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 ...

IG user 1amsiny0 has created a fascinating sound re-design for A24's 'Backrooms', taking viewers step by step through the ...

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 ...

“I just always felt like sound, and sound design, and sound effects, and creating a world of sound was something that was really, really attractive to me,” says sound designer Craig Henighan. His love ...

The Zone of Interest is one of the most harrowing and memorable movies released in the last year. It presents a unique perspective on the Holocaust, telling one story with its visuals while revealing ...

Everything from underwater squishing to wartime radio broadcasts gave inspiration to these theater makers: Here are the 2022 Orlando Sentinel honorees in sound design as selected by theater critic ...

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.

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 ...

Tony Award-winning sound designer Mikhail Fiksel discusses his work on Mexodus and how live looping functions as the ...

The latest episode of the Made by Google Podcast (S5 E2) goes into the sound (and haptics) design on Pixel devices. At a high-level, sounds are meant to reflect the Google Pixel design principles of ...

While a game’s visuals are obviously front and centre for most players, sound design plays an integral role in immersing you in a creator’s world. Whether it’s subtle ambience or sweeping orchestral ...

An experienced and skilled sound designer with horror expertise is needed to assist the existing sound designer on board the post-production, who is currently working alone. The sound designer will ...