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Comprised of classical music scores from some of the best movies, it creates the perfect ambience for coding, which stays out of your way, yet soothes and calms you while enhancing your productivity. Can't get enough of this mix.
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Can you recommend a Top 5 ambient albums for working? EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions!
76:14 by Global Communication is an undisputed classic of the genre, however you might find it distracting because it's so good. And of course there's Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92, which should go without saying really. Again, you might not be able to work because it's such a good record. Also, it's not ambient in the sense of having no beats. If you've never heard it before you should probably just stop…
Also I'm a big fan of M83 Digital Shades Vol 1 for this purpose.
I somehow find techno and trans music to be quite distracting, this playlist however is an absolute godsend. " http://8tracks.com/tachedroof/the-only-study-mix-you-will-ev... Comprised of classical music scores from some of the best movies, it creates the perfect ambience for coding, which stays out of your way, yet soothes and calms you while enhancing your productivity. Can't get enough of this mix.
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"... 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.
Can you recommend a Top 5 ambient albums for working? EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions!
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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=PLXEY…
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…
Music engages your creative hemisphere. Do you have a source for this?
You could reason that if you engage the brain with something, then it cannot do another thing at the same time. So if you engage the areas responsible for creative thought processes, these areas will not be available for other tasks.
Obviously this might not be the same for everyone, I'm just cautioning people and urging everyone to do some testing.
Another example is that many people (including myself) can't dictate, for the same reasons. In my case, whenever I use dictation, I later go back and re-read what I wrote and it is always disappointing. It seems the areas of my brain that process speech are also needed to form thoughts into sentences and I just can't do both well.
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 talked about some other Coders about that. About 20 People. The strange thing was that 7 need music that pump them up like rock or something like that. 7 need relaxing/chillout music( iam in that group) and 6 of them need silence.
So i think there is no general way of what you can listen or not to.
"... 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.
Can you recommend a Top 5 ambient albums for working? EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions!
Billow Observatory - Billow Observatory
Nuojuva - Valot Kaukaa
Global Underground 24/7 - Danny Howells (Day Disc)
Willits + Sakamoto - Ancient Future
Nils Frahm - Felt
Bersarin Quartet - II
The World on Higher Downs - Land Patterns
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Can you recommend a Top 5 ambient albums for working? EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions!
76:14 by Global Communication is an undisputed classic of the genre, however you might find it distracting because it's so good. And of course there's Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92, which should go without saying really. Again, you might not be able to work because it's such a good record. Also, it's not ambient in the sense of having no beats. If you've never heard it before you should probably just stop…