Oscar-nominated 'Rise of Skywalker' sound editors David Acord and Matthew Wood share the stories behind Babu Frik and the TIE fighters.

The Elephant Listening Project has spent more than three decades researching how elephants use low-frequency rumbling sounds to communicate with one another. More recently, those scientists began to ...

Apparently, the Imperial spaceship’s sound was created by blending distorted elephant recordings and the sound of cars splashing through puddles of water.

Movies go to interesting lengths to find the perfect sound effects, and it seems that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was no exception. In fact, it turns out that elephant screams were used to ...

Creating the sounds of Star Wars involves a lot of imagination and experimentation. For example, Acord explains that Burtt’s TIE fighter audio incorporates an elephant scream and a race car on ...

Deep in the rainforest in a northern corner of the Republic of Congo, some of the most sophisticated monitoring of animal sounds on earth is taking place. Acoustic sensors are collecting large amounts ...