Sound can communicate the quality of an action just as powerfully as any visuals.

Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby were pioneers when it came to singing “to the microphone.” They adjusted their vocal dynamics in ways that would have been unheard of earlier. It might not seem that radical now, but crooning was a new kind of singing back then. It wouldn’t have worked without a microphone. Chet Baker even sang in a whisper, as did

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Our gradually degrading analog audio media may not sound “better” than digital, but they do sound different , and for some they can sound different in a way that's preferable to digital perfection. My grandmother has often said that she would sometimes rather listen to her old vinyl records, or even digitizations of them, than to a perfectly... See more