Sound Theory from Sound Practice

✍ Scribed by Murray, Leo

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sound Design Theory and Practice is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the
concepts which underpin the creative decisions that inform the creation of sound
design.

A fundamental problem facing anyone wishing to practice, study, teach or
research about sound is the lack of a theoretical language to describe the way sound
is used and a comprehensive and rigorous overarching framework that describes all
forms of sound. With the recent growth of interest in sound studies, there is an
urgent need to provide scholarly resources that can be used to inform both the
practice and analysis of sound. Using a range of examples from classic and con-
temporary cinema, television and games this book provides a thorough theoretical
foundation for the artistic practice of sound design, which is too frequently seen as
a ‘technical’ or secondary part of the production process.

Engaging with practices in film, television and other digital media, Sound Design
Theory and Practice provides a set of tools for systematic analysis of sound for both
practitioners and scholars.

✦ Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 Theories of Sound
3 Audiovisual Theories of Sound
4 Sound as a Sign
5 Analysing Sound with Semiotics
6 King Kong (1933)
7 No Country for Old Men
8 Sound in Non-fiction
9 Sound in Video Games
10 Sound in Practice

✦ Subjects

Sound, Sound Design