Accurate yet imaginative audio is part of what creates truly immersive film and TV. Dialogue, music, and sound effects work synergistically to legitimize a sense of filmic reality, set mood, and ...

Ever since the dawn of time, sound has been a unifying force allowing us to tap deep into the emotions that lie buried within. Through chanting, preaching, celebrating, crying, dancing and living, we ...

Silence might not be deafening, but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...

The world is full of sounds, and sound can affect us greatly. Some sounds are pleasant, like the laughter of a small child or a babbling brook in a peaceful forest. Other sounds are unpleasant, like ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...

Silence might not be deafening but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...