What and exactly WHY is "Sound Design?"
As a sound creative who works on traditional and eclectic sound design projects in lots of ways, I'll sum up the term "sound design" like this: sound design is the creation of audio intended to drive and guide specific emotional or technical decision-making in the listener. Now there are lots of descriptions of what sound designers do. Some are purely technical. Sure, we can focus on defining by way of the techniques, tools, and lingo, but ultimately sound design's sole reaso