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A wave of advanced horror audio toolkits is connecting the creative worlds of game development, live streaming, and cinematic sound design. From Yohan Shin’s unsettling sound redesign for A24’s ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Horror movies are a tennis match between the haunting absence of sound and ...

Capcom’s Resident Evil series has often masterfully created tension and scares from the sounds you hear while tiptoeing around ominous environments. While the zombies and monstrosities that walk ...