but even he admits that it sounds very little like Lynyrd Skynyrd’s rock classic. On the West side of Chain Bridge Road, Ellen Sherman paused from her spading as Tuba Guy passed. Sherman ...

What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore ...

You don’t need to know the difference between a tuba and a euphonium to appreciate the holiday tunes performed at a Tuba Christmas concert. But you may be surprised by the sounds these lowest of ...

Fitting for a docudrama about sound’s impact, there’s a vivid rhythm to “The Tuba Thieves” crafted by O’Daniel and her co-editor Zack Khalil. They piece together the vast assortment of ...

O'Daniel, a visual artist who identifies as Deaf/Hard of Hearing, has a keen interest in sound as an integral element of human life, and “The Tuba Thieves” expands that query in many directions.