Listening to music is a uniquely private expertise. It could possibly evoke robust emotions and recollections. It could possibly unite us or be a supply of debate. In This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You, Susan Rogers (cognitive neuroscientist and Berklee Faculty of Music professor) and Ogi Ogas (mathematical neuroscientist and co-author of Journey of the Thoughts) clarify why we join with sure features of a document. As a producer for artists as distinct as Prince and Barenaked Girls, Rogers calls on a long time of experience concerning the musical preferences of herself and others. This real-world expertise is intertwined with each authors’ scientific explanations of how the thoughts processes music. It’s like two books in a single: tales of a few of our most beloved musicians, singers and songwriters, coupled with insights about how and why our brains decipher musical notes, melodies and lyrics particularly methods.
Rogers refers again and again to an exercise known as a “document pull,” a music-sharing expertise the place pals uncover issues about each other by listening to their favourite data collectively. “Good document pulls characteristic as a lot storytelling as music,” she writes. Every chapter includes a document pull suggestion to assist us perceive how we join with music. It’s a enjoyable, informative train that can undoubtedly open many readers’ minds and enhance their musical data.
In a tone that’s each logical and approachable, the 2 authors clarify that as a result of every mind is wired to expertise rewards from completely different sides of music, “it’s misguided to counsel that anybody’s style in music is superior to anybody else’s.” After studying This Is What It Sounds Like, lovers of all music genres won’t ever take heed to their favourite data the identical approach once more.
