[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 139 KB, 700x828, 1545396665152.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19066240 No.19066240 [Reply] [Original]

Thoughts on this? I personally cannot read without having a bit of background noise, and when I write I blast the music loud, but that's not important right now.
For people who need a little quiet and non-distracting music on while they read: what do you normally leave on? Calm ambient, Gamelan, baroque music, Erik Satie, etc. all welcome, as long as it's useful for background noise. The more lethargic and quieter the better.
Pic unrelated, Beethoven's music isn't good for background noise (it's too complex and great to ignore).

>> No.19066244

>>19066240
does my mom yelling at me to get a job count as music

>> No.19066251

>>19066244
It does if you record and release it.

>> No.19066376

I prefer the sound of rain or maybe a fireplace. There are a lot of videos with that type of sound and even custom generators.
But look up chamber music or quartets for a genre very much designed after your goals.

>> No.19066475

>>19066240
Minimalist classical-- John Adams, Max Richter, or Philip Glass. Also cello music (Giovanni Sollima).

Adams:
https://youtu.be/-CvtZCawxw0
https://youtu.be/XYYN_sG5y58

Richter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaD031UZUw
https://youtu.be/84yBioZZwf4
https://youtu.be/Vz1zK2szEM8
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5F483EA08F096E78 (ringtones/concept album e.g. https://youtu.be/bvp91p5RgpQ))

Glass:
https://youtu.be/bwC7_Lj9jKE
https://youtu.be/lYaHT5wIEMQ
https://youtu.be/DCV1Bjc1-U8
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8kG3bjhFO6-QtOLNZr7rayseFgLyY0Fg (Solo Piano album e.g. https://youtu.be/wVrODAN0xkM))

Sollima:
https://youtu.be/Dbd_sfw-TAY
https://youtu.be/rU9fkQ0MEz0
https://youtu.be/eo9kCcjkQkA

While making that sampler I noticed 3/4 of them are arrangements or reimaginings of Vivaldi.

>> No.19066476

>>19066240
Lmao I thought you meant sitting down to read sheet music or guitar tabs for hours on end.
>so it has come to this

>> No.19066480

>>19066476
>What do you mean you LISTEN to Beethoven? Do you only listen to audiobooks too? Or only watch film adaptations of Shakespeare? If you don't read Beethoven, you haven't experienced him.
One week and some /lit/ goober will have made this his schtick.

>> No.19066484

>>19066476
Same lol, I thought OP wants to read sheet music and asks if it's a good idea.

>> No.19066516

>>19066476
>>19066484
I thought that as well until I read the description. Ungrateful fuck was triggered by perceived criticism and didn't even thank me for the playlist I made him.

>> No.19066541

>>19066475
Seconding minimalism, as well as stuff like Satie and Mompou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjy5TjR3D1c

>> No.19066589

>>19066541
I listened to a lot of Satie when reading part 3 of In Search of Lost Time, so now he and Proust are connected in my mind. I suppose it's fitting.

>> No.19066598
File: 68 KB, 373x370, 1611669227449.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19066598

>>19066475
>>19066541
>Minimalist classical
wew

>> No.19066615

>>19066589
I love that guy, he was also full based schizo who owned 365 umbrellas for any day of the year, walked around with a big hammer for self defense and ate only white food, I mean literally white, of the white color, didn't want to eat anything of different colors.

>> No.19066689

>>19066240
At first I thought you were talking about sheet music.

>> No.19066692

>>19066598
Yeah it sucks but OP didn't ask for quality, he asked for quiet and lethargic music

>> No.19066782
File: 650 KB, 499x699, 1611278021172.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19066782

>>19066598
>>19066692
Pseuds detected.

>> No.19066835

>>19066782
Minimalism is literally the worst classical style/movement.

>> No.19067018
File: 3 KB, 119x128, 1615252317894.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19067018

>>19066782
>m*nimalistfag calling literally anyone a pseud

>> No.19067083
File: 225 KB, 640x460, 23902904209432049.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19067083

>>19066835
>>19067018
(you)

>> No.19067302

>>19066240
I always prefer total silence and even the slightest noise annoys me. Same when I sleep. I am very stressed when I go to stores because the music always annoys me and I can't tune it out (I think it's because I was a musician for a long time). My perfect idle living environment would be a sensory isolation tank in a cloistered monastery in the middle of a forest.

>> No.19067336

>>19067083
Minimalism is literally worse than pop music, because pop at least doesn't waste your time if it's shitty. It's telling how insecure you are if you think only an elitist/pseud could think bad of minimalshit.

>> No.19067345

>>19066615
And he fulfilled the ultimate dream of all artistic types, blowing out his liver before the age of 60 by drinking like a madman. Many dream it, few have the fortitude to follow through. I myself pussied out after only three years of non-stop, brain-frying amounts of alcohol. A true hero.

>> No.19067349
File: 33 KB, 300x300, Musicfor18cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19067349

>BINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBINGBING
>omg so nice, so emotional

>> No.19067622

>>19067349
I like the way this sounds and I think it's great JRPG world map music but 1 fucking hour on the same tempo, yeah that's grating. I guess I'm too much of a pleb to understand it, eh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIhZbvlCjY0
This is one I like although I rarely listen to music anymore.

>> No.19067681
File: 24 KB, 520x479, 1627182856972.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19067681

>>19067349
>>19067336
>literally...literally...literally...
I'm just calling you ?both? out for being pseuds. Personally, I find quite a bit of minimalist music pretentious and generally unlistenable (John Adams especially). Minimalism attracts pseuds from both sides--those who want to overintellectualize it and those like yourselves; offering up a contrived opinion based on a shallow read that's been around for +50 years as if its demonstrative of your discerning taste.

If you don't like minimalism--fine (strangers honestly don't care, no matter how impressed you imagine us to be). However, if you go around shitting up a board with contrived "personal" opinions regarding something as subjective as musical tastes to read by--expect to be called pseuds.

I'm going to enjoy some music and a nice novel. Pseuds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4XMeY1RkWQ

>> No.19067696

>>19066476
Yeah I was disappointed to see that it was not this

>> No.19068048

>>19066251
would be a good ambient albim desu

>> No.19068104

>>19067349
bro you don't get it, the textures bro... they're changing... slowly...

>> No.19068323
File: 8 KB, 200x200, 200px-Tony-soprano.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19068323

>>19068104
OMG YES it's was going BINGBINGBINGBING for the last five minutes but now it's going BONGBONGBONGBONG instead!

>>19067681
>>literally...literally...literally...
That's literally a minimalist writing style.
>I'm going to enjoy some music and a nice novel.
How many times do you reread the same page of a novel before moving on to the next one? I usually do it five to ten times, but once I read the same page the whole day, read it 102 times, it was truly a sublime feeling.

>> No.19069009

See >>19067681
>Minimalism attracts pseuds from both sides
>>19068104 >those who want to overintellectualize
>>19068323 >contrived opinion/shallow read...as if it's demonstrative of a discerning taste

FYI: When someone predicts what the basis of your takes are before you present them--it's a pretty good indication you're a pseud.

>>literally...literally...literally...
"Literally" is a disfluency stupid people use when: a) they don't have a firm take on something so their ego tells them to present it to others as self-evident or b) they mean figuratively and are too dumb to come up with a decent analogy. Speaking of bad analogies...
>How many times do you reread
Here, learn something today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing
(I tend to reread poems multiple times :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHGam5e4Afo

>> No.19069454

>>19066240
Anybody else?