/lit/ - Literature

jazz, house, classical, ambient techno, list could go on.

>>4190400
>Do you listen to music when reading?

Of course not, retard.

>>>/mu/

When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro

with

Kids Return, Joe Hisaishi

>>4190400
carefully selected anime OSTs and other music.
Right now I'm stuck on Building a Mystery.

>>4190407

look at this pleb who can't concentrate on more than one thing at a time

>>4190400
No. I only ever listen to orchestral music or jazz, or minimalist music (see David Borden, Philip Glass, Steve Reich). If you're going to listen to that stuff, you need to devote all of your time and energy to it. It isn't the kind of music you can just have playing in the background.
Although, I'm sure a lot of pop music is just white noise so maybe it doesn't really affect anyone's concentration.

>>4190422
pop music, even if it doesn't require as much attention which is a stupid assertion, by definition grabs your attention by its form and hooks. classical music is more akin to white noise than pop music.

>>4190428
Only because you haven't trained your ears to pick up on the mechanics of music theory. Pop music is inherently limited by the amount of chords and combinations that it can use given the average listener's taste. "Classical" music long ago gave up on trying to be pleasing to the ear before being a medium for expressing an artist's soul.
Just look at Arvo Part's Credo, how it combines the softest, most delicate and precious sounds (taken from a Bach prelude, no less) with the apocalyptic crash of an existential and biblical reckoning.
Hell, anything Glass dashes on a napkin is more complex than the myriad of top tunes belted out by today's or even yesterday's pop idols.

I sometimes listen to jazz while I read, although I can get carried away by it sometimes. It certainly isn't the most productive reading as far as pages/minute go. If I'm studying for something I enjoy listening to downtempo music that isn't so likely to distract me. I find it easier to recall things when I've learned them while listening to music.

I'm fortunate enough to have a small waterfall feature in my back yard and it provides a wonderful area to read with ambient noise. Of course, that doesn't quite count as music so I suppose it doesn't really apply to the thread.

>>4190422
Do you ever listen to orchestral music, jazz, or minimalist music in your car? If you do, you aren't devoting ALL of your time and energy to it. What if I listen to jazz while I'm running? I can generally focus my mind solely on the music while most of my energy is devoted to moving my legs.

I'm not saying devoted listening is bad, it just appears that you're too caught up with trying to sound musically superior.

I listen to Merzbow or ambient music.

>>4190476

> Merzbow

Toppest of tip keks

>>4190464
I'm not trying to sound musically superior (although it is how I'm coming across, granted), I'm saying that "classical" music is more complex than pop music and requires a lot more energy into understanding it and even enjoying it than the top 40 or whatever list of hit songs.
As for "all your time and energy," I meant while you're trying to understand the musical piece. I will listen tot the same 10-minute piece 20 times in a row trying to catch every note that I can (preferably with the sheet music in hand), but after that I can pop it in the car stereo and enjoy it just like anyone else. I just tend to listen to Casella more than Webern on my drive to work.

>>4190487
I'm serious. It's dissonant and completely non-melodic. It's not silence but it's not something to pay attention to.

>>4190422

Recommend me some Jazz for reading anon

>>4190400
Really anything by The Antlers playing softly and not through headphones. It's more like a constant background rather than an active listen obviously.

>>4190511
Fine.
You can never go wrong with a little Miles Davis, and his album Milestones hits that sweet spot between the radical modal shifts of his later years and the populist cool jazz of his middle period.
If you've ever wanted to get into Charles Mingus or Thelonious Monk, their albums Mingus Ah Um and Underground are perfect entry points. Clearly popular but also displaying a renovating and iconoclastic vein which would burst later on, these albums will have you jamming from the very beginning.
Cannonball Adderley and Wayne Shorter are almost never mentioned alongside Coltrane or Davis, but their contributions to jazz out-do Bill Evans or Gil Evans in my book. Cannonball's Somethin' Else really is something else, and the hit songs will stay in your ear for a long time. Shorter's Speak No Evil, dark and brooding with exciting bursts of hard bop is probably the best album I can think of to play on a rainy afternoon.

>>4190511
I enjoy listening to Bitches' Brew, although it tends to cause a divide in the Miles Davis community.

Some instrumental stuff if I'm trying to block out a conversation or some other distracting noise. Usually relaxing jazz/vidya

>>4190511
You should listen to old dixieland and hot jazz from the 20s and 30s. Beyond that, only free jazz comes close. It's a great backing to any Pynchon book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB2vkCqWOmQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhmUTAXVhUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONDr4zau53c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UN9HASo9GU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTKckTmQ-SY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEWQLSAtOKM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsmXCNt0HPE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzfrNhkafxA

Listening to Jazz while reading, dumbest combination I've ever heard.

This is why I hate /lit/

>>4190416
look at this ADHD retard who can't go a second without stimulating all his senses simultaneously

both ways, nigga

>>4190666
>he can't concentrate with music on

You pathetic stupid fucking idiot cunt.

>>4190659
Jazz is probably the plebiest music of all. How it's enthusiasts think it's something more than sub-pop is hilarious.

>>4190552
Your list is totally sucks. Nothing simple, bunch of hyped ignorant things.
>>4190511

Try this:
0. John Coltrane - Impressions or Village Vanguard records from 1961.
1. Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder.
2. Some records of Max Roach with Clifford Brown.
3. Pharoah Sanders - Karma.

That's it, if you listened through this list and get boring, well, jazz isn't for you

I used to do this but then I realized people who do get less out of both the text and the music

>>4190666
you truly are a beast

>>4190691
>putting on music so you can block it out to read
if you're trying to both read a book and listen to music at the same time, then clearly neither the music nor the book is very intelligent.

>>4190552
You sound like an even more pretentions Patrick Bateman, jesus

>>4190734
This is the worst list since Schindler's list

>>4190754
>clearly trying to provoke you
>/thread

>>4190748
I don't know about other people, but when I listen to music when I read, music has a basically a white noise function. I don't really pay attention to the music, but it drowns out everything else that does distract me. Especially on trains.
Also, sometimes it really does heighten the reading experience, just the accumulated atmosphere of the song and what you're reading. if you're lucky.

>>4190748
>opinion
BREAKING NEWS! Humans are different, more at 10!

Do you think films should be void of a soundtrack? Because it's the same thing.

>>4190786
>Because it's the same thing
What the fuck are you reading? The Berenstain Bears?

When I read I like to submerge myself fully in whatever I'm reading. Usually if I don't focus all my attention on reading I can't contemplate and digest the material properly.
So if I were to listen to music while readin it would solely be to block out other more interrupting sounds, being on the bus, train etc. You can't concentrate on both reading and listening to music at the same time and still fully appreciate both. Atleast I can't. Maybe there are someone who can, but I highly doubt anyone in this thread would.
Complete and utter silence is -- and will always be my preffered reading environment.

>>4190798
I was reading a story about a disgruntled lesbian and listening to Sarah McLachlan, and yeah. It was pretty much the same thing.