Mindy Peterson is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM), and music advocate who has been a music educator since 1991. She is also the Arts Advocacy Chair of the Minnesota Music Teachers Association (MMTA) and a member of Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). In her podcast Enhance Life with Music, she explores the holistic impact of music in our everyday lives, examining its influence through the lenses of science and health, sports and entertainment, business, and education.

In this episode, her guest is Dr. Nolan Gasser – architect of Pandora’s Music Genome Project and music consultant for Google DeepMind. Mindy and Nolan talk about musical taste, why we like the music we like and the science, psychology, and sociology behind it.