Without sound design, film would be a bland medium. A character would walk into a room, and you wouldn’t hear footsteps. Crickets wouldn’t chirp on a summer night. The patter of rain in a forest would ...

“Everything I do is about accuracy and precision ... Ramping up the tension was not done solely through sound design, as composer Volker Bertelmann’s score also lent a hand. “I was thinking about the ...

Re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor Leff Lefferts tells IndieWire about how Roz (Lupita Nyong'o) needed to sound and feel. What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot ...

Trevor Burke walks into a grocery store and picks out various fruits and vegetables. Then, back in his room, he smashes a fresh watermelon with a hammer in front of a microphone covered with a towel.

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Sound pros explain how they created a wooden boy, a Mars rover, a flooded cave in Thailand and placed the King of Rock ’n’ Roll onstage in Las Vegas. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor The Mars rover ...

NBA Jam” was beloved by players and served as an introduction to basketball for many of them. The game didn’t mirror the ...

Larinioides sclopetarius, commonly known as bridge spiders, are orb-weavers that listen to the environment through their webs. Junpeng Lai Humans aren’t very good listeners. Not compared to some ...

When filmmaker Jonathan Glazer sent sound designer Johnnie Burn the script for his Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest” a year before production even began, Glazer laid down clear guidelines for the ...

Before getting to what was done just with the music, let’s talk about some of the sensory extremes involved in the 1939 film’s 4D upgrade. “Obviously, the tornado is an opportunity for us to do ...