Walter Murch on Sound

Walter Murch discusses sound in two different ways: "Womb Tone" and how people perceive sound differently, and clear density in sound mixing. When we are born, our hearing sense is the first to be activated. It allows us to hear the world around us and experience different sounds. When this principle is applied to filmmaking, it can become difficult to create a soundtrack or mix that everyone can relate to since we only know what something sounds like if we have heard it in person. The sounds of various objects can be recreated for us on screen for people to get a basic understanding of, but will not know to the largest extent of what that object truly sounds like. Sound mixing is a delicate process where a simple visual scene may be composed of various complicated soundtracks and mixed to create a genuine environment on screen. By careful sound editing, a film can convey any message they would like by combining visual elements and sounds.