You are in charge of sound for a movie about astronauts. Your job is to make a rocket launch - an event viewers have seen on screen hundreds of times - sound as fresh and spine-tinglingly scary as it did for those seeing it in person in 1969.

For Singaporean sound editor Ai-Ling Lee's team working on First Man (2018), the biopic of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the sonic oomph came from a source that had nothing to do with aerospace engineering.