Legendary sound designer Ben Burtt, the man behind R2-D2’s beeps, the lightsaber swoosh and Wall-E’s electronic warble, will be honored at this year’s Locarno Film Festival with the Vision Award ...

Benny Safdie on how the legendary sound editor and re-recording mixer of "Uncut Gems" helped create the film's relentlessly propulsive energy. In the 1970s Robert Altman and his sound guru Jim Webb ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Iconic Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer, whose career spanned eight decades, has passed away at the age of 91. Variety reported Friday that the Canadian actor died at his ...

Nectar's in Burlington, Vermont will host a celebration of life for legendary sound engineer Sergei Ushakov. The event, "Celebrating Sergei: An Analog Outpouring", will take place on Saturday, ...

You have a sound argument if you want to build a case that an Oklahoman has been in as many big films as just about anybody. Here’s a sampling: “A Star is Born ...

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The headphone that proves legendary sound never goes out of style. Audeze supplied us with a review unit of the Audeze LCD-2 Classic, but didn’t have a say in our opinion, nor did they see this review ...

That anvil drop in Metallica’s 1985 heavy metal hit “For Whom The Bell Tolls” might be the most legendary part of the whole song. At the beginning of the track, the sound of a “bell” tolling ushers in ...

Conveying Definitive Technology's minimalist design philosophy, the BP9000 series is wrapped in premium materials such as brushed natural aluminum top plates that disguise the height module connector ...

Linux developers continue to surprise with their dogged support for retro hardware. A case in point is provided by Takashi Iwai’s recent pull request (h/t Phoron) to implement Creative Sound Blaster ...