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.

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.

LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- L-Acoustics, the leading creator of professional audio technology, in collaboration with Black Meteor, today launched "The Art of Sound," an illuminating ...

When exposed to stress and strain, materials can display a wide range of different properties. By using sound waves, scientists have begun to explore fundamental stress behaviors in a crystalline ...

The new study, led by assistant professor of applied physics and physics Peter Rakich, describes how such long-lived sound waves can be both efficiently generated and controlled using laser light.

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.