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Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise

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Post by awolf »

fumar wrote: post #80
duncanmcdowell wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any recommendations on specific music that helps you (artist/album)? I find that Radiohead/In Rainbows is good for me

It depends on my mood. I find productive music to almost always lack vocals. I will list some artists and their respective albums, of the top of my head. (subgenres) Many of these artists have great discographies. Electronic 1. Glenn Underground - Atmosfear (house) 2. Aphex Twin - Ambient Works 85-92 3. Moby - 18 4. Space Dimension Controller - The Pathway To Tiraquon6 (soul-house) 5. Boards of Canada - Music has the…

Thanks for this list, I went through everything you listed and found a few new albums which fit my coding music tastes.

Along the the same lines as fumar's suggestions, I recommend:

1. Music from Braid (yes, the video game)

2. Black Swan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

3. The Social Network Soundtrack

Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise

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Post by acchow »

fumar wrote: post #80
duncanmcdowell wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any recommendations on specific music that helps you (artist/album)? I find that Radiohead/In Rainbows is good for me

It depends on my mood. I find productive music to almost always lack vocals. I will list some artists and their respective albums, of the top of my head. (subgenres) Many of these artists have great discographies. Electronic 1. Glenn Underground - Atmosfear (house) 2. Aphex Twin - Ambient Works 85-92 3. Moby - 18 4. Space Dimension Controller - The Pathway To Tiraquon6 (soul-house) 5. Boards of Canada - Music has the…

> I find productive music to almost always lack vocals.

This agrees with generally accepted psychological models. The mind is totally single-threaded in language processing/parsing (compared to incredible parallelism in spatial processing).

Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise

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Post by Myrmornis »

Silly idea, backed by "research" from the world of business-studies pseudo-academia. Do you trust the results of a paper that starts with the sentence "Creativity is ubiquitous in the realm of consumption"?

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/665048?uid=3739560&#38...

Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise

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Post by anigbrowl »

antihero wrote: post #61

Does anyone else's brain get distracted trying to pick out conversation from the ambience? Perhaps it's an ADHD thing.

Yeah, I prefer not hear this kind of thing. I'm not that impressed with the linked paper, which is from a consumer research journal and aims to identify environments that are likely to lead to higher purchasing levels.

Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise

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Post by fumar »

ajryan wrote: post #110
fumar wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends on my mood. I find productive music to almost always lack vocals. I will list some artists and their respective albums, of the top of my head. (subgenres) Many of these artists have great discographies. Electronic 1. Glenn Underground - Atmosfear (house) 2. Aphex Twin - Ambient Works 85-92 3. Moby - 18 4. Space Dimension Controller - The Pathway To Tiraquon6 (soul-house) 5. Boards of Canada - Music has the…

I created a Spotify playlist with all of these albums (except Boards of Canada and Nico Muhly, not available): http://open.spotify.com/user/ryan.aidan/playlist/5ot3B9EqCZF...

Thanks! I will use it myself. Spotify is lacking some great music, that includes BoC. But, in general, I find myself using it more than I thought.

Shameless plug. I released an EP recently. I will be honest only two tracks are, what I consider, finished work. Track 2 and 5. But, still learning... fantasmafigueroa.bandcamp.com

Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise

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Post by lprubin »

duncanmcdowell wrote: post #54
lukev wrote: post #13

Very interesting, but I find I get much the same effect with the right types of music (which are also more aesthetically pleasing, to me). Also, recorded environmental sounds always have a certain degree of annoyance for me. There's nothing on earth I love more than the sound of rain or a crackling fire, but recorded versions just don't cut it (for me). This seems to fall into the same category.

Any recommendations on specific music that helps you (artist/album)? I find that Radiohead/In Rainbows is good for me

I'm surprised this hasn't been listed yet since it's usually a HN fav: http://musicforprogramming.net/ It's my go to at work whenever things get too noisy.

Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise

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Post by cloverich »

duncanmcdowell wrote: post #54
lukev wrote: post #13

Very interesting, but I find I get much the same effect with the right types of music (which are also more aesthetically pleasing, to me). Also, recorded environmental sounds always have a certain degree of annoyance for me. There's nothing on earth I love more than the sound of rain or a crackling fire, but recorded versions just don't cut it (for me). This seems to fall into the same category.

Any recommendations on specific music that helps you (artist/album)? I find that Radiohead/In Rainbows is good for me

I've been collecting albums in a playlist, sharing because I don't see any of them here: http://open.spotify.com/user/1216782004/playlist/7Me4IwfD6FV...

I've been adding much more quickly than curating, so probably lots of stuff that's not a good fit; at any rate, a few of my favorites so far:

1. Apparat - The Devil's Walk 2. Washed Out - Within and Without 3. Little People - Mickey Mouse Operation 4. Phutureprimitive - Kinetik

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