The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
In part 2 of our exploration of Foley, the Warner Brothers Foley team takes us into the all-importan
When it comes to film sound, "Foley Artist" might be the most important job you've never heard of. T
In the late 80s, a small French company found a way to pair analog film with pristine digital audio.
We live in a designed world, and alert tones are no exception. Every beep and ping that your phone o
There are a few specific chord progressions that show up again and again in popular music. Across hu
Since their founding almost a century ago, Shure has created some of the most iconic microphones eve
Since its official release in 2011, Minecraft has grown from a small, experimental indie game into t
The melodic fanfare that introduces every 20th Century Fox movie was first composed almost a hundred
The Long-Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, was developed for the military for long-range communication
Since its introduction in 2003, the McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle has become one of the most rec
What is sound, on a fundamental level? How did animals evolve to hear? And what happens when you go
Synesthesia is a neurological condition where one sensory experience gets combined with another, mea
After composer Eric Whitacre finished Virtual Choir number 5 in 2018, he thought the project might b
Alan Lomax believed that the culture of poor Americans was important and worthy of saving. So he spe
Sci-fi and fantasy creators often use constructed languages (or conlangs) to help us believe that th
We've all heard the iconic recordings from the Apollo missions. But how exactly does NASA manage to
Technology has the power to transform the way our world sounds. It could even give us entirely new w
Sound surrounds us, even in the quietest moments. But depending on how we hear, the world can be a d
For hundreds of years, composers have been using a specific four-note melody to evoke death. It's ap
People with perfect or "absolute" pitch hear every single sound as precise musical notes. Is this ex
