Supercut: The Sounds of STAR WARS

Ben Burtt is about as close to a rock star as a sound designer can get. He's celebrated by cinephiles everywhere because of his work on the Star Wars franchise, and even outside of those films, he's the voice of Wall*E and did the sound design for Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, among many others. But he'll always best be known for the iconic sounds of a galaxy far, far away, and rightly so: those sounds have become instantly recognizable, from Darth Vader's breathing to a lightsaber powering on and a TIE fighter speeding through space.

A new video from editor Rishi Kaneria (via The Playlist) celebrates some of Burtt's most famous work, and it's worth checking out if for no other reason than to think about the work Burtt did here and appreciate it all over again.

In 1977, with the release of "Star Wars: A New Hope," Ben Burtt introduced a new lexicon of sounds into our aural vocabulary.

This video is a celebration of those iconic sounds that have been rattling around my head since childhood and that have since become ingrained in our collective pop culture psyche.

It is also a celebration of Ben Burtt's genius.