Short description:

The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design offers a comprehensive overview of the diverse contexts of creativity and research that characterize contemporary sound design practice. Readers will find expansive coverage of sound design in relation to games, VR, globalization, performance, soundscape, and feminism, amongst other fields.

Long description:

The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design offers a comprehensive overview of the diverse contexts of creativity and research that characterize contemporary sound design practice. Readers will find expansive coverage of sound design in relation to games, VR, globalization, performance, soundscape and feminism, amongst other fields.

Half a century since its formal emergence, this book considers sound design in a plethora of practical contexts, including music, film, soundscape and sonification, as well as the emerging theoretical and analytical approaches being used in scholarship on the subject. The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design tracks how ideas and techniques have migrated from one field to the next, as professionals expand the industry applications for their skills and knowledge, and technologies produce new form factors for entertainment and information.

Collectively, the chapters included in this volume illustrate the robustness and variety of contemporary sound design research and creativity, making The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design essential reading for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners working on sound design in its many forms.

Table of Contents:

1. Listener perspective in games and virtual reality  2. Sciences of sound design. Research in sound design and its interactions with the design discipline  3. The Globalisation of Sound Design  4. Enacting the Environment Through Sound?Reflections on the Use of Cognitive Metaphors as a Design Framework in Sound Interaction Design  5. Cultivating sounds: relational acoustics within the Buchla-Serge paradigm  6. Acid Music and Sound Design: an examination of the sound design techniques used in a selection of acid music tracks  7. Managing Complexity in Multi-Device Environments  8. Performative Sound Design: A Cultural Perspective on the Art and Craft of Foley  9. The sounds of televised sports  10. Collaborative and Integrated Feminist Approaches to Sound Design  11. The Soundtrack As An Acoustic Environment: Some Insights From Soundscape Research  12. Soundwalking: Three Acts of Attunement, Motion and Breath  13. Sound branding and brand sounds ? Traits, types and origins  14. Emotional Intent in Sound Design  15. Psychoacoustics in Sound Design  16. Designing Sonic Interactions in Intelligent Reality with Egocentric Audio Technologies  17. Hidden Tracks ? A Spatial Composition to Go  18. The breakthrough of consultancy in music production: A political economy of sound design in the ?creative economy  19. Everyday Sound through the Ears of the Professional Sound Designer  20. We Have Always Been Modular: Modularity as Production Paradigm for Music in Platform Society  21. Sonification and Sustainability  22. Cinematic Crosstalk and Psychotechnological Spaces: Understanding the soundtrack?s materiality, multimodality and embodiment through conceptual blending