"Steve Reich was a very important part of my listening," Brian Eno tells the New York Times' Ezra Klein. "All of his work, I think, depends on making your brain perform and watch itself performing in a certain way. So I suddenly thought then, ‘Oh, the composer isn’t just Steve Reich. It’s Steve Reich and my brain that’s making this composition what it is.’ And that thought never left me, that you actually are engaging the technology of the listener’s brain to complete the piece. They’re not passive.” You can watch and hear their conversation here.

Composer Steve Reich, whose new album, Jacob's Ladder / Traveler's Prayer, and the 27-disc box set Collected Works were recently released on Nonesuch, stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. He chose recordings by Kronos Quartet, John Adams, and Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion, and from the Nonesuch Explorer Series in Bali and Ghana. You can watch it here.