ABSTRACT

Lynch worked with several collaborators on his sound design, as well as working alone; there remains an overarching sonic style in Lynch's films, determined by how he uses specific and abstract sound effects and how each is produced and processed. One way that the sound effects function in his films is that an ordinary sound can become frightening in its specific context. With Lynch, sound and vision are often operating as dissonance. This chapter discusses the commonalities in Lynch's sounds for his films. It discusses not only the sound types that create Lynch's sonic style but also how sound is used, its volume, and how it is dubbed.