From the wet squelch of an alien creature to the crisp tip-tapping of a dance scene, filmic aural experiences are created by foley artists. These audio masters use their imagination and technical know ...

As Hollywood is grappling with the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence, Foley artists remain a key and deeply human part of the moviemaking process. Foley artists craft the everyday sound ...

Illustration by Juliette Toma for the Times. For a piece about foley artists. On in a series of stories about how to make it in Hollywood. (Illustration by Juliette Toma for the Times) Back when ...

What does decapitation sound like? How about a demon birth? Foley artists explain just how difficult it is to engineer the sounds of horror. Photo: Gabor Kotschy / A24 People often ask Foley artist ...

If you’ve spent any time on Instagram, you’ve probably seen Professor Puth, singer Charlie Puth’s series that breaks down the basics of music. In episode 10, he explains how the human heart beats like ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Listen as Elisabeth Moss turns off the sink in this scene. [water running] [handle squeaks] [silence] Now listen to it with a completely different ...

The salvage yard at M. Maselli & Sons, in Petaluma, California, is made up of six acres of angle irons, block pulleys, doorplates, digging tools, motors, fencing, tubing, reels, spools, and rusted ...

Back when silent movies gave way to talkies, filmmakers found that the microphones on their sets captured little more than the actors’ dialogue. Without additional sound recording, their films would ...