Outside the Black Box: Sound Design in Non-theatre Contexts
Darren Copeland · Canadian Theatre Review · 2007
Sound Design provides the opportunity to reshape people’s perception of reality by altering the sonic environment of a particular place or situation. The most conventional example today is the sound design of a film or theatre production. Sound, broadly speaking, is used in these contexts to underscore the emotional temperature of any given moment as well as to provide sign posts to key aspects of the narrative or other structural elements. The sound design may draw attention to the emergence of important characters or events or it may designate time and place.