Stephen Deutsch is Professor of Post-Production at Bournemouth University and Visiting Tutor in Screen Composition at the National Film & Television School. Larry Sider is Director of the School of Sound symposium and former Head of Post-Production at the National Film and Television School. Dominic Power is an independent writer and film historian.

• Editorial; Sound at the centre: An interview with Peter Strickland; Berberian Sound Studio, Dominic Power; The ‘clap’, Michel Chion; Audio meditation for the New World, Philippe Ciompi ; Spatial perception and diegesis in multi-channel surround cinema, Johan-Magnus Elvemo; ‘Don’t pump up the emotion’: The creation and authorship of a sound world in The Wire, Robert Walker; ‘Every drop of my blood sings our song. There can you hear it?’: Hapatic sound and embodied memory in the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Philippa Lovatt; ‘The Soundtrack’: The School of Sound Summer Workshop at the IFS International Filmschule Köln, Stephen Deutsch and Larry Sider.