There is a fairly widespread notion that the great voices of popular music are, at their core, technological creations. To listen to certain analyses, the recording studio almost seems like a massive factory of illusions. Yet the more I looked into how Bruce Swedien recorded Michael Jackson, the more the opposite impression took hold of me: everything seems to have been designed, not to fabricate a voice, but to avoid distorting it

A tribute to Bruce Swedien, Michael Jackson's emblematic sound engineer by Isabelle Petitjean, looking back on a friendship woven of respect