Sound Design

Caitlyn Trevor discusses how sonic branding shapes customer experience, with text reading Your Brand Has a Sound - Is it helping or hurting?

Sonic Branding: How Sound Shapes Customer Experience with Caitlyn Trevor

“When I do see really powerful sonic branding, it’s impressive. It stands out, you know? There was one I looked at, it was a luxury airline, or it was a luxury-like experience, I want to say. They sold, like, really specific vacations to remote parts of the world that were really luxury experiences and really […]

Podcast thumbnail for The Audio Branding Podcast featuring Caitlyn Trevor, with the text “How Sound Shapes Emotion” highlighting the neuroscience of sound and audio’s emotional impact.

The Neuroscience of Sound: How Audio Shapes Emotion with Caitlyn Trevor

“Our brain really prioritizes vocal signals. They’re super important to the brain because human communication is a really big priority for us as a species. It’s a deep signal in our brain, right? And so, we were seeing a stronger reaction to the screams than to the music, and that sort of makes sense. There […]

Kenneth Johnson and Jodi Krangle discussing how sound controls emotion in film sound design

Sound Design Process: A Conversation with Kenneth Johnson

“I think that sound drives the emotion of a scene, right? As much as dialogue, right? Sound and music, score in particular… I just think it helps to create emotion in a scene or augments the performances. Because you gotta have great performances, but great performance coupled with, you know, great sound design or a […]

Kenneth Johnson describing how he got his first sound design job on Melrose 90210 after three years of preparation

Sound Design Secrets: A Conversation with Kenneth Johnson

This episode’s guest is an award–winning supervising sound designer whose groundbreaking work has shaped the sound of some of television and film’s most iconic projects, including Netflix’s hit series Forever and Kevin Hart’s animated comedy Lil Kev. Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, he rose through the ranks of Hollywood post-production, breaking barriers […]

The Role of Simplicity in Sonic Branding: A Conversation with Connor Moore – Part 2

“I give them a lot of credit because they use that so frequently, and that’s why they have so much success. I mean, it is an iconic melody in and of itself, but it’s that repetition and that usage, you know, whereas I feel like a lot of sound logo projects that come in, we’ll […]

How Sound Design Revolutionizes Branding: A Conversation with Connor Moore – Part 1

Why Audio Branding and Sound Design Matter More Than Ever “Too much sound complicates things, it confuses things, and it causes annoyance and fatigue, too much brain power needed. Too much cognitive load, and it’s a known fact. So oftentimes companies will come to me and say, ‘Hey, we have, you know, sixty sounds we […]