Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling

4Sound Design

 

 

 

Our visual perception is limited to what is before our gaze, whereas hearing is ‘omnidirectional’ and thus fundamental to achieving a sense of presence (Collins et al, 2014 p. 215). Many years ago, I went on a scuba diving course in a flooded quarry somewhere in the UK Midlands. It was an unfortunate experience as I could not equalise the pressure and ended up with a splitting headache, an ear infection and eventually lost all hearing in my right ear. The result of this is that I cannot localise sound sources, everything happens to the left of me. The brain calculates the direction of a sound by the minuscule time difference it takes to reach one ear, then the other. In my case, my left ear registers everything both louder ...