Susan Rogers has lived many musical lives. As a faculty member at Berklee College of Music, she directs the Berklee Music Cognition and Cognition Laboratory, expanding her research in auditory memory, which she began during her doctoral studies with Daniel Levitin at McGill University. She also teaches analogue studio production, drawing on two decades of experience in recording studios. She is especially well known for her years working as Prince's staff engineer (1983–87), a period in which she not only encountered Prince's own unique uses of tape, but also created his now-infamous tape vault. In many ways, the immediate impetus for this interview was Prince's untimely passing on 21 April 2016. In previous interviews, Rogers had already emerged as a lucid commentator on Prince's work first-hand, but that context adds a certain emotional heft to this interview, conducted one month after the pop music star's death.

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磁带、王子和工作室：Susan Rogers 访谈，2016 年 5 月 23 日，马萨诸塞州剑桥

苏珊·罗杰斯 (Susan Rogers) 过着许多音乐生涯。作为伯克利音乐学院的一名教员，她领导着伯克利音乐认知和认知实验室，扩大了她在听觉记忆方面的研究，这是她在麦吉尔大学与 Daniel Levitin 博士学习期间开始的。她还教授模拟工作室制作，借鉴了在录音室二十年的经验。她以多年来担任普林斯的参谋工程师（1983-87 年）而闻名，在此期间，她不仅遇到了普林斯自己对磁带的独特用途，而且还创建了他现在臭名昭著的磁带库。在许多方面，这次采访的直接推动力是普林斯于 2016 年 4 月 21 日英年早逝。在之前的采访中，罗杰斯已经成为对普林斯作品的第一手清晰评论员，