The Art of Foley: Bringing Slimer & Batman to life
When it comes to film sound, "Foley Artist" might be the most important job you've never heard of. These performers record custom, synchronized sound effects to create the sounds for characters' foots...
9 Juni 202123min
Leaky Pipeline: The fight that revolutionized cinema sound
In the late 80s, a small French company found a way to pair analog film with pristine digital audio. But getting their system into theaters would involve a long legal battle, hiding out in a Vegas bat...
26 Maj 202127min
Auditory Icons: Credit card beeps to driverless car melodies
We live in a designed world, and alert tones are no exception. Every beep and ping that your phone or laptop makes probably went through multiple rounds of revisions and approvals. So what separates a...
19 Maj 202116min
Progression Obsession: Pop music’s most used chord changes
There are a few specific chord progressions that show up again and again in popular music. Across hundreds of hit songs, the same basic musical formulas have been used by artists ranging from Lynyrd S...
12 Maj 202128min
SM7: The mic that shaped sound and culture
Since their founding almost a century ago, Shure has created some of the most iconic microphones ever made. In this episode, we worked with Shure to tell the story of the SM7 dynamic microphone: from ...
28 Apr 202122min
The Sound of Minecraft: A melancholy masterpiece w/ C418
Since its official release in 2011, Minecraft has grown from a small, experimental indie game into the best-selling video game of all time. Today, the game's haunting music and quirky sound effects ar...
14 Apr 202126min
20th Century Fox Fanfare: A family legacy
The melodic fanfare that introduces every 20th Century Fox movie was first composed almost a hundred years ago. Since then, it's become one of the most enduring and recognizable pieces of music in mod...
24 Mars 202127min
Sonic Weapons: How “sound cannons” are used for control
The Long-Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, was developed for the military for long-range communication at sea. But this ear-splitting device has also been fired on protesters across America, resulting i...
10 Mars 202123min
