Noise, modal jazz. Anything with a simple pattern is distracting.
Music to Let you Concentrate
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use all songs available on Spotify by In Flames. It's mostly melodic and rhythmic, usually upbeat, and the vocals and the higher spectrum percussion drown out ambient discussions without being very thought-provoking in themselves.
Same here! Dark tranquility and Omnium Gatherum works great for me as well!
Listening to New World Shadows right now
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#73Be 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 eventually work. And then I will stop listening to music and several minutes later notice that the function was entirely unnecessary, because I can make an architectural or data structure change instead and avoid writing the function altogether. This is something I am unable to do while listening to music.
Once I noticed this, I started being careful: I'd listen to music while configuring routers, but not when planning and designing the changes. You get the idea.
So, before you start listening to music while working, I'd advise you to check if your brain works the same way (the effect might not be exactly the same for everyone).
These days I mostly use natural sounds (the Naturespace app for iOS is great) and good headphones to mute background noise.
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#74Yo-Yo Ma - Bach, Cello Suites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHzfD6XLK7Q
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you recommend a Top 5 ambient albums for working? EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions!
Carbon Based Lifeforms and H.U.V.A. Network are fantastic for focus: http://www.last.fm/music/Carbon+Based+Lifeforms http://www.last.fm/music/H.U.V.A.+Network Other artists on Ultimae are also worth a try.
That is absolutely amazing. I am so in love with Carbon Based Lfieforms right now.
I'm terrible at music genres myself, but I am a huge fan of Bonobo's music. It's classified as trip-hop - no idea if that falls under this category. Bonobo - Black Sands http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTjF2_-bneM the entire album is amazing
He just released a new album not long ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Z4ibZFA6c&list=PLXEYOK9pTAB...
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#76In spotify, the "Exam Study Classical Music…" playlist is good to know: http://open.spotify.com/user/127564522/playlist/0CwzkFXVbEK6...
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#77Coffitivity works well for me, it's not music, it's ambient noise http://www.coffitivity.com/
+1 for coffitivity, I never imagined that a noise like this will help me focus until I started using it a few months back
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#78Doesn't work for me, i can't concentrate with this music..
I'm not sure if this will even work for a broader range or people because music is so much subjective..
For me it totally depends on the mood what music i can work best with, but usually it's some electronic house music where i can concentrate best.
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#79Be 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…
Same, by working with something I am familiar with and have almost mechanical memory, no problems listening any music. That includes working on coding, but I have done it before.
By creating "new/bespoke" functionality, then I have to switch off music.
To read complex document and make my own judgement I need to switch off music.
And same problem applies with office work noise.
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#80Be 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…
Music engages your creative hemisphere.
Do you have a source for this?