/lit/ - Literature

right here buddy

>>19109266
Just the music that you like.
Or this

>>19109266
Jazz

>>19109266
the real book

>>19109266
Ambient music literally has zero value. One melody regurgitated until the end of time.

fridge+A/C

>>19109266
floating points - promises

Tim Hecker is cool

>>19109266
ryuji ikeda

>>19109266
nothing man, this trend of listening to music when reading is a zoomer bullshit.

>>19110390
i bet you listen to the most utter dreck shit post 3x3 faggot

Please check out the album Goodbye to Language by Daniel Lanois. It’s perfect for this.

>>19111244
why? drowns out other background noise, voices etc that can be distracting

>>19111444
How do you (and others) do with reading and concentrating in semi-noisy environments? I’d be fine with like industrial noise. But reading on public transportation or in a cafe, etc. is absolutely impossible for me. And I like music in the background but not on headphones, it becomes too much. Wish I could improve this.

MDM/black metal

Good Bible reading music
Tangerine dream is cool too

>>19112348
Dope cover

I don't do music while reading but for studying and other boring shit I like listening to Glenn Gould, Vivaldi, Bill Evans, and music in foreign languages so I'm not distracted by thr lyrics :)

>>19109266
Listen to music from the author’s country of origin, or which corresponds with the setting of the narrative. For example, Russian classical music by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, or 19th century Russian waltzes go well with Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Chekhov. Wagner for Nietzsche. Beethoven for Goethe.

>>19112381
Why

>>19109287
All end?

Frank Zappa’s music probably isn’t the best for reading but it’s all I listen to so there ya go.

>>19112460
They’re from the same zeitgeist so they’ll go well together.

>>19111244
I agree with nothing, whenever I listen to music while reading it distracts me beyond belief.

>>19112634
Ok

>>19111701
Not him, but I used to listen to radio talk shows or podcasts and try to concentrate on what's being said while doing other things, like playing videogames or writing code. I guess it's just a skill you develop overtime. I still can't do tasks that overlap like listening to a podcast and reading at the same time, but I don't think anyone can do that.

I like listening to campfire songs by animal collective when reading faulkner

>>19109266
4'33 by John Cale on loop

>>19113621
Nice

>>19109287
Finally, some proper fucking taste around here

>>19109266
nothing

>>19109266
Rarely while reading, since I find most music far too involving by itself, regardless of whether it's something wanted or unwanted. (What could be more loathsome than having music forced on you in a public place or at work?) And while there's almost always music in my head, sometimes things I haven't heard for decades, for writing it's another matter. It can be used to impose a mood, summon memory of a certain time & place, invoke a subject. It can augment conscious control. Synesthetic pathways differ, but during creative spells mine goes from sound to sight to words. It's also an error to assume that lyrical writing must necessarily be serene as pic related is, since even rant or bawdiness can be undertaken deliberately or in a highly self-aware way, provided there are pertaining images, and that they cohere at least as well as daydreams do. The overriding rule or priority I follow is that if in reading or writing there's nothing to see as a result, it's almost certainly bad as it is pointless. This principle holds as well for weighing shitpost quality and the magnificence of bastards, such as they are.

Ambient or anything similar, I get distracted by music too easily while im reading so its a nice inbetween.
Its somewhat aspie but I like to listen to only one album per book i read so whenever i listen to that album again it reminds of that book. Kinda like how certain scents remind you of different memories and times in ur life.

>>19109266
John Cage 4'33 on repeat

>>19113621
The patrician choice, the sounds of nature are all that one should listen to when reading

>>19113621
You mean John Cage? John cale pretty good too though

>>19109266
Good music requires attention. The idea of music as “background” is performative bourgeois degeneracy. Anyone have good recommendations for movies to watch while I read? Anyone like to listen to audiobooks while they read?

>>19109874
If we’re sticking to jazz, this Wayne Shorter album is another good one for background music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDNy_GHNsiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie5koh4qvJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVlurNHtFhw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y56ODjb8ZMo

>>19109266
Boards of Canada.
Music Has the Right To Children and The Campfire Headphase give me strong DFW vibes.

>>19116349
This is awesome.

>>19116340
Retarded opinion. Go suck a dick.

get on brown noise, like white noise, but e a r t h i e r

>>19109287
based

>>19109266
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnLa7OU50YE

>>19111701
if its an environment with lots of voices i go for music but strictly instrumental, usually ambient. could be anything from mahler to glass to john surman to boards of canada etc

>>19109874
>>19116349
basado
https://youtu.be/9XVNzU9OqMc
and Brian Eno obviously

>>19113048
don't do this shit lol, you're giving yourself brain damage
>In one study, researchers from Stanford University asked their student participants to report on their frequency of multitasking using different media. That is, how often do they report watching TV, texting, or listening to music while working on their computers? Based on those self-reports, the researchers divided the students into two groups—heavy multitaskers and light multitaskers.
>Then, they tested these students on their ability to perform several cognitive tasks, including tests of task-switching ability. Common sense would predict that heavy multitaskers would show a benefit of practice on task switching since they spend so much time doing it.
>But the authors instead found a paradox. The heavy multitaskers were worse at the task-switching tests than the light multitaskers. They were more easily distracted by irrelevant cues, and their ability to hold more than one thing in mind was worse than the students who were less likely to do two things at once.
>The authors conclude that heavy multitaskers are less able to filter out distractions from the environment. They have more trouble ignoring intrusive memories and, most surprising of all, they are less able to suppress the interference from a rival task when asked to focus on a target one. That is, they are worse at switching between tasks.

>>19109266
I used to listen to Tycho and Bonobo a lot when reading

>>19118202
for more info check:
https://news.stanford.edu/2018/10/25/decade-data-reveals-heavy-multitaskers-reduced-memory-psychologist-says/

>>19109266
https://youtu.be/u5PG7aRYS1k
https://youtu.be/fbqNtcpkeLM
https://youtu.be/CydoHnlWpEI

>>19109266
I find music interferes with the mood of the book. I'll only listen to it while reading if what's going on around me is even more distracting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4oLMGThh3k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFgDqQQzmfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM4D1ueq_TM

>>19118260
Ambient music in the background isn’t a multitask, faggot.

>>19111444
If you need to drown background sounds just listen to white or brown noice. Anything else, especially something with lyrics, is too distracting. At least for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3yqrQNZW-E

>>19118202
It occurred to me that my attention span and concentration have been gradually getting worse after I first got a second monitor in 2016, but I didn't know about the thing with intrusive memories.

>>19118260
From what I'm reading, it seems that listening to ambient music while reading would be considered a light multitask. A heavy multitast would be having 5 books out and reading one page from each at a time, or reading while listening to music with lyrics and having a TV or Youtube on another screen. I personally never do "heavy" multitasking, or if I have, the last time was probably 3 or 4 years ago. I recently took an IQ test (go ahead, laugh) and scored over 130 on memory IQ, which leads me to believe that light multitasking (ambient while reading for instance) has no negative effect on memory.

>>19118802
>memory IQ
Was this a legit test?

>>19118820
I don't even remember and I don't care enough about to keep the results, but anyway the point is: multitasking refers to pulling your attention away completely from one thing to do another. The research linked gives the example of writing a paper and then switching to your phone to reply to an email. It can't be considered a heavy multitask if you never pull your attention away from the book for more than a couple seconds. It's not about too many stimuli overloading your brain, it's about developing bad habits from not completing tasks that leads to ADHD-like behavior.

I like Mozart's flute quartets. They go well with everything

>>19118836
The Stanford study in the greentext above considers listening to music while working on a computer multitasking already.

>>19118862
Ambient music is as much of a distraction as the sound of wind or people talking.
>hmm, today I will multitast: breathing, being awake and using my eyes to see things

>>19118899
Why are you arguing with me about the definitions? Just read what the greentext says, it's unlikely you know better than those researchers.

>>19118913
Why should we take for granted what experts say on subjects they're not knowledgable in? Their credibility only extends as far as their specialization. Would you take a lawyer's word on if song parody is a legitimate form of art? Likewise, would you trust a psychologist to distinguish between different music genres in any nuanced way?

>>19118938
I would trust them to at least take into account that listening to something like metal is different than listening to classical, or to ambient. I would guess they listen to music privately like pretty much everybody. Maybe they're not aware of your breathlike music, maybe you can't trust the self reports of the subjects, but I prefer to err on the safe side.

picrel

>>19118202
>paradox