Peak Time – Susan Rogers and the Venopian Solitude

In the second hour of day two from Barcelona, we welcome engineer, producer, collaborator and psychologist Susan Rogers. In her 30-plus-year career in the music industry, Rogers has engineered for Prince — she worked on albums such as _Sign 'o the Times_, _Around the World in a Day_ and _Purple Rain_; produced for David Byrne, Tricky and Barenaked Ladies; and has earned a PhD in psychology, specializing in psychoacoustics and music cognition. Currently in residence at Berklee College of Music, she is lecturing and leading research that focuses on auditory memory, the perception of musical signals, auditory development and how the brain interacts with music. To start our show off today, Malaysian songwriter the Venopian Solitude steps into the studio. This electronica experimentalist creates electro-pop out of a menagerie of synths, stringed instruments and found objects coupled with her powerful voice, singing in English and Malay.