This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

by Ogi Ogas, Susan Rogers Narrated by Susan Rogers

Overview

A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles, rose to become Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then created other No. 1 hits,
including Barenaked Ladies' “One Week,” as one of the most successful female record producers of all time.
Now an award-winning professor of cognitive neuroscience, Susan Rogers leads readers to musical self-awareness. She explains that we each possess a unique “listener profile” based on our brain's natural response to seven key dimensions of any song. Are you someone who prefers lyrics or melody? Do you like music “above the neck” (intellectually stimulating), or
“below the neck” (instinctual and rhythmic)? Whether your taste is esoteric or mainstream, Rogers guides readers to recognize their musical personality, and offers language to describe one's own unique taste. Like most of us, Rogers is not a musician, but she shows that all of us can be musical-simply by being an active, passionate listener.
While exploring the science of music and the brain, Rogers also takes us behind the scenes of record-making, using her insider's ear to illuminate the music of Prince, Frank Sinatra, Kanye West, Lana Del Rey, and many others. She sharesrecords that changed her life, contrasts them with those that appeal to her coauthor and students, and
encourages you to think about the records that define your own identity.
Told in a lively and inclusive style, This Is What It Sounds Like will refresh your playlists, deepen your connection to your favorite artists, and change the way you listen to music.

Editorial Reviews

NOVEMBER 2022 - AudioFile

Susan Rogers narrates in an authentic, thoroughly charming voice that makes this fascinating audiobook a treat to hear. It’s the type of amateur performance that speaks to listeners more with its vulnerability and enthusiasm than its polish, but it’s beguiling nonetheless. This enlightening audiobook is an enticing mix of music neuroscience, the authors’ knowledge of music genres, and Susan Rogers’s insider experiences as a sound tech. (She was the audio engineer for Prince’s PURPLE RAIN.) The two professors explain the seven dimensions of music that people can attend to and illuminate these features in various recordings they reference. Helped by the youthful innocence in Rogers’s performance as much as the authors’ conversational writing, this accessible audiobook will ignite new freedom in how we interact with music and art more generally. T.W. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2022 - AudioFile

Susan Rogers narrates in an authentic, thoroughly charming voice that makes this fascinating audiobook a treat to hear. It’s the type of amateur performance that speaks to listeners more with its vulnerability and enthusiasm than its polish, but it’s beguiling nonetheless. This enlightening audiobook is an enticing mix of music neuroscience, the authors’ knowledge of music genres, and Susan Rogers’s insider experiences as a sound tech. (She was the audio engineer for Prince’s PURPLE RAIN.) The two professors explain the seven dimensions of music that people can attend to and illuminate these features in various recordings they reference. Helped by the youthful innocence in Rogers’s performance as much as the authors’ conversational writing, this accessible audiobook will ignite new freedom in how we interact with music and art more generally. T.W. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175460927
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	09/20/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	1,088,418

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