George Lucas once said, “The sound and music are 50 percent of the entertainment in a movie.” It’s a quote you hear many pay lip service to, but the reality is that’s not how we think about movies. If ...

A new partnership between the Oakland Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment and the Game Audio Institute seeks to create ...

As the only university in the country that offers B.F.A, M.A., and M.F.A degrees in sound design, it would be easy for the Savannah College of Art and Design to simply tout that fact as a selling ...

Tony Award-nominated sound designer Kai Harada is a sonic wizard with 20 Broadway credits to his name. But “The Band’s Visit,” the hit new musical that whispers rather than roars and boasts mobile ...

The complexities of bringing immersive audio to the home viewer When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Immersive sound for broadcasting ...

In Baby Driver, his fifth collaboration with writer-director Edgar Wright, sound designer Julian Slater found perhaps the greatest challenge of his career that was also his greatest opportunity: a ...

How a horror film sends chills through the audience? What makes an animated film go the extra mile when it comes to physics? Each of these examples requires a completely different approach when it ...

The podcast that I co-produce for KCRW, Here Be Monsters, often floats away from reality into some deeper, darker sonic spaces. There’s layered music, looped ambience, distorted voices and more.

As Riz Ahmed's drummer loses his hearing and learns how to live in the new world he discovers in, 'Sound of Metal' sound editor and designer Nicolas Becker blended unique soundscapes to create an ...

Matthew Magnus Lundeen is a writer, critic, and aspiring cinephile trying way too hard and simultaneously not enough. He writes anime features for Game Rant when he isn't trying to write fiction.