1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design

Edited By Michael Filimowicz Copyright 2025
372 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

372 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

372 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design offers a comprehensive overview of the diverse contexts of creativity and research that characterize contemporary sound design practice. Readers will find expansive coverage of sound design in relation to games, VR, globalization, performance, soundscape and feminism, amongst other fields. Half a century since its formal emergence, this book considers... Read more

Chapter 1: "Listener perspective in games and virtual reality" by Isak de Villiers Bosman, Kristine Jørgensen, Oğuz ’Oz’ Buruk, and Juho Hamari 

Chapter 2: “Sciences of sound design: research in sound design and its interactions with the design discipline” by Nicolas Misdariis

Chapter 3: "The globalization of sound design" by Tom A. Garner

Chapter 4: “Enacting the environment through sound: Reflections on the use of cognitive metaphors as a design framework in sound interaction design” by Mads Walther-Hansen

Chapter 5: “Cultivating sounds: Relational acoustics within the Buchla-Serge paradigm” by Todd Barton and Adam Hulbert

Chapter 6: “Acid music and sound design: An examination of the sound design techniques used in a selection of acid music tracks” by Dylan Davis

Chapter 7: "Managing complexity in multi-device environments" by Oliver Bown, Frederic Robinson, Kurt Mikolajczyk, and Sam Ferguson

Chapter 8: "Performative sound design: A cultural perspective on the art and craft of Foley" by Vanessa Theme Ament

Chapter 9: “The sounds of televised sports” by Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær

Chapter 10: “Collaborative and integrated feminist approaches to sound design” by prOphecy sun and Monique Motut-Firth

Chapter 11: “The soundtrack as an acoustic environment: Some insights from soundscape research” by Ian Thompson

Chapter 12: "Soundwalking: Three acts of attunement, motion and breath" by prOphecy sun, Reese Muntean and Freya Zinovieff

Chapter 13: “Sound branding and brand sounds: Traits, types and origins” by Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær

Chapter 14: "Emotional intent in sound design" by Neil Hillman

Chapter 15: “Psychoacoustics in sound design” by Maximilian Kock

Chapter 16: "Designing sonic interactions in intelligent reality with egocentric audio technologies" by Alessandro Giuseppe Privitera and Michele Geronazzo

Chapter 17: "Hidden Tracks: A spatial composition to go" by Stefan Troschka

Chapter 18: “The breakthrough of consultancy in music production: A political economy of sound design in the ‘creative economy’” by Christophe Magis

Chapter 19: "Everyday sound through the ears of the professional sound Designer" by Tom A. Garner

Chapter 20: “We have always been modular: Modularity as production paradigm for music in platform society” by Anders Reuter

Chapter 21: "Sonification and sustainability" by Sandra Pauletto

Chapter 22: “Cinematic crosstalk and psychotechnological spaces: Understanding the soundtrack’s materiality, multimodality and embodiment through conceptual blending” by Adam Melvin and Brian Bridges 

Biography

Michael Filimowicz is an award-winning AI artist and University Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University. He has a background in computer mediated communications, audiovisual production, new media art and creative writing. His Pixelphonics research develops new multimodal display technologies and forms, exploring novel form factors across different application contexts including gaming, immersive exhibitions and simulations.