I love listening to afrobeat or funky jazz music when doing anything
creative.
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Fela Kuti
Will Bernard
Stanton Moore
Karl Denson
Charlie Hunter (8-string guitar)
John Scofield
http://www.archive.org/details/etree
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As stated by many above it depends on the task at hand or type of
focus needed. I do like Sirius or Pandora to mix it up as I sometimes
fall into a rut - see music below :).
Detailed Work
Eno - Music for Airports
Moby - A mix of his albums
Radiohead - Any album
Creative Work
Radiohead - Any alb
People assume I'm joking when I say this. But I REALLY love "The
Most Unwanted Song"
http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/
22 minutes of music genius.
I enjoy coding to it. And other interesting music like Balinese
Gamelan and Traditional Indian. Why? Like all creative ac
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:19 AM, J. Ambrose Little
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> Often I find I have to turn off more mood-based music (like metal, rock,
> indie, etc.) because mood changes or it starts feeling repetitive and even
> annoying. This stuff I can just listen to for hours (even tho Pandora
> repeats a lot
Often I find I have to turn off more mood-based music (like metal, rock,
indie, etc.) because mood changes or it starts feeling repetitive and even
annoying. This stuff I can just listen to for hours (even tho Pandora
repeats a lot on this station) w/ my Bose headphones (which provide the nice
thw
"Its over a year since the last post like this..."
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=39321 ;-)
My choice depends upon the work. For coding complicated stuff or
really working on interaction, then silence is best for me. Rock
music does the job when I want some ideas (paper prototypes / loose
c
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> Music to Design to - What gets your creative juices flowing?
> Started June 16th at 2:39am
Gregorian chants & Bach cello concertos. Complex, engaging, but not
distracting.
--Andrea Richeson
Welcome to the Interaction De
yeah.. I connect with music so intensely that, I have a hard time
focusing on anything but the music if the source is in close
proximity, and the task at hand is cerebral in nature (i.e., driving,
physical labor, and music-specific endeavors excluded).
Actually, I'm able to have Brian Eno's "Ambi
Nothing gets my blood flowing like fast and loud punk/pop-punk. Here
are some of my favorite songs:
Saves the Day - Shoulder to the Wheel
Allister - Somewhere Down on Fullerton
Strung Out - Paperwalls
Blink 182 - Touchdown Boy
Pennywise - Surfin' USA
Ramones - Judy is a Punk
After that initial b
I _wish_ I could listen to music while working.
Every single possible type of music ends up distracting my attention
so much it might as well be fingernails on a chalkboard.
I'm not sure why that is .. I've heard of a few other people having
the same problem, but I think it's more rare than comm
Like others, traditional pop structures and lyrics, though I like
them, distract me from work. I like to sing along too much!
Chill/down-tempo/trip-hop and instrumental (guitar mostly) help me
work the best.
Phillip
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New Age music is particularly useful to me. It lets me focus on the
important, frees my mind from the unnecessary, and takes me to a
world of imagination:)
I've also seen designers listen to pop music or rock music to pump
them up. A lot of the research participants I interviewed in the past
seem
The only kind of music that actually helps me focus and doesn't
distract from work is ambient techno and space music:
Definiton:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_music
Examples:
Anthony Rother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t96pq45kJcE
Pete Namlook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mu7fKgcVx
It definitely comes down to personal preference. I know a lot of people like
to accompany their keyboard time with electronic/ambient music. I tried that
but it never really stuck.
So I listen to light/indie rock and some instrumental, like Josh Rouse,
Sufjan Stevens, Explosions in the Sky, etc. I
Even though I'm now 50, I seem to NEED Metallica's Black Album to
code to when starting any new project. It seems to get me in the mood
for lots of fiddly tags, CSS IDs and controls! ;-) I must admit,
however that after over 10 years of Metallica I can now almost do the
same with White Zombie! I th
Its over a year since the last post like this...
Music is important to me when designing as it helps inspire, keeps me
creative and helps me stay in the zone. Personally I find more ambient
music more effective as catchy tunes can often find you singing along
or breaking into a guitar riff mid des
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