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Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by waterlesscloud »

pdknsk wrote: post #37
aric wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It invokes a mood. It distills a spirit of night and cities that never sleep. Urgent events from a police scanner play upon a feeling of social connectedness. Combining that with ethereal music plays upon senses of tranquility, danger, peace, haunting, calms before storms, and life transpiring. Dramas like Blade Runner, The Killing, and True Detective, as a few examples, achieve many of their most beautiful moments t…

This is very strange to me. How can it not distract? Some guy beats up his wife, or worse, and knowing so helps you coding? I would have never guessed it. I understand the notion about a certain mood, as in Blade Runner, but that's carefully arranged fiction. This is real life. (The last sentence probably reads more dramatic than intended.)

Air Traffic Control feeds can be easier to let blur, since they lack any sense of drama. They do tend to be less busy late at night, though.

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by robertfw »

mkal_tsr wrote: post #3

[ SomaFM SF 10-33] http://somafm.com/sf1033/ Ambient music mixed with the sounds of San Francisco public safety radio traffic. [ SomaFM Mission Control ] http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/ A mix of ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.

Mission control is excellent background for playing Kerbal Space Program

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by jwallaceparker »

fumar wrote: post #42

This is really cool. Makes me feel productive. I have been working on ambient music that allows me to work and stay focused. Just released some of my first tunes here: http://www.vpena.com

Hey, great work. Listening to it now.

What toolset or DAW did you use to create these?

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by fumar »

jwallaceparker wrote: post #44
fumar wrote: post #42

This is really cool. Makes me feel productive. I have been working on ambient music that allows me to work and stay focused. Just released some of my first tunes here: http://www.vpena.com

Hey, great work. Listening to it now. What toolset or DAW did you use to create these?

This was all done with Ableton live 9 on Surface Pro 3. I did use some field recordings and a few micro samples from Bill Evan's album, Moonbeams.

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by RIMR »

This was really soothing until SFPD started talking about a nasty Truck/Motorcycle accident. They dropped the line "The rider is still down", and now I'm switching to ambient by itself.

Nice site though. This is actually pretty soothing as long as it's typical, nearly-undecipherable police chatter.

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by selectodude »

RIMR wrote: post #48

This was really soothing until SFPD started talking about a nasty Truck/Motorcycle accident. They dropped the line "The rider is still down", and now I'm switching to ambient by itself. Nice site though. This is actually pretty soothing as long as it's typical, nearly-undecipherable police chatter.

Yeah, listening to Chicago's at night can get pretty gnarly.

Re: You are listening to New York – police radio and ambient music

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Post by VLM »

pdknsk wrote: post #37
aric wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It invokes a mood. It distills a spirit of night and cities that never sleep. Urgent events from a police scanner play upon a feeling of social connectedness. Combining that with ethereal music plays upon senses of tranquility, danger, peace, haunting, calms before storms, and life transpiring. Dramas like Blade Runner, The Killing, and True Detective, as a few examples, achieve many of their most beautiful moments t…

This is very strange to me. How can it not distract? Some guy beats up his wife, or worse, and knowing so helps you coding? I would have never guessed it. I understand the notion about a certain mood, as in Blade Runner, but that's carefully arranged fiction. This is real life. (The last sentence probably reads more dramatic than intended.)

I think this confusion is a stereotypical introvert vs extrovert thing. The interrupting human voices and drama distract and exhaust some, while focusing and energizing others.

I can listen to music while doing grunt work, but I need silence to concentrate. There may be a language issue WRT "coding" where design and implementation needs silence, minor optimization and bug fixing is possible, maybe more enjoyable, with music.

There may be more factors beyond these two.

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