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Hey.. this is made by datasette who is a great producer in his own right! https://datassette.bandcamp.com/ "Polyhedron Navigator" has quite the interesting energy and sound design to it.
Call me weird but I need hard techno for work or else I'll function for only 50%
Here's a transcript of what I can decipher from the robot voice:
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(WARNING: PRETENTIOUSNESS)
While concentrating on complex tasks or creative work, we often feed ourselves streams of musical information in an attempt to occupy the parts of our minds that would otherwise be left relatively idle.
Without this, under prolonged periods of concentration, those other active brain centers create a sense of imbalance. It can often create distracting interjections from powerfully oblique thoughts about food, memories, desires, and emotions.
Using music in this way is nothing new, but for the wrong choices we can often find ourselves fighting against thematic intent to such a degree as to almost denigrate the music itself. We train ourselves to tune out ??? what we've chosen to be background noise.
The goal of this series is to provide listening experiences that can be fully appreciated for their artistic intent despite sometimes having only partial attention paid to them. That is not to say that the music is not worthy of exclusive attention, but that it contains themes or textures of a certain type that the problem solving brain centers won't have trouble processing and fully appreciating while attempting to code, write, or draw.
In other words, the music itself should not task the listener with too much problem solving ???. The musical ideas developed will cover large thematic and emotional distances, but rarely in such a short space of time as to sound dramatic. The back-and-forth motion between contemplation of the next stage of your work and the subsequent actions to realize it will necessarily create peaks and troughs in brain activity.
This series attempts to provide a soundtrack that can be fully appreciated at the level of entire ???. More importantly, the episodes have been lovingly crafted by people who have invested huge chunks of their lives finding all this beautiful stuff ???.
I'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…
Checkout Ricky Ryan for some quality underground progressive electronic music at ~116bpm: https://soundcloud.com/rickyryan The mixes are about 1hr in length and his set programming is top-notch. He releases a mix about once a month. His 'Mixtapes' playlist is a bit more clubby, and 'Textures' a bit more relaxing. Bio from page: Sometimes we come across DJs combining talent with a livewire personality, and Ricky Ryan…
I'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…
I like Loreena McKennitt and can listen to her albums on loop. I also enjoy trance but less so over the years as the beat has become boring.
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Brian Eno's got some great ambient stuff (although Ambient 4 is not one of my favorites). Some I'd recommend: * Ambient 1: Music for Airports * Ambient 2: Plateaux of Mirror * The Pearl * Thursday Afternoon * Discreet Music If you like any of those, there's lots more to explore. I don't care for all Eno's ambient works, but I really enjoy some of it.
Music for airports is my favorite ambient Eno. I have this part of my brain that notices odd (to me) choices, and some of his ambient stuff has sounds/patterns that break me out of the zone, but music for airports works as intended. Love Eno, and I think this is a "me" problem, rather than an issue with his work. Unless I need a sense of urgency, random recordings of bird songs (especially mockingbirds) are my go-to…
I'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…
I can listen to music with lyrics when I'm writing code, but not when I'm reading. So coding calls for metal or hip-hop for me most of the time, but reading usually demands synthwave, darkwave, horrowave, retrowave, classical, etc. If I'm sitting at my electronics bench working on hardware stuff, I particularly like to do the "put on a movie that I've seen so many times that I won't get drawn into paying attention to it" thing. Lately I've been using Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Hackers, Sneakers, etc. for that.