timbirkettJun 11, 20243 min readActors, accents and the lost art of dental fricativesI recently listened to a very distinguished director being interviewed about his work. He expressed a clear preference for working with...
timbirkettFeb 4, 20213 min readMasked Voice SyndromeAs an early adopter of the face mask during this pandemic, I’m fairly tolerant of the minor inconveniences that wearing them entails. ...
timbirkettJan 30, 20213 min readThe Uncanny ValleyEdward Dolnick’s brilliant book The Forger’s Spell is about the Dutch forger Han Van Meegeren. His “Vermeers” fooled a lot of “experts”...