Browsing: Sound & Music

Audible Theater will present the “headphone horror,” written by Jamie Armitage and featuring sound design by Ben and Max Ringham, at the Minetta Lane Theatre.

AI has quietly worked its way into almost every corner of audio production, from noise removal and mastering assistants to voice cloning and fully generated music.

Brussels, Belgium (August 3, 2026)—Starting today, the new European Union AI Act introduces a slew of new regulations that affect anyone using AI to produce or post-produce voices or video for content that will be consumed in the EU.

Saramonic has announced its new SG MS1 stereo shotgun microphone. Using the M-S configuration, it can simultaneously capture both the subject and ambient sound.

Creative work has a habit of compressing time. A soundtrack cue that once had room for planning, recording, and revision now often has to come together on a much tighter production schedule. That pressure has made AI music tools more relevant to working creators because they shorten the distance between an idea and a usable…

Montreal, Canada (July 23, 2026)—Focal Naim America has released Mixed on Focal #8, a 100-minute playlist of 21 recording artists’ music mixed using Focal Professional monitors.

In the blockbuster space adventure Project Hail Mary (in theaters now), a sentient rock from an alien planet introduces itself to Ryan Gosling’s science teacher-turned astronaut with a succession of growls, gurgles, clucks, chirps, and chitters. The dog-sized chunk of material, which has no face, five arms and no name until Grace anoints him “Rocky,”…

Kavinsky, the French electronic musician whose oeuvre was heavily inspired by his love for movies, has died at the age of 50. A cause of death has yet to be determined, but French authorities have found nothing suspicious.

BOOM Library has announced the release of ROAD RAGE, a professional sound effects library for vehicle damage and crash sound design. They say that ROAD RAGE covers the entire spectrum of vehicle destruction, from studio-recorded component impacts to large-scale crane-drop sessions, and is organized as a toolkit for sound designers in film, television, and game…

Good News Catholic TV, a Catholic digital media ministry based in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, has upgraded its production facilities to strengthen its evangelization and media outreach across the country and beyond.