The Sound of Silence

Foley is the art of the unseen. Every footstep, every rustle, every creak of a door is performed, recorded, and layered into the final mix by artists whose names rarely appear above the title.

We visited a studio where a single cabbage stands in for a fistfight, and a tray of gravel becomes an entire army on the march.

The discipline is part performance, part engineering — and entirely devoted to the belief that what you hear is half of what you see.