/lit/ - Literature

Pretty stupid thread, desu.

>>12844655
you can't listen to classical while reading unless you have absolutely no understanding of music. personally i can't listen to music while reading. multitasking is impossible. it's just half-doing two things simultaneously while deceiving yourself

>>12844655

>>12844655
I, a true patrician, blast Xenakis and Schnittke at full volume simultaneously while reading The Unnamable aloud.

>>12844655
>patrician
>mixing medias

>he believes he has to listen to classical music to look smart, like the true NPC that he is

>>12844655
I do but I just pick random playlists on spotify. I couldnt name very many composers or songs. Philip Glass is cool I guess

>>12844655
Read in silence or with very faint ambient music.

>>12844655
>underrating Mozart

>>12844655
I listen to Mozart's Leck Mich am Arsch on repeat. Yes.

>>12844655
>not composing your own melody based on the individual book's line by line emotional impact
It's like you guys want to stay plebs

>>12844977
Fptmiu

>>12844984
I unironically do this wtf

>listening to music while reading
Offf

>>12845071
>in taberna quando sumus, nid curamus quod sit humus

Good for learning latin.

>>12845091
*quid sit humus
Well done, you memorized a few sentences and you didn't even do it correctly.

>>12844655
why yes, i put on headphones and listen to VAPORWAVE on low volume when it's noisy around.
if it's absolutely quiet, i read in silence.

>>12844920
BASED

>>12844655
I don't listen to any music when I read; I find it distracting.

>>12844655
Only when there's other distracting noises that are out of my control.

>not listening to bluesy rock while reading.

>>12844675
So much this.

>>12844655
Recommend me some dramatic classical music made by historical composers. Anything ranging from antagonist-like themes to tragedy to distress. Something consistent or repetitive that doesn't require me to rewind every minute. Somebody. Anybody.

Recommend me some dramatic classical music made by historical composers. Anything ranging from antagonist-like themes to tragedy to distress to mystical to mysterious. Something consistent or repetitive that doesn't require me to rewind every minute. Somebody. Anybody.

>>12845917
Unkle adams

>>12844675
>>12845890
This is why I listen to repetitive electronic music or I put a movie on in a language I don't understand in the background. I can't stand silence I have an anger and agitation issue that's not helped by the meds I'm taking away.

>not listening to black metal while you read romantic era philosophy
Nigga.

>>12845917
https://youtu.be/kBEwf_zdrnw?t=1323

>classical
>not Mozart
Mais ferme la abruti retourne jouer ta guitare folk et tes instruments de gueux

>>12845917
>dramatic classical music
You're looking for romantic music, not classical

>>12846266
>he thinks people mean classicist/classical era music when they say "classical music"
based retard

>>12844655
How do I become well-versed in classical music, bros? I only know the major names and pieces. I listen to the local Classical station on the radio, and enjoy it a lot. But it's such a different world. I'm not sure how to become properly familiar with it.

I heard Franz Listz's "Liebestraum" earlier in the car, however you spell all that. It was so wonderful.

>>12844675
Eh. I put Philip Glass on in the background while reading sometimes. Not like it’s my first time listening to glassworks.

>>12844655
I listen Gustav Holts and Tchaikovsky on my headphones when everyone around me won’t shut the fuck up and let me read in peace like a true autist

>>12845917
>tfw listening to the diablo 2 soundtrack while reading fantasy

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

>>12844920
>Schnittke
Incomprehensible l'art pour l'art nonsense.
Just listen to Shostakovich

a) mozart is genuinely great and if you just think of him as cutesy background music you have zero understanding of music
b) i don't listen to music when i read because i don't want to split my attention between two things at once and try and make each take the character of the other

>>12847142
Mozart is the Beatles of Baroque music.

>>12847153
mozart isn't baroque
i hope for your sake that was a clever bait and not just you being fucking stupid

>>12847157
missed the point of my comment
When baroque was all there was, mozart came about and made dozens of songs in different genres of traditional music the way the beatles did with rock. He's like the catalyst of evolution on a musical standpoint.
The beatles invented metal as mozart invented classical.

>>12845917
carl orff carmina burana

>>12844655
That's the least patrician thing I've ever heard. Reading while listening to music is disrespectful to both the author and the composer, whose works require your full attention. Like all patricians I read in utter silence in my soundproof study.

>>12846905
Strange that there's a wojak for this specific condition. Did you make this yourself?

>>12847170
oh that's a much better take than what i thought you meant

No I use ear plugs.

I see it's time to flex my barbarically large, and venerable 100+gigs (superior 320kps) music collection.

For reading contemporary philosophy and mathematics we have

>Brain eno
>monolake
>The witcher 3 soundtrack

>>12847201
oh wow 100 gigs wow

>>12847207
HOYL CRAP. i can't even imagine knowing so much music lmao

I'm this >>12846937 anon here

>>12844655
Yeah actually I'll listen to piano pieces that match the atmosphere of the book

If I'm reading history usually turn on Baroque, if I'm reading fiction I'll usually turn on some romantic music.

>>12847207
f-fuck... you're big...

>>12847207
You are a God, anon. You must love music more than anyone you know of, huh? Probably feel quite lonely in that aspect, I imagine. I wish I could DL your knowledge of music into my head, pleb that I am. Can you give me advice on how to become acquainted with the world of music? Thank you.

I'm again >>12847215 anon. If you could at least answer my Classical inquiry, I'd appreciate it dude.

>>12847249
Not that anon but maybe go on youtube and type in Classical music or look up videos of Yuja Wang. She's my favorite. She's fucking hot.

>>12847207
have you actually listened to all this?

>>12847263
yes
some of it only once
some of it many many times

i'm probably older than you (35)
this is two decades of downloading and listening to music
some of it i end up listening to again and again
some of it i remember years and years later and go back to
some of it comes up on shuffle once a decade
some of it i expect i will never listen to again but how do i know what that will that be

>>12847282
Hey lol can you send me your Andrew WK, Dangermouse, Dan Deacon (if you have any album other than Bromst, Meetle Mice, and Silly Hats), DyE, Girls, Hot Chip (if you have any album other than In Our Heads and One Life Stand), Johannes Brahms, John Coltrane, and La Femme?

>>12847207
The anon you're replying to here.

1. Is this .flac?

2. The vast majority of your library is utter plebeian trash.

3. My library, like the finest of wines, has been handpicked over a decade of scrupulous and exacting specifications, to comprise nothing but the best of the best of the best.

You insult yourself by presenting me with this swill not fit for a peasant.

I bet you don't even have ozric tentacles or shpongle.

>>12844675
I love music more than reading, but this is absolutely true. The music gets too distracting.

Sometimes I might listen to some light jazz like Bill Evans though

it's definitely odd when I draw listening to music makes far more lucid in the task, whilst reading though it makes me agitated maybe they share the same part of the brain

>>12847306
a lot is flac
ok. i have wide tastes. at one youthful stage i was very snobby and elitist but as i got older i got interested in more things and less interested in being purist
good for you buddy
i'm sorry
no i don't but i will check them out because i'm more interested into listening to music people are passionate about than appearing cool

>>12847333
I'm just putting on the 4chan persona, man, it's all good.

But in sincerity the size of your library should be measured only in the album's and artist that you genuinely love. Music isn't about what you have or how much of it you've collected, it's about what speaks to you.

1tb of shit you don't care about isn't worth anything.

>>12847341
It is to me.
Put it on mediafile or dropbox and link me the albums I requested thanks.

>>12847341
i like a lot of things
i'm old by 4chan standard (mid 30s) and have listened to a fucking shitload of music
lots of that music i love even if i don't listen to i9t every day
everything else i have enjoyed and maybe will again

>>12847352
Ok well, definitely listen to shpongle. And ozric tentacles. Crystal method too.

Then try lights and wires by black sun empire.

>>12847207
A well balanced musical diet here. Solid jazz chops too. This is very similar to how I go about listening to music.

>>12847207
> Britney Spears
> Avril Lavigne
kys

>>12847105
>Incomprehensible
And what music is comprehensible?
>l'art pour l'art
And what music exists for something outside of itself and beauty, beside banal political music?

>>12847170
Classical was already "invented" by the time Mozart became notable.

>>12846937
Read some theory and history and dig around. Go to concerts too. Maybe learn an instrument, if you can. It's not some philosophy.

>>12844655
>cutesy Mozart piano sonata periodic shit
You reduced the IQ of everyone who saw this thread by 5 points.

>>12847422
Schnittke's music is neither pleasing or beautiful. Or comprehensible to someone with no musical education for that matter.

>>12847394
>not appreciating the sly chromaticism of toxic
baka desu senpai

>>12847448
This.
If you don't like Brittany Spears, you're underaged.

>>12847207
i had 300GB of Bob Dylan bootlegs bucko

>>12847463
i love you dad

>>12847446
>Schnittke's music is neither pleasing or beautiful.
Well, the job of art isn't to be pleasing or beautiful anyway.
>Or comprehensible to someone with no musical education for that matter.
I don't have much serious musical education and I quite enjoyed what I heard of him. On the other hand, as I said, can we say that we truly comprehend any work of art, with or without knowledge of theory? How much does this comprehension really matter?

>>12847448
I'm a guy and listening to Britney really makes me feel feminine, desu. Uncomfortably so. I imagine AGP's and sissy's must go wild hearing her.

>>12847454
Or, you're an adult male that doesn't get most of his calories from Onions.

>>12847701
You're not an adult. You're a manchild.

>>12847707
Very elitist for someone whose taste in music is on par with a teenage girl's.

>>12847719
Teenage girls listen to billie ellish and that brown girl with the ponytail, not britney.
It's not 2009 anymore, daddy.

>>12847730
They're basically the same shit.

>>12847763
Wrong.

I guess music that doesn't require much attention would be great for reading, e.g. ambient, lounge (library music, exotica and space age pop could fill this label) and noise (specially HNW).

>>12847207
You should torrent this

>>12844655

Mixing media isn't patrician.

>>12844655
No because Wagner deserves my full attention you philistine.

>>12846937

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