Published June 5, 2019 | Version v1
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"Skywalker Sound" Recording Studio as a Sound Design Developer

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  • 1. Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Ukraine

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The article examines the work of American studio “SKYWALKER SOUND” as a sound designer in cinematography. There is a sound environment modelling, sound style creation and sound effects design for multimedia piece. Sound design is the process of creating unusual sound effects of no analogies in nature. The scientific novelty of the research is that for the first time the main principles and criteria for a sound design term were implemented using “SKYWALKER SOUND” example. The research methodology consists of basic principles paradigm: objectivity, historicism, systemacity, multifactority, complexity; and to achieve the aim the methods of in scientific knowledge have been used: problem-chronological, concrete-historical, statistical, logical-analytical approaches. Conclusions. The term of “sound design” should be introduced into the scientific discourse of domestic musicology by devoting scientific researches to this phenomenon, holding relevant conferences. Today it is worth to pay more attention to the phenomenon of sound design within the music science and music education.

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