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Re: Music to Let you Concentrate

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Post by saidajigumi »

kps wrote: post #153
jwr wrote: post #73

Be careful. Music engages your creative hemisphere. This doesn't matter much if what you're doing is a simple, repetitive task. But if you're trying to design or program, it might kill your ability to "think outside the box" and invent creative solutions. In my case, listening to music while programming has a very pronounced effect: I will spend 30 minutes crafting a function that will do something. The function will…

I prefer silence, but since the open-plan fad holds sway here, I've found rain to be the most effective substitute. The best rain track I've found so far is 57 at http://archive.org/details/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection

Thanks for posting this. I needed a reminder of the great stuff lurking in the Internet Archive's "stacks".

Re: Music to Let you Concentrate

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Post by kvcrawford »

I'm a big fan of electronic music and the craft of DJing, and my favorite type of music to listen to while coding is UK Bass and its various subgenres. For this, I get my fix from the online "pirate-style" radio station, http://sub.fm, which has live DJs and an IRC chatroom where you can chat with the DJ and other fans. It's really great.

Note that this type of music is different from more mainstream (and American) dubstep—it has a deeper, more ambient quality to it. Great coding music.

Recently, I've also discovered a similar radio station for ambient music: http://stillstream.com/

Re: Music to Let you Concentrate

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Post by justin66 »

kps wrote: post #153
jwr wrote: post #73

Be careful. Music engages your creative hemisphere. This doesn't matter much if what you're doing is a simple, repetitive task. But if you're trying to design or program, it might kill your ability to "think outside the box" and invent creative solutions. In my case, listening to music while programming has a very pronounced effect: I will spend 30 minutes crafting a function that will do something. The function will…

I prefer silence, but since the open-plan fad holds sway here, I've found rain to be the most effective substitute. The best rain track I've found so far is 57 at http://archive.org/details/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection

This is super cool. Thank you! I have to admit I don't get the joke about crickets...

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Post by karthikv »

kps wrote: post #153
jwr wrote: post #73

Be careful. Music engages your creative hemisphere. This doesn't matter much if what you're doing is a simple, repetitive task. But if you're trying to design or program, it might kill your ability to "think outside the box" and invent creative solutions. In my case, listening to music while programming has a very pronounced effect: I will spend 30 minutes crafting a function that will do something. The function will…

I prefer silence, but since the open-plan fad holds sway here, I've found rain to be the most effective substitute. The best rain track I've found so far is 57 at http://archive.org/details/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection

This is a fantastic collection. Thanks for sharing this!

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Post by b0rsuk »

angersock wrote: post #138
b0rsuk wrote: post #120

Once upon a time Red Alert (1), one of first RTS games, won Game Music of the Year award from multiple magazines. I was initially a bit puzzled by it: there's nothing in the music that immediately jumps at you as great. It's nice, it resembles Nine Inch Nails in some places, that's it. But then I noticed I can listen to it for extended lengths of time without problem. It's relatively subtle, and it grows on you. It d…

The SimCity4 soundtrack is really awesome for just hacking away at things. I think that the Red Alert soundtrack is one of the best "get shit done" albums I've had in my box for a while, even with the amazingly cheesy synths and 90s style. The Descent and System Shock 2 soundtracks were very much in this vein (SS1 was procedurally generated, so it's hit or miss). I think the big trick is that game music is meant to g…

Red Alert 1 amazingly cheesy ? Really ?

Frank Klepacki - "Mechanical Man" (C&C 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap6QaDBZJwM

C&C 1 tracks had vocals unit they figured out it conflicted with the announcer.

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Post by moultano »

kps wrote: post #153
jwr wrote: post #73

Be careful. Music engages your creative hemisphere. This doesn't matter much if what you're doing is a simple, repetitive task. But if you're trying to design or program, it might kill your ability to "think outside the box" and invent creative solutions. In my case, listening to music while programming has a very pronounced effect: I will spend 30 minutes crafting a function that will do something. The function will…

I prefer silence, but since the open-plan fad holds sway here, I've found rain to be the most effective substitute. The best rain track I've found so far is 57 at http://archive.org/details/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection

Check out gordon hempton: http://soundtracker.com/ He makes fantastic binaural nature recordings. The advantage of binaural recordings is that they have an amazing feeling of "space" so that you forget that you are wearing headphones and that you aren't sitting in a forest. I've made some of my own as well. https://soundcloud.com/moultano

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Post by makmanalp »

niels_olson wrote: post #145
shrikant wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I strongly agree with this. Even if it's only ambient music (mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872706 ), I still use it only for situations involving mundane things like documentation. Otherwise I greatly prefer silence. My SO though, is exactly the opposite. She just can't get any work done in silence, and needs relatively fast music with vocals. Although it does need to be music that she's alrea…

I absolutely can't handle lyrics. I think you're right. Those of us who remember using gopher protocol probably grew up listening to radio hits even if we bought the tape or CD, so it was known and in its own way monotonous. But served the purpose of drowning out my brothers or roommate. Now I don't own a TV and rarely listen to radio, and my tastes have dramasticly broadened, so I almost never listen to the same son…

More suggestions for you based on what I see in your playlist: Zero 7, Nujabes, Little People, Ludique. Followed you on spotify :)

Re: Music to Let you Concentrate

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Post by sliverstorm »

pepr wrote: post #2

"... two out of three of people like to listen to music while they work, study or read but it’s difficult to find and manage music that consistently works well for this purpose." Precisely! I like to listen to ambient music when working and constantly trying to find new music for this purpose is quite a hassle.

DI.fm has a pretty good ambient station

Re: Music to Let you Concentrate

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Post by coldtea »

jwr wrote: post #73

Be careful. Music engages your creative hemisphere. This doesn't matter much if what you're doing is a simple, repetitive task. But if you're trying to design or program, it might kill your ability to "think outside the box" and invent creative solutions. In my case, listening to music while programming has a very pronounced effect: I will spend 30 minutes crafting a function that will do something. The function will…

>Be careful. Music engages your creative hemisphere. This doesn't matter much if what you're doing is a simple, repetitive task. But if you're trying to design or program, it might kill your ability to "think outside the box" and invent creative solutions.

Studies might suggest so, but irl programmings have been creating very cool stuff with music blazing from the speakers.

From Notch to JZW.

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