German researcher Wilhelm Wundt in 1900 coined the term Lautbilder (“sound pictures”) for such words and phrases. A more science-sounding term is ideophones.

The stated goal of the new combination book and compact disc "Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980" (144 pages with CD; $40; Dust to Digital) is impressively brash: "It ...

Foley effects . Before my Sony Pictures Studio tour, I thought many of the sounds you hear in modern movies were sourced from a library of digital audio samples.

Before long, the operations officer on a U.S. Navy ship may be able to tune in a device that can reproduce a three-dimensional image of an enemy submarine scores of fathoms below the surface.

Sony Pictures Post Production Services has announced that the final phase of a multi-year effort to expand and modernize its motion picture and television sound facilities has been completed. As part ...

Charles Wakefield Cadman considered, George Gershwin dickered, Irving Berlin contracted last week to write musical themes for the new sound-pictures, the audible cinema. The field offers each ...