This week's guest is engineer, mixer, producer, and professor Dr. Susan Rogers. Susan is a professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston where she is also the acting Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory. Prior to her academic career she worked for 22 years as an in demand engineer and producer with artists such as David Byrne, Barenaked Ladies, Rusted Root, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and also spent four years as Prince's personal staff engineer. We have a great conversation about how the brain reacts to music, analog vs digital, and why success should be defined by what you believe could be possible, not by what is obvious.
In this episode, we'll dig in on...
Working with Prince
Listening and how music triggers the brain
Modern uses for analog tape
The art and craft of mixing
US Army electronics manuals
Music Cognition and Psychoacoustics
Leaving the music industry to work in science
Teaching at Berklee College of Music
Taking your toys apart
Writing a book
How to find an audience

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Credits:
Guest: Dr. Susan Rogers
Host: Travis Ference
Editor: https://linktr.ee/djempirical (Stephen Boyd)
Theme Music: inter.ference