Somewhat similar, but when I first started programming when I was 14, I couldn't listen to music at the same time, it just felt like I couldn't process something "creative" while thinking systematically. Now, I can and I feel like the music occupies the right brain and the hacking/analyzing occupies the left side, basically stimulating both sides of my brain.

There are intense focus sessions though where I turn off the music and after that, I can't talk to people in the hallway and they think I'm being cold. Outside of exceptions like that, it feels mostly like context switching I suppose, like the systemizing side turns off and the creative/human side turns on, or at least, gains control of the gears, so to speak. The best way I can describe it.