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Post by dukoid »

brundolf wrote: post #10

A couple of my go-tos are Solar Fields and Infected Mushroom. Both are electronic; former is calm/ambient focus, latter is energetic/driving focus. Both have huuuge discographies that you can just put on shuffle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ldYxgJQG_E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQmvPQ0MmiY Solar Fields actually did the Mirror's Edge game soundtracks too, if you've played those. Really nice mix of ambient, al…

Also: Dreamstate Logic, Stellardrone, AES Dana, H.U.V.A Network, Miktek, Astopilot.

Recently I frequently just play this Space Ambient playlist: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuqZTQ_5gsppMEJWlJo...

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silisili wrote: post #54

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…

You think linguistically as most people do. Visual thinkers have the linguistic part of their brain available for processing music while they are thinking during programming. The benefits you experienced compared to us visual thinkers is that generally your type of people had it easier in school with regard to learning things off by rote memorization. The way mathematics is thought through word problems to school children suits your linguistic brain.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by tastysandwich »

EUV071STR48 wrote: post #78
tastysandwich wrote: post #35

I just quickly scrolled through my collection and here are some random, but fantastic instrumental albums I've used while "in the zone": - Miles Davis: In a Silent Way - Brian Eno: Ambient 4: On Land - Godspeed You! Black Emperor: F♯ A♯ ∞ (one of my favourite albums. listen with your best headphones. HD650s are good) - Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Volume II - Mozart: Requiem (my first proper introduction to cla…

Thanks! You have a really interesting taste in music I think. I just skimmed through every album. I saved the album from: Tim Hecker, Sunn 0))), Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and Brian Eno With Mozart and Bill Evans I am familiar. The Godspeed You! album I found not as straigt forward and distinct as I like my music. But don't take this as proper critique. Even though I hear lots of music, I have no 'intellectual' bas…

Yep, the band is definitely called Sleep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_(band)

As other have pointed out, there's also a near-identical release called Dopesmoker, but it's all one long track so a bit less convenient.

They also have a 2018 release called The Sciences which is pretty damn good too.

Some other albums:

  - Antônio Carlos Jobim - Wave (bossa nova is one of the most underrated genres I reckon)
  - Jon Hopkins - Singularity (ambient electronic)
  - Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (doom metal. similar to Sleep)
  - Sigur Rós - Ágætis_byrjun (there are vocals but they're Icelandic)
  - Chopin - The Complete Nocturnes (I've got a double-album of Roger Woodward playing them)
  - J Dilla - Donuts (instrumental hip hop)
I've tried to cover as many genres as possible to pique people's interest in branching out (you'd be surprised by what you enjoy when you give it a chance). Happy to give even more recommendations - I'm a music nut haha.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by gastlygem »

silisili wrote: post #54

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…

Have you tried listening to songs in another language? I can't listen to English and Chinese songs, but Spanish songs mostly just fly over my head.

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Post by silisili »

gastlygem wrote: post #254
silisili wrote: post #54

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…

Have you tried listening to songs in another language? I can't listen to English and Chinese songs, but Spanish songs mostly just fly over my head.

Correct. Songs in languages I don't speak do not have this effect, so I figure it's the brain processing every English word it understands front and center.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by syradar »

hbn wrote: post #216
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #93

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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…

I was talking to a (non-programmer) coworker who has ADHD recently, and she was saying that in order to concentrate she has to have music playing. I asked if that included while doing something that actually requires thinking and focusing like writing an essay and she confirmed that to be the case. She said she'll be singing along to rap music while writing. I thought that was wild cause I'm so the opposite. Music I…

Not sure if I have ADHD, but I have a hard time focusing without blocking all external sounds. I can’t listen to slow music while coding/thinking, I need the music to match my brain speed, so I listen to 135+ bpm stuff. Psytrance and Hardstyle are my go to music genres. I recently made a playlist long enough to get me through a working day https://open.spotify.com/playlist/02mn7gCDxdJeiRwgiEX3EM?si=...
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