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

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At first the book seemed to be written from the perspective of a listener, but not long before changing to the author's perspective. I must say, I was curious to learn about my listener's profile, but all I got was the author's.

Musical anhedonia affects 5-10% of the population. Individuals with this condition generate a normal amount of dopamine activity in response to art, food, money, and other types of stimuli- just not to music." This statistic was startling to me as I cannot imagine a day without listening to music. Susan Rogers found her superpower in the music world not as a musician, but as a master listener. Rogers' book is a gift to music listeners of all kinds - because in listening, we hear not only the music, we hear the sonic signature of our own soul Dan Charnas, New York Times bestselling author of Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

Extraordinary insights about music, emotion, and the brain... An instant classic' Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized Mind The neuroscience is tangential, at best. There are very few scientific explanations on how the brain works when listening to music, and those mostly feel like phrases from a learning book thrown in here, to sound more pompous. But there is no scientific answer to that. Not to mention that the subtitle of the book is completely misleading: there is nothing to explain what says about any of us the music we love. There are numerous examples of what the author, and her co-author, and some of her students like, and why they like it, but that's pretty much all.

We each seek out different sorts of experiences and emotional rewards from our musical encounters. Some listeners favor songs that evoke sweet nostalgia, while others crave a groove that matches their inner rhythm. Some listeners prefer to let their imaginations wander freely when they enjoy their favorite records, while others visualize specific scenes evoked by a song's lyrics. Some listeners covet innovative sound design, while for others it's all about that bass."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 to became Prince’s chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits (including Barenaked Ladies' "One Week") as one of the most successful female record producers of all time.

This Is What It Sounds Likeis 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 to became Prince’s chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits (including Barenaked Ladies'"One Week") as one of the most successful female record producers of all time.Largely informative and rather interesting, This Is What It Sounds Like dishes out a good bit of science and research into why music — of all kinds — is so integral to the human experience. While there is a larger component and focus on the science behind why the brain and body responds the way it does to various components of music than what I anticipated (or wanted), I thought the method of teaching the reader about the fundamental correlations made the information surprisingly accessible. A legendary record-producer-turned-brain-scientist explains why you love the music you do in an antidote to the Spotify algorithm doldrums 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. Susan Rogers, one of the authors of This is What it Sounds Like, is the sound engineer and record producer behind some of Prince’s biggest hits. So how did she come up with the book’s title? I’m embarrassed to say how long it took me to get it. What I didn’t get was the reason behind the subtitle, ‘What the Music You Love Says About You’, because it doesn’t do a very good job of describing the book. I think a better one would have been this quote, “...understand why you fall in love with a record...by understanding your listener profile". The listener profile it refers to is each person's unique response to seven key elements of music, such as melody, lyrics, timbre, authenticity, and more, that shapes their musical taste.