Episode 472 - Susan Rogers

<p>Record producer, audio engineer and professor <a href= "https://www.thisiswhatitsoundslike.com/about" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Dr. Susan Rogers</a>' remarkable recording career included working as a staff engineer for Prince in his <em>Purple Rain</em> heyday, not to mention projects with David Byrne, Barenaked Ladies and Crosby, Stills & Nash. After two decades in the business, she shifted her focus to the science of music cognition, and she brings her extensive knowledge of all things audio to the new book <a href= "https://www.thisiswhatitsoundslike.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">This Is What It Sounds Like: What The Music You Love Says About You</a>, digging into concepts including beat deafness, authenticity, musical visualization, Prince's insane charisma, turning down Lou Reed, music and identity, <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">the outsider magic of The Shaggs</a> and <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMjr8MsB1qo" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Snowball the dancing cockatoo</a>.</p>