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Music for Coding
Jul. 14th, 2013 12:00 pm(from a thread elsewhere)
Originally, Bach's works (and in particular the Brandenburg Concertos) were my choice of music to tune out surrounding audible distractions. I first used it when I was working on my diploma thesis in a really lively work group office in the university.
Recently, I have heard much more music at work. I found that I grew a bit tired of wearing headphones, but with the office door open (as I prefer it), there are often distractions from the hall and the other offices that I'd like to tune out. The other desk in my office is vacant, so there is little danger of annoying someone else. I bought speakers.[1]
With speakers, the music not as directly in my head as with headphones, I can hear a much broader spectrum of music than before, music that would have been distracting itself or even annoying when heard through headphones. With that restriction removed, I am now going through more or less the whole (digitized part of) my music collection, and there were some discoveries.
For instance, I have learned that some of the digital music I grabbed at the old work is not my thing. I do not actually like Can or Amon Düül, and I can do without Canned Heat's recordings except for a few songs. Most of Lou Reed's works do nothing for me. I dispensed with Grateful Dead at all. I could go on.
But there are also re-discoveries of things I really like. Some of Michael Jackson; The Selecter; Miles Davis. I love Jacques Loussier and his Bach and Verdi renditions. Even Bob Marley — I was never a real fan of his music, but could now well hear it again. Linton Kwesi Johnson, even much more so.
I have been digging through rather forgotten music of the 70s, 80s, and 90s in recent weeks and am looking forward to check out a great lot of Bach's that I acquired in bulk some time and have not yet even heard, much of it organ works and cantatas.
Great lengths to go to, only to shut out the distracting discussions from neighbour offices!
[1] M-Audio Studiophile AV 40
(press photos from the M-Audio website)
These speakers are sold as near-field monitors, but it is said they are crap as studio monitors. They do make excellent PC speakers, though. M-Audio makes cheap plasticky Chinese music gear, but apparently, as I had heard before, of the good cheap plasticky Chinese kind. And indeed they are cheap, a bit under € 120 for the pair. I like them a lot.
Originally, Bach's works (and in particular the Brandenburg Concertos) were my choice of music to tune out surrounding audible distractions. I first used it when I was working on my diploma thesis in a really lively work group office in the university.
Recently, I have heard much more music at work. I found that I grew a bit tired of wearing headphones, but with the office door open (as I prefer it), there are often distractions from the hall and the other offices that I'd like to tune out. The other desk in my office is vacant, so there is little danger of annoying someone else. I bought speakers.[1]
With speakers, the music not as directly in my head as with headphones, I can hear a much broader spectrum of music than before, music that would have been distracting itself or even annoying when heard through headphones. With that restriction removed, I am now going through more or less the whole (digitized part of) my music collection, and there were some discoveries.
For instance, I have learned that some of the digital music I grabbed at the old work is not my thing. I do not actually like Can or Amon Düül, and I can do without Canned Heat's recordings except for a few songs. Most of Lou Reed's works do nothing for me. I dispensed with Grateful Dead at all. I could go on.
But there are also re-discoveries of things I really like. Some of Michael Jackson; The Selecter; Miles Davis. I love Jacques Loussier and his Bach and Verdi renditions. Even Bob Marley — I was never a real fan of his music, but could now well hear it again. Linton Kwesi Johnson, even much more so.
I have been digging through rather forgotten music of the 70s, 80s, and 90s in recent weeks and am looking forward to check out a great lot of Bach's that I acquired in bulk some time and have not yet even heard, much of it organ works and cantatas.
Great lengths to go to, only to shut out the distracting discussions from neighbour offices!
[1] M-Audio Studiophile AV 40
(press photos from the M-Audio website)
These speakers are sold as near-field monitors, but it is said they are crap as studio monitors. They do make excellent PC speakers, though. M-Audio makes cheap plasticky Chinese music gear, but apparently, as I had heard before, of the good cheap plasticky Chinese kind. And indeed they are cheap, a bit under € 120 for the pair. I like them a lot.