This Is What It Sounds Like

By Susan Rogers, Ogi Ogas,

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

Book description

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…

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1 author picked This Is What It Sounds Like as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It was one of the great strokes of good fortune in Prince’s career that one of his earliest engineers was a brilliant musicologist.

Of course, the reverse is true too, and Rogers’ extraordinary knowledge of music is brought to life (at least in part) by the time she spent alone in the studio with Prince, in the middle of the night, at Christmas, whenever he called.

From Matt's list on by Prince associates.

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