Routledge Handbook of Sound Design

<p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design</i> 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.</p><p>Half a century since its formal emergence this book considers sound design in a plethora of practical contexts including music film soundscape and sonification as well as the emerging theoretical and analytical approaches being used in scholarship on the subject. <i>The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design</i> tracks how ideas and techniques have migrated from one field to the next as professionals expand the industry applications for their skills and knowledge and technologies produce new form factors for entertainment and information.</p><p>Collectively the chapters included in this volume illustrate the robustness and variety of contemporary sound design research and creativity making <i>The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design</i> essential reading for students teachers researchers and practitioners working on sound design in its many forms.</p>