Episode 472 - Susan Rogers

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Record producer, audio engineer and professor Dr. Susan Rogers' remarkable recording career included working as a staff engineer for Prince in his Purple Rain 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 This Is What It Sounds Like: What The Music You Love Says About You, digging into concepts including beat deafness, authenticity, musical visualization, Prince's insane charisma, turning down Lou Reed, music and identity, the outsider magic of The Shaggs and Snowball the dancing cockatoo.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to probably science.
0:13.0	I'm Matt Kirshin.
0:15.0	And I'm Jesse Case.
0:17.0	And we have a special guest today, so we're going to bring you an interview in a second.
0:22.7	This is just a little preamble that we're recording separately, so we don't have to bother her with our nonsense.
0:28.1	We, in fact, are doing this afterwards, but we're going to stick it on there beforehand.
0:31.4	It's going to be a little time travel.
0:32.9	Yeah.
0:33.6	I'm going to have to do some fancy audio engineering to put this up front.
0:37.7	And speaking of fancy audio engineering, Andy, who's our guest today?
0:42.1	Our guest today is an audio engineer turned neuroscientist who, among many other accomplishments,
0:48.9	was an engineer on Prince's Purple Rain.
0:51.0	She made Purple Rain, people.
0:53.0	She was Prince's personal recording engineer and also worked with a lot of other good people.
0:59.4	I mean, a lot of, Crosby Stills and Nash, David Byrne, I mean, just...
1:03.1	Toad the Wet Sprocket.
1:05.3	Bernickee Ladies, Giggy Ta.
1:06.9	Yeah.
1:07.7	Yeah.
1:08.6	And actually, you know, I got to go revisit Giggy Talks
1:11.0	I was listening to our guest on another podcast
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