I’m sitting on a sofa in a Bushwick, Brooklyn, studio, surrounded by 39 speakers. Some are hitched to the ceiling, others perched on four-foot-tall stands and arranged in a semi-circle. It’s dead ...

Midge Costin’s inspiring and educational documentary “Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound” seems destined to wind up in the curriculum of film schools across the country. In a short but ...

Sound — be it explosions, music, dialogue or silence — remains one of the least understood aspects of filmmaking, but one sound?editor turned filmmaker explains it all in her new movie. By Carolyn ...

A DJ is a lot like a magician: You can see and hear what's happening, but you don't know how it happens. With the push of a button or twist of a knob, a note trembles, a word distorts, a riff blurs.

Christopher Nolan, Ben Burtt, George Lucas, Walter Murch, and more topline a documentary that highlights the emotion of sound design. Film is so axiomatically regarded as a visual medium that it’s ...

Last week at the Sundance Film Festival, Dolby announced the launch of its “Dolby Institute” at a panel entitled “The Sound of Your Story” on Jan. 20. Details of the Institute were few at the panel, ...

When it’s done right, sound in film doesn’t call attention to itself, it just comes off as perfectly natural. When Chewbacca speaks in the “Star Wars” saga, for instance, he sounds the way a Wookie ...

NBC celebrated Thanksgiving Eve by airing The Making Of The Sound of Music Live!, a special that looks behind the scenes at the preparation for the upcoming live broadcast of the beloved stage musical ...