/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10695558]

What music do you all listen to when you need to concentrate? Or no music at all?

[Anonymous No.10695567]

>>10695558
Structures from silence

[Anonymous No.10695574]

>>10695558
>>>/mu/

[Anonymous No.10695587]

>>10695558
I change the music when reading to match what’s happening in the book

[Anonymous No.10695589]

I storngly dislke music... its bascially retarded sort term pleasure and then LOTS OF EAR WORMS AND DUMB REPETITIVE SHIT
THE good stuff: debussy. OK? classical stuff. STUFF that really makes yu think, transports yo to another world. Basically most white people are retarded as "NIGGERS" and Muh beats muh beats and hum dumb peasant shit GET STUCK IN BRAIN which is lame-o ok? listen to debussy listen to mozart, switch on , get transported

DONT listen to music while reading you FUCKING pseud. emotional contamination. fucking ADHD subboid. soymanoid. FUCK YOU.

[Anonymous No.10695595]

>>10695589
yes.

[Anonymous No.10695629]

I used to listen to entry-level Jazz when I studied in undergrad. Stuff like Mingus, Davis and Coletrain. The music I really like is not conducive to focusing.

[Anonymous No.10695686]

>>10695558
Multi-tasking is actually cancer for your brain. The inability to do one thing at the time is one of the reasons why everybody has poor concentration these days.

So no music.

[Anonymous No.10695690]

>>10695589
>me no liek sounds

[Anonymous No.10695696]

>>10695686
>Having ambient music in background is multitasking

[Anonymous No.10695701]

>>10695558

[Anonymous No.10695714]

>>10695696
It is to your brain. I'm not here to argue with autismo's, just know that you're wrecking your brain.

[Anonymous No.10695957]

>>10695714
There is unironically nothing wrong with listeninge to ambient or minimal house while reading. It probably increases your retention, brainlette

[Anonymous No.10695979]

>>10695714
actually i read this thing that was like having audio on in the background engages part of your brain that would normally get distracted and try to check your email or whatever so u can concentrate more

personally i think it's a shit theory, i'm way more productive in silence, but i don't like to admit it cuz i'd rather listen to some music in the background while working, but whenever i have a coding sess where i get tons of shit done i'm like wow why was i so productive and it's like oh because that day i had no music

u think music isn't ruining ur life but it is

[Anonymous No.10695998]

Philip Glass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsg73PzKzDA

Star Trek TNG Ambience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKBvaOLDem0&t=19226s

Skyrim OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWtfo9kuRTU

Sam Harris and the Truthers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

But really, listening to nothing is the best route to concentration. The brain is bad at multitasking.

[Anonymous No.10696023]

>>10695558
Silence is what you need to concentrate and when not available a repetitive sound like white noise.

Ambient is a meme and so is classical music.

[Anonymous No.10696056]

>>10695998
yikes

[Anonymous No.10696077]

>>10696056
wat, u got a problem with my post?

[Anonymous No.10696090]

>>10696077
just.. i dunno anon... soundtracks and shit
the rick astley
but yu know
theres something comfy about your post and your reply
and im happy
this is gonna sound silly but i love you, goodnight

[Anonymous No.10696102]

>>10696090
I love you too

[Anonymous No.10696271]

If you're reading some dense-ass scientific texts, I recommend some wild and crazy jazz:
https://youtu.be/Hrr3dp7zRQY?t=10m49s

If I'm reading something like Kant or Quine, I usually listen to ambient music, such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZvRCflar7k

If I'm reading fiction or philosophy for pure pleasure (e.g. the Neoplatonists, Aquinas), then I usually have silence. Sometimes celtic and medieval music gets me in the mood, sometimes not. I disagree with those who say that listening to music while reading diminishes concentration; if anything, the music becomes a 'store' whereby I'm able to retain implicit connections (trains of thought, etc.) and things that you've just got to memorize. Even now, while listening to Ryo Fukui, I remember that the citric acid cycle (aerobic respiration) yields a total 30-32 molecules of ATP and other minutiae from cell biology — it's been years since I studied this shit.

A more effective argument, I think, would be that listening to music while reading diminishes the pleasure of both music and literature. I don't believe that it affects concentration negatively; people who say otherwise fail to realize that, in the information age, connecting disparate strands and multitasking is the name of the game. How well are you able to synthesize?

[Anonymous No.10696315]

For the most part it has to balance the mood with being background enough to eventually pass from notice. For this, I recommend:

G.P. da Palestrina
Heinrich Schutz
J.S. Bach (of course. and those 1 hr long lute works are the best)

[Anonymous No.10696503]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGLSXitxVpo

[Anonymous No.10696578]

>>10695567
Thank you

[Anonymous No.10696622]

Almost anything that doesn't have a strong tempo. Ambient, harsh noise, free jazz, etc. are all acceptable. Tempos, beats, and rhythms are acceptable if they're not too overpowering.

No OSTs or anything familiar in that way though because I'll think about the source material of the music too much.

I don't have a strong preference for having music or not so I do music and silence in about equal measures.

[Anonymous No.10696739]

Steve Reich's "Drumming"

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=drumming+steve+reich

Propulsive, cerebral, unobtrusive, repetitive

[Anonymous No.10696940]

>>10695701
this + post-rock and ambient

[Anonymous No.10697326]

Stars of the Lid
William Basinski