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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. If you’re like most people, your workload is heavy, and it ...

We call filmmakers “visionary” when they bring wondrous, strange or frightening worlds to life. But vision is just half the equation. To be truly immersive and transporting, a film or television show ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing about wine, spirits and related travel and hospitality. In a trial, about 2700 liters of Pinot Gris are to be exposed to ...

One of the most common human responses to music is to move to it. Our bodies respond to music in conscious and unconscious ways. The urge to move to music is universal among humans. Listeners react to ...

GM says that audio streaming will come standard on all 2025 and newer cars in the U.S. and Canada at no additional cost for ...

New research explores music's impact on learning, memory, and emotions in two studies. One reveals that familiar music can enhance concentration and learning, while the other demonstrates that music ...

As the sounds that I'm making right now enter your ear, your brain is effortlessly turning those air vibrations into a sentence that has meaning. Now, if we start to distort my voice, your brain has a ...

A battle is being waged at the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station near downtown Los Angeles. The weapon of choice? Loud classical music. The classical music — along with floodlights at either end ...

AI is everywhere. Here’s how to spot it. This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Exposing AI” series. We’re exploring six different types of AI-generated media, and highlighting the common quirks, ...