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Keith Bound: How Sounds Optimise Audience Engagement in Movies

August 8, 2018 by Ethan Grafton

Image from LinkedIn In the 6th part of his Science of Storytelling series, Keith Bound PhD outlines the specific psychological effects of common horror-thriller sounds on moviegoers. "When a diegetic sound resonates with the viewers as a recognizable threat to the protagonist or themselves the viewer, it not only elicits a strong anxiety response but does so very … [Read more...]

Sunday Sound Thought 46 – Attuned to Distortion

November 13, 2016 by Shaun Farley

As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… One of the podcasts I listen to is The Naked Scientists, and they recently had an entire episode dedicated to … [Read more...]

Sunday Sound Thought 18 – Dependent Perception

May 1, 2016 by Shaun Farley

As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… I've had this one in the topic queue for a while, but couldn't quite figure out how to approach it here...until … [Read more...]

Psychology of 10 Years of Sound in World of Warcraft

December 11, 2014 by Jack Menhorn

   For this month's topic of "Psychoacoustics" I thought I'd stretch the definition a bit and finally write an article I have wanted to for a while now, and discuss the sound design of World of Warcraft. Specifically the unscientific observations of someone (me) who has regularly experienced these sounds for fully 1/3 of their life. What I would like to discuss are my own … [Read more...]

Sonnenschein's Webinar Report: Week III – Rules Of the Brain Road

September 29, 2010 by Miguel Isaza

Today is the fourth webinar from the Sound Design for Pros webinar series of David Sonnenschein. I'm going to give you a little reprot about last week's work. The las webinar was really great. David started reviewing several of the homework sent for that class. Then he talked about brain, and how humans perceive sound and process it. He give us a lot of different techniques … [Read more...]

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