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Favourite working music?

#1
Hello. I have been wondering if anyone has any suggestions and/or what everyone's favourite "working music" is if any. Particularly among those of you who work from home / reportedly / alone / during your personal projects etc

Myself seem to have mixed results, with complete silence sometimes being the best when I do something that I am actually focused yet other times wanting something in the background to occupy the auditory channel so to speak (or to drawn other environmental noise)

That in turn often has countereffective results, with "too epic" making me feel like I do amazing work, despite not doing any or with "too chillaxing" music actually making me too relaxed in turn and finding myself drifting towards the abyss of random wikipedia article reading.

So I reckon, if 10 people here chip in, and all happen to have 1 particular style (track), that may end up fairly interesting.

Re: Favourite working music?

#8
On linux, at least:

play -q -c 2 -n synth brownnoise band -n 1600 1500 tremolo .1 30

That's nice for drowning out noises when I need to. In case you can't test it out, it sounds a lot like sitting by the beach with waves rolling in. Lyric-less (or nearly) music also works well for me, I just have a playlist on spotify.

Re: Favourite working music?

#9

I have to avoid things with lyrics.

Huh. That's actually fairly interesting! Myself I have noticed the following. I am someone who meddles around with both "artistic" stuff (3d modelling etc) and programming as a hobby/projects.

I have noticed that when I do the 3d stuff, I can usually tolerate music with lyrics, or for that matter even listening to documentaries, TED talks etc just fine. Everything slows down but progress is actually being made.

On the other hand when I do something programmy or for that matter even simple text based stuff such as "writing descriptions" I have noticed that I find music with lyrics utterly distracting.

Although the left/right brain thing is a bit of a myth, frankly it has been extremely clear to me that language neurons get to be dual-purpose components when it comes to logic stuff of a particular kind.

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