Veera, a popular Indian soap opera, is on, grabbing their attention with its dramatic segues, cliffhangers, tension-heightening sound accompaniments and swift closeups capturing the shocked, ecstatic and exaggerated expressions of the actors.
The bridge was heightened, the sound post and bass bar were thickened, and the body became flatter.
Petr Janata, a research assistant professor at Dartmouth who studies music and the brain, said the effect can be heightened when sound is linked to motion.
Understand that during high stress periods our five senses are heightened (sight, sound, taste, touch, & smell).
Dave Rolinson notes that, while "the adaptation inevitably misses Dickens's nuanced and often unsettling prose,... it achieves comparably skilful effects through visual language and sound, heightening theme and supernatural mood..
But Zittrer's is an expressionistic rather than a literalist use of sound, heightening the horror by putting viewers inside the disturbed head of the killer, and rendering already upsetting sequences (like an early-movie dog strangling) nearly unbearable. Sean Egan.
The impression is that of a news Teletype machine predating computers, and is heightened by the sound of typewriter keys being struck in rapid succession in the background.
But this is also a piece in which Koechlin consecrates his deep passion for the stars of the screen; it's a sequence of surreally heightened portraits in sound of Douglas Fairbanks, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo (a pagan choral for ondes martenot) and, in the final movement, Charlie Chaplin.
The sound heightened the tension in the small living room of the 1950s Mexico City house. .
The playing has phenomenal poise, however, with the warmth of the LSO sound immeasurably heightening Haitink's emphatic stress on the work's majesty.
That is, this type of event increases sensitivity to the surrounding sound environment, heightening perception of the environmental noise, as the sound event becomes the focus of attention.
