Aphex Twin mastermind Richard D. James is a sneaky sampler, known to transform unique sound bites—including snippets from Robocop, a Tampax ad, and a 1980s porn film—into beats and bleeps that are ...

I've been playing video games since roughly around the time I developed the cognitive function to do so. Many musicians draw inspiration from video games, including Grammy winner Jacob Collier, known ...

They make my brain tingle, whether they mean to or not ...

Remastering the Super Mario World soundtrack in this way means diving deep into the world of compressed video game audio samples. These were most common in the late cartridge era; they were nestled ...

Video game music has come a long way, baby. Once an afterthought in terms of game design and overall pop-culture consciousness, video game music is now a legitimate industry of its own. Today, ...

The 2026 Grammy Awards ceremony took place on the evening of 1 February in Los Angeles, and a significant share of the ...

Sound design in video games is like the magic ingredient that makes the game’s world come alive. It’s not just about the music or the sound effects you hear when something happens in the game. It’s ...

That sound is from the new horror video game The Callisto Protocol. It comes from the director of an acclaimed sci-fi horror game called Dead Space. NPR's Bryant Denton reports on how the sounds of ...