

Coaches & players

A small set of voices from the Seattle tennis world — teaching pros, longtime players, the people who know the game from inside it.

D · Architecture & design

Designers & builders

Conversations with the architects, designers, and operators thinking through what a serious tennis space in Seattle could feel like. Bylines confirmed as plans firm up.

E · Letters

Founding members

Short notes from the first cohort of members — what they joined for, what they’re hoping for, what they’d want to see next. Edited lightly, otherwise as written.

V — Reserve Closing · Baseline No. 00

Hold a copy of
Issue 00.

Five hundred numbered copies. Hand-sent in February 2026. Three issues a year after — spring, summer, autumn.

Single copy $32 · plus shipping

Hand-numbered, posted from Seattle.

Three-issue year $84 · subscribers

Winter, summer, and the late autumn issue.

Founding members Included, signed

Three issues a year, every year. Signed on the back page.

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