Long before radio became mainstream entertainment, Edgar Allen Poe was already writing for the airwaves. Throughout the last decade of his life, his poetry and prose bristled with words and phrasing ...

MACOMB (CBS 62) - His work appears on more sound effects products than anyone on the planet and he's from Michigan. Sound effects house Detroit Chop Shop owner Ric Viers started his business as a ...

I was recently watching a scene from the 2025 film Weapons for a monograph I’m writing and noticed a familiar sound: a low, unsettling drone as a character walks down a hallway. It’s the same kind of ...

By weaponizing their aural experience, these movies create a sense of terror that persists even when the viewer looks away. Writer-director Ian Tuason’s new film undertone has entirely sold itself as ...

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 ...

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 ...