What is Sound Design?
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Sam Gillespie (samuel.gillespie@sydney.edu.au)
Based on content developed by Liam Bray
(liam.bray@sydney.edu.au)
What will I learn in this video?
• To define sound design, to know it
when you ‘see’ it.
• To locate examples of sound
designs.
Sound is an integral part of every
performative and aesthetic experience with
an artifact.
Yet, in design disciplines, sound has been
a neglected medium, with designers rarely
aware of the extent to which sound can
change the overall user experience.
Sonic Interaction Design, edited by Karmen Franinovic, and Stefania Serafin, MIT Press, 2013.
ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usyd/detail.action?docID=3339598.
Sound induces emotional reactions in its perceiver and that focusing
only on the physical properties of auditory stimuli is not sufficient to
understand auditory-induced emotion.
One also needs to consider the associations made by the listener.
Therefore, we claim that auditory-induced emotion is an important
component in auditory perception to consider in product sound
quality and in sound design applications in general, where some
form of auditory information is conveyed to the listener.
Hence, sound designers need to be aware of the different
capacities of physical, psychoacoustical, and psychological
dimensions of auditory displays for causing an emotional
reaction in its perceiver, in order to succeed in designing
effective auditory displays.
Asutay, E., Västfjäll, D., Tajadura-Jimenez, A., Genell, A., Bergman, P., & Kleiner, M. (2012). Emoacoustics: A study of the psychoacoustical and psychological
dimensions of emotional sound design. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 60(1/2), 21-28.
Arousal (or intensity) is the level of
autonomic activation that an event creates,
and ranges from calm (or low) to excited (or
high). Valence, on the other hand, is the level
of pleasantness that an event generates
Bestelmeyer, P., Kotz, S. A., & Belin, P. (2017). Effects of emotional valence and arousal on
the voice perception network. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 12(8), 1351–
1358. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx059
Asutay, E., Västfjäll, D., Tajadura-Jimenez, A., Genell, A., Bergman, P.,
& Kleiner, M. (2012). Emoacoustics: A study of the psychoacoustical
and psychological dimensions of emotional sound design. Journal of
the Audio Engineering Society, 60(1/2), 21-28.
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