Audio is one of the biggest drivers for keeping audience attention. Simon Wyndham talks about sound design, and why the idea of it begins at a very simple level. In a world where people often watch ...

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 ...

Playing a competitive multiplayer game and hearing an enemy fire off in the distance, walking up to an NPC in a small town to engage in a conversation in an open-world RPG, and having the music change ...

Where did words come from? The traditional view is that the relation between the sound of a word and its meaning is arbitrary. An alternative hypothesis, known as sound symbolism, holds that ...