“Sound of Metal” director Darius Marder says he and his Oscar-nominated sound team — Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortes Navarrete — wanted heightened naturalism to depict ...

Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...

Pierre Leroux is in a good mood when he answers his cellphone in the Housse de Racket tour van. The French musician is in the midst of a trip that will find him and his musical partner, Victor Le ...

From above, Puget Sound’s deep green waters may seem a largely silent place — a hushed world of swimming fish and burrowing clams interrupted only by lapping waves, singing whales and the occasional ...

housse de racket are the parisian duo pierre leroux and victor le masne. starting out as in-demand session musicians-for-hire with local bands air and phoenix the boys were simultaneously making their ...