/lit/ - Literature

>trying to give your book a soundtrack the author didn't intend

>>20317310
mostly audiobooks. right now for example im listening to cheap thrillers like karin slaughter cause it helps me relax while reading and is not as distracting

>>20317310
If I really need to concentrate, I don't listen to anything, but if I'm just casually reading about history or poetry, or when I'm writing, this is my go to. It's probably my favorite record.

>>20317310
anything from metal, punk, industrial, ambient, noise, experimental, classical, folk/neofolk, jazz, prog

>>20317329
Same, when Floe comes on it feels like I'm ascending

>>20317329
woops forgot picture

>>20317310
Truman show soundtrack by the same name you posted OP. Nothing really distracts me or I would agree with anon here>>20317318
I listen to various traditional and contemporary styles. For traditional its mostly classical, baroque, and ancient music. For contemporary I have an even wider variety. Psychedelic rock, alternative rock, metal, jazz, funk, and funk-metal makes up the majority of my music archive. I'll listen to anything as long as it fits the mood.

>>20317481
>inb4 il/lit/erates point out my typo and call me a nigger

>>20317310
I prefer to do one thing at a time. Music often detracts from books, and reading detracts from the music.

That being said, Glassworks slaps. I also like a lot of jazz - New Crystal Silence and Blue Camel (Rabih-Abou Khalil) have gotten a lot of listens lately.

>>20317310
>What do you guys listen to
The Strokes, The Voidz, some jazz and blues covers of other songs, Ludovico Einaudi on occasion
>when you read
Ambient train noises

>>20317310
Charles Mingus

>>20317329
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>>20317354
lol @ this misunderstanding

>>20317310
PG’s better for driving (at night) in my experience
I lean toward Debussy/Ravel when I’m reading, but I recently discovered this and I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit:
>https://youtu.be/3iPlkeDKB08

>>20317310
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoG5E5n0wqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViyRg3e-ts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pJnYbcMz2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPlK5HwFxcw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AudTBMW_YU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_XgfYV5pww

>>20318838
phenomenally based

i think i'm falling for this unique specimen of crude but groovy nazi neopsychedelia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlfzD-NLKXQ

people who listen to music while reading or while doing stimulating school work are geniuses I cant do that.

>>20317329
>If I really need to concentrate, I don't listen to anything, but if I'm just casually reading poetry...
MFW

Hard blues rock, jazz, or just blues. a moment when i could, but am not listening to music is a moment wasted. It does slow down the reading sometimes though for example on a particularly good solo I have to put the book down for a min and then try and pick up again

>>20317310
reading evokes emotion and thought
music evokes emotion and thought

doing the two at the same time seems disrespectful, if not distracting.
research shows studying while listening to music is counter-productive.
bet that reading while listening to music results in less "deep reading", if any.

The metronomic electrical groaning and the ambient movement of air created from my ceiling fan

I demand absolute silence when I read. Even if it means telling a bar filled with people to hush

i posted my recent listens in a /mu/ chart thread while banned from here, was not well-received.

>>20317310
>Glass
Garbage.

>>20319445
i thought he meant reading about poetry, like books as how to read a poem, abc of reading etc..
lol

I get made cause my dad practices music from 5-9 every day and thats when I want to read poetry

>>20319521
*mad

>>20319510
Most /mu/tards hate classical and gobble up whatever zoomer garbage is out there. There was even a thread praising MGK and I wanted to vomit

>>20319538
That being said I can go from shit like Rotten Sound and Phobia to Borknagar and Marduk to Black Sabbath and Saint Vitus to Tygers Of Pan Tang and Grim Reaper to non metal like Skinny Puppy, Severed Heads, Controlled Bleeding, Test Dept. and all sorts of prog like Can, Faust, Univers Zero, Henry Cow to even jazz like Albert Alyer, Charles Mingus, Return To Forever, Sonny Sharrock, and classical ranging from Carlo Gesualdo to Karlheinz Stockhausen and various punk and hardcore bands from early stuff like The Dead Boys (Stiv Bators was born near me) and The New York Dolls to the hard-core sound of Minor Threat, Youth Of Today, Agnostic Front and Gorilla Biscuits. I even like ambient and harsh noise music.

>>20319560
nice taste anon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2QsquE6W_U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbYs7ARVfy8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dO9O-v3rS8

i feel like they treat these names as branding, it's the name and the image that matters, like it's supposed to make you the anon appear in a favorable light for purpose of getting applause from others... I'm convinced few people here or there like things for themselves—as if i were declaring: BEHOLD my fave classical *smirk*, or should i say baroque, records, pretty big-brained and sophisticated, right?...*booing, heckling* NOOOO these are basic... mainstream... where's the obscure no wave... where's the ecleticism... where's the provocative poptimism... no Chief Keef... no Carly Rae Jespen... no Whitehouse?????
*further boooing*
what a trite observation, anon
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>>20317310
I can only listen to soft stuff like lute and harp or ambient music.

>>20319515
>listening to Wagner while reading
You're completely retarded or you don't actually read, his music is way too interesting and busy to have as background music.

>>20319607
I like the lute but only as part of a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnBfAhAA6c

>>20319612
I read Wagner while listening to Wagner.

>>20319615
Cute

>>20319445
I said reading about poetry, anon, as in reading biographies or criticism or histories. But also sometimes I casually read poetry. Not all poetry needs close scrutiny to be appreciated, and especially if its poetry which I've already read and studied many times before.

>>20317486
Why so defensive buddy?

>>20317310
This is my favorite album while reading

>>20318956
Man these guys sound great. Thanks anon!