Other examples in the second half of “Making Waves” range from illuminating to slightly baffling. Automated Dialogue Replacement, or ADR, is the art of recording dialogue in post-production.

Sound is the first sense we experience as human beings, but it’s one we often take for granted. We pay attention when our favorite song is playing, or when the score in a movie begins to swell.

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, out Oct. 25, dives into game-changing films from The Jazz Singer to Star Wars.

Sound Wave, a 20-foot-long piece of art to be installed directly in front of the Orchestra Iowa ticket office near The Paramount Theatre, should help change that.

Insight Making Waves is full of entertaining and insightful anecdotes like that. Other interviewees include directors George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch and Ang Lee and sound ...

Use different noise-making objects to cause sound waves and make sand move! Sound waves are invisible to our eyes; unless we find a way to make the sound waves move something that we can see. In ...

MØ's performance at the Wiltern was sonically impressive, thanks in no small parts to Waves, a software company that is used in recording studios, live performances and consumer products.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have managed to make sound waves travel only in one direction. In the future, this method could also be used in technical applications with electromagnetic waves.

Film Review: ‘Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound’ A lively movie-love documentary looks at the history of sound design in Hollywood, as innovated by artists of technology like Walter Murch.