Month: October 2025

In La La Land, sound isn’t just something that exists in the background. It is woven into the emotional storyline of the film. It guides how we sense the tension between what is real and isn’t. The director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz used sound to show the lines between normal life and achieving… Continue reading The Sound of La La Land

If you have scrolled through any form of social media recently, you have most likely come across ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response videos. ASMR artists create sounds that are meant to relax viewers and give them a soothing tingly sensation. To do this, it is important to use the right equipment with enough depth… Continue reading ASMR and Microphones

I can’t speak for everyone, but my favorite time of year has always been fall. The leaves begin to change color, the air turns crisp, and pumpkin spice coffee takes over every local coffee shop. Walking through campus, I hear cars passing in the distance, conversations blending together, and the steady rhythm of footsteps on… Continue reading The Sound of Autumn

The sound design in the film “Jaws” revolutionized how movies utilized sound to evoke emotion. What is interesting is just how simply this was done. It consists of just two alternating notes, repeated over and over again, yet it became one of the most recognizable sounds in film history and in general. This theme promotes… Continue reading The Jaws Theme – Jack Green

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and Django are all famous spaghetti Westerns. Audio for spaghetti westerns is done differently from almost any other film in how they are recorded. No special mics, booms, or other advanced equipment are used to record the audio when… Continue reading Audio In Spaghetti Western

Walk-up songs have become one of Major League Baseball’s most recognizable traditions, blending sports and music to hype both players and fans. It began gaining popularity in the 1990s when stadium sound systems became more advanced and teams started experimenting with ways to personalize the game-day experience as well as let the players share some… Continue reading Evolution of MLB Walk-Up Songs

When Taylor Swift first told the world she was re-recording her old albums, fans were shocked. Why redo songs we already know by heart? The answer was simple her old record label owned the masters to her first six albums, meaning they controlled how her music was used. So, instead of fighting it, Taylor did… Continue reading Taylor’s Version: How Taylor Swift Reclaimed Her Music

Earlier this year, I watched a musical that grew to be one of my favorites – something I believe was caused not only by its impactful storyline, but also by its use of one of my favorite sound techniques: polyphony. Polyphony is the use of overlapping melodies within a work. It differs from harmonies due… Continue reading Polyphony in Next to Normal – Kate McGill

I heard this cover of one of my favorite Bring Me The Horizon songs the other day. After hearing this and really enjoying it, I couldn’t help but think about all the differences between this cover and the real song. There are just so many tiny differences yet we can still hear identify that it… Continue reading Song Covers and Exact Sound

With my background in musical theatre, it’s no wonder that my brain is primed to enjoy albums that have some kind of narrative. I latch onto lyrics and leitmotifs, endlessly dissecting them to pieces because that’s what successful actors have to do to understand their source material. It also happens be what I love, and… Continue reading Will Wood’s SELF-iSH: A Musical Descent into Insanity