Hear Me Out: ‘Wicked’ is the death of cinema

Washed out and bland despite the fact it’s set in the same world as the gloriously Technicolor The Wizard of Oz, Wicked is a ...

The Beguiling, Misunderstood Theremin

Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom ...

Getting on ‘A House of Dynamite’ Early Let Paul N.J. Ottosson Create a Sound Mix He Hated — Until He Loved It

The sound designer, supervising sound editor, and re-recording mixer on Kathryn Bigelow's thriller on crafting the ...

Hackers Hijack Local ESPN & NPR Radio Stations’ Signals, Issue Emergency Alerts & Broadcast “Obscene” Material

Cowboys game was interrupted by "a loop of fake EAS tones, a racist Country song, and a promo to follow [the hackers] on ...

For 33 years, a 'true story' about the 'the resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity' buried in an MS-DOS help file has sustained an urban legend that a certain sound ...

"True story: 7 Hz is the resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity. This was determined empirically in Australia, where a new factory generating 7-Hz tones was located too close to a chicken ...