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Music for Programming
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Re: Music for Programming
#182I sometimes refer to Every Noise at Once when I'm looking for the right music as background when I want to focus. https://everynoise.com/ For me the music has to hit a balance between being engaiging enough but not too abrasive, sometimes lyrics can completely derail my focus but I focus better when I have something to listen to to drown out the sounds of conversations and people around me when I'm trying to read. If…
oh yes! thank you. bookmarked instantly.
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#183I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…
>>>> Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc.
Is it better when she's not watching? This could just be the "boss effect".
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
A large proportion of House music has lyrics and/or speaking, so I'm not surprised.
I would say the opposite, most "good" house music, or house that is considered tasteful, doesn't have lyrics. It may have some voice samples, but nothing too distracting. There are obviously many exceptions to this rule, but you can generally consider most house music to be instrumental.
I've been a house head since the 90s, and I would definitely not describe most house music as instrumental. Classic house frequently had vocals, in both the Chicago and especially NYC/NJ (garage house) styles. Most subsequent subgenres of house followed suit, whether using vocal samples or singing.
Instrumentals are a bit more common in melodic house, progressive house, etc but even then there's still a lot of non-instrumental tracks.
I completely agree with the sibling comment that instrumentals are far more common in techno.
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#185Definitely not Frank Zappa: his brilliant lyrics are way too engaging not to pay them full attention, and they demand the same part of your brain you use for programming.
Except for "Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar", "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More", and "Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar". Also "Francesco Zappa"!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Up_%27n_Play_Yer_Guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKMk6fcKbwE
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#186I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…
Investigate the spotify playlist "pov: ur in an 80s film driving at night"
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#187I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…
Basically my ADHD means that if I like the music I am listening to I will stop focusing on what I am doing and instead focus intently on the music, if I hate the music I am listening to I will stop focusing on what I am doing to turn off the music and then be pissed off at whatever connotations are raised in my head regarding the music, finally if I find the music bland and boring I will do ok but sooner or later I w…
Have you tried cicada sounds, that sort of thing... I had to do something to drown out the office noise around me (when I was in an office... or when I will have to go back in, I assume). It's tantamount to the Sardaukar throat singing from the new Dune sound track or something, but you can find 4 hour tracks of it. I never thought I'd be the type to rock out to "nature sounds", but here I am, drowning out the industrialized beehive of my life with a more natural insect hive sound.
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#188My favourite is this one [0]. The comments are full of people raving about it.
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#189Worth adding that Mili's world.execute(me) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESx_hy1n7HA) is the quintessential programming song, for self-evident reasons.
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#190As usual, here's the reminder that Datashat's Businessfunk series is king of energetic work music: http://datassette.net/businessfunk/
(Datassette/Datashat is the author of ‘Music for programming’.)
Plus here's the fourth Businessfunk mix, for the Near Mint web radio: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/near-mint-8th-march-2016-...