brettworks

• An article about the history of policing women’s voices.

“There’s a long history of men telling women to avoid rhetorical excess and to use their indoor voices.”

• An article on the biological origins of rhythm.

“Beat keeping might be rooted in a really old, widely conserved mechanism, which is basically how brains communicate. What is more interesting is why some animals don’t do it.”

• An article on ECM records founder Manfred Eicher.

“There are little details that make sometimes a huge difference…It’s not a question of technical things. That also is part of it, but it’s important for me as a producer how to talk to a musician while recording, what to articulate more or less in front of the microphones. I will be their first listener, and for me it’s important how someone is phrasing, how they are creating their sound, the colours, the suspension. You can guide the music to a certain degree, or you cannot guide it…but you have to pay close attention to the sound that comes out.”