At the heart of every filmmaking decision is one question: Where is the audience in relationship to what is happening on screen? One of the most common approaches to answering this question is through ...

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 ...

As a native New Yorker and former theater kid, I have had the pleasure of watching over 15 Broadway shows in my lifetime. With every experience comes the magic of a story coming to life on stage, ...

Long gone are the days where games were limited solely to the bleeps and bloops of retro processors and sound chips – but that doesn't mean today's expansive 3D sandboxes are safe from sounding ...

Sound design in video games is like the magic ingredient that makes the game’s world come alive. It’s not just about the music or the sound effects you hear when something happens in the game. It’s ...

The 2024 Tony Awards will be revealed on Sunday, June 16, and one of the esteemed nominees is sound designer Bray Poor, who is nominated with Will Pickens for “Best Sound Design of a Play” for their ...

Creating transportive soundscapes, here are the 2025 Orlando Sentinel honorees for best sound design as selected by theater critic Matthew J. Palm. Although it’s impossible for one person to see every ...

Hank Whitson is a pop culture omnivore, gaming geek, escapism nerd, and unrepentant anime addict who has been writing for Game Rant since 2020. He plays and writes about literally everything, but ...

Inside Darius Marder and Nicholas Becker's experiment to create subjectivity through a point of hearing. At the heart of every filmmaking decision is one question: Where is the audience in ...