[Coworking] Background Music
We've just opened a coworking space in Traverse City, MI City, MI called CoWharf http://cowharf.com. Can anyone recommend a good Spotify playlist for our music? What do you play? -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [Coworking] Background Music
hello Bradley the background music is kind of a recurring topic, the archives might give you some hints and interesting things to try yet, as many things in coworking it seems that what works nicely is to open the music choice process to your coworkers. there is different low and high tech ways to do that for instances you might want to check github Play project, or use some kind of public playlists using spotify, deezer etc ... remember also that even if some coworkers might want music some might not and would prefer to see headphones etc in use instead of a general music background but it depends on many factors (size of the space, number of the rooms etc ...) have fun ! TR On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Bradley Matson bcmat...@gmail.com wrote: We've just opened a coworking space in Traverse City, MI City, MI called CoWharf http://cowharf.com. Can anyone recommend a good Spotify playlist for our music? What do you play? -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Thomas Riboulet +33 (0) 698 926 057 -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [Coworking] Background Music
Good advice from Thomas (and the archives). For Spotify, I'm a big fan of sharemyplaylists.com for finding new playlists for all occasions! -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Jan 2, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Thomas ribou...@gmail.com wrote: hello Bradley the background music is kind of a recurring topic, the archives might give you some hints and interesting things to try yet, as many things in coworking it seems that what works nicely is to open the music choice process to your coworkers. there is different low and high tech ways to do that for instances you might want to check github Play project, or use some kind of public playlists using spotify, deezer etc ... remember also that even if some coworkers might want music some might not and would prefer to see headphones etc in use instead of a general music background but it depends on many factors (size of the space, number of the rooms etc ...) have fun ! TR On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Bradley Matson bcmat...@gmail.com wrote: We've just opened a coworking space in Traverse City, MI City, MI called CoWharf. Can anyone recommend a good Spotify playlist for our music? What do you play? -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Thomas Riboulet +33 (0) 698 926 057 -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[Coworking] Background Music in a Coworking Space
Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective on. We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or week. This is a very interesting research study done on noise levels. It suggests a specific level of noise actually encourages more collaboration and creativity: http://news.illinois.edu/news/12/0514NoiseCreativity_RaviMehta.html What are your thoughts on playing music in the background? Sincerely, Tyler Byrd | President Red Rokk Interactive, Inc C: (360) 920-2462 | O: (360) 747-7401 | F: (954) 867-1177 b...@redrokk.com | www.RedRokk.com *Video Introduction to Red Rokk: *http://youtu.be/5XRSUn__jow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/rRsepfh4iJQJ. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Background Music in a Coworking Space
When one of our playlists end, the silence is deafening. It's a mad scramble to turn the music back on. Even if people don't like the music on, a little ambient noise has a huge impact on people's willingness to converse. They don't feel like they are breaking the silence. BONUS POINTS: take member-submitted playlists or stations and rotate them. When people enjoy what's on, they often say so out loud and you can commend the member author and make sure they know each other :) -Alex -- /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM, RedRokk wrote: Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective on. We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or week. This is a very interesting research study done on noise levels. It suggests a specific level of noise actually encourages more collaboration and creativity: http://news.illinois.edu/news/12/0514NoiseCreativity_RaviMehta.html What are your thoughts on playing music in the background? Sincerely, Tyler Byrd | President Red Rokk Interactive, Inc C: (360) 920-2462 | O: (360) 747-7401 | F: (954) 867-1177 b...@redrokk.com | www.RedRokk.com Video Introduction to Red Rokk: http://youtu.be/5XRSUn__jow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/rRsepfh4iJQJ. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Background Music in a Coworking Space
I think it is a good thing, depending on what it is. We have a couple of members who play quite a bit of music over the big speakers from their own collections or from rdio, spotify, etc. When they are not here it seems pretty quiet. On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM, RedRokk b...@redrokk.com wrote: Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective on. We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or week. This is a very interesting research study done on noise levels. It suggests a specific level of noise actually encourages more collaboration and creativity: http://news.illinois.edu/news/12/0514NoiseCreativity_RaviMehta.html What are your thoughts on playing music in the background? Sincerely, Tyler Byrd | President Red Rokk Interactive, Inc C: (360) 920-2462 | O: (360) 747-7401 | F: (954) 867-1177 b...@redrokk.com | www.RedRokk.com *Video Introduction to Red Rokk: *http://youtu.be/5XRSUn__jow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/rRsepfh4iJQJ. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- twb member, Workantile http://workantile.com/ @twbrandt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Background Music in a Coworking Space
hi, same thing here at Tau (France, Toulouse) we started plugging a pair of speakers to one laptop some weeks ago and now the cable jump from one laptop to another depending on who's here what's been played, the mood etc ... I think (and have experienced) that background music do help to keep a better mood around and probably allows people to forget about people based noise that come with a filled space (people walking, whispering, phone ringing, doors opening etc ...) on a practical manner : I've been looking at github hubot and play (https://github.com/play/play/) for some time and plan to test such a setup (related article : http://zachholman.com/screencast/play/). Z. Holman article is also interesting on the human side of having a common, community managed, music stream going on. you could also use things like spotify and deezer to share, edit and play playlists I suppose, and from my university's years I remember tons of open source projects to handle web based jukeboxes anyone got tips about the hardware side to setup this ? small form factor pc, media friendly pcs ? TR On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Tom Brandt twbra...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is a good thing, depending on what it is. We have a couple of members who play quite a bit of music over the big speakers from their own collections or from rdio, spotify, etc. When they are not here it seems pretty quiet. On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM, RedRokk b...@redrokk.com wrote: Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective on. We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or week. This is a very interesting research study done on noise levels. It suggests a specific level of noise actually encourages more collaboration and creativity: http://news.illinois.edu/news/12/0514NoiseCreativity_RaviMehta.html What are your thoughts on playing music in the background? Sincerely, Tyler Byrd | President Red Rokk Interactive, Inc C: (360) 920-2462 | O: (360) 747-7401 | F: (954) 867-1177 b...@redrokk.com | www.RedRokk.com Video Introduction to Red Rokk: http://youtu.be/5XRSUn__jow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/rRsepfh4iJQJ. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- twb member, Workantile @twbrandt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- Thomas Riboulet +33 (0) 698 926 057 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
Re: [Coworking] Background Music in a Coworking Space
We play background music at http://fruitworks.co usually rotating popular radio stations or Spotify. We used it to get through the quiet startup days but now we're busier we still play it. We use a pair of 2.1 speakers plugged into a laptop but because our space is quite large, it's hard to get the sound to travel without being too loud at one end, so we're currently installing 6.1 speakers with the satellites mounted around the far corners of the space etc. A member here made a shared music server in a hackathon - we haven't had chance to set it up yet and we're hoping that by the end of the next hackathon this month, the Mac OSX and Windows GUI clients for it will be done. If so, I'm sure he'll make it all open source. Kind Regards, Liam Gooding Managing Director - T: +44 (0) 1227 807210 M: +44 (0) 7540 359277 W: www.fruitbowlmedia.com E: liam.good...@fruitbowlmedia.com Skype: liam.gooding_fruitbowlmedia Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/liamgooding Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fruitbowlmedia Fruitbowl Media specialise in delivering highly targeted e-marketing solutions to the conferences and events sector. Our unique approach ensures that every visitor to your website fulfils your conversion goals, through constant tracking, reporting and iterative improvement. Our attention to detail and industry knowledge builds autonomy, allowing you to focus on high value business development and management tasks. On 14 Aug 2012, at 16:22, Thomas ribou...@gmail.com wrote: hi, same thing here at Tau (France, Toulouse) we started plugging a pair of speakers to one laptop some weeks ago and now the cable jump from one laptop to another depending on who's here what's been played, the mood etc ... I think (and have experienced) that background music do help to keep a better mood around and probably allows people to forget about people based noise that come with a filled space (people walking, whispering, phone ringing, doors opening etc ...) on a practical manner : I've been looking at github hubot and play (https://github.com/play/play/) for some time and plan to test such a setup (related article : http://zachholman.com/screencast/play/). Z. Holman article is also interesting on the human side of having a common, community managed, music stream going on. you could also use things like spotify and deezer to share, edit and play playlists I suppose, and from my university's years I remember tons of open source projects to handle web based jukeboxes anyone got tips about the hardware side to setup this ? small form factor pc, media friendly pcs ? TR On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Tom Brandt twbra...@gmail.com wrote: I think it is a good thing, depending on what it is. We have a couple of members who play quite a bit of music over the big speakers from their own collections or from rdio, spotify, etc. When they are not here it seems pretty quiet. On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM, RedRokk b...@redrokk.com wrote: Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective on. We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or week. This is a very interesting research study done on noise levels. It suggests a specific level of noise actually encourages more collaboration and creativity: http://news.illinois.edu/news/12/0514NoiseCreativity_RaviMehta.html What are your thoughts on playing music in the background? Sincerely, Tyler Byrd | President Red Rokk Interactive, Inc C: (360) 920-2462 | O: (360) 747-7401 | F: (954) 867-1177 b...@redrokk.com | www.RedRokk.com Video Introduction to Red Rokk: http://youtu.be/5XRSUn__jow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/coworking/-/rRsepfh4iJQJ. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- twb member, Workantile @twbrandt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Coworking group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- Thomas Riboulet +33 (0) 698 926 057 -- You
