/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15066959]

Do you ever listen to music when reading? If you do, what stuff? If you don't, why not?

[Anonymous No.15066987]

>>15066959
No, I usually put on some white noise.
Music distracts me from reading.

[Anonymous No.15067030]

>>15066959
I like techno or trance because it’s basically the same shit over and over building up to the drop. Then I can groove out to the drop for a bit then go back to reading once the music gets boring again.

[Anonymous No.15067042]

>>15066959
no, it's distracting for me :/
i can do it while writing though

[Anonymous No.15067046]

>>15066987
this, my neighbor is usually loud so i’ll put on headphones and some ambient rain or something. very relaxing to read to

[Anonymous No.15067055]

listening to some dolphy right now. sometimes
jazz, classical, instrumental rock, ambient or techno

[Anonymous No.15067123]

[Anonymous No.15067129]

>>15066959
I listen to jungle while reading Nick Land out loud in a croaky voice

[Anonymous No.15067152]

>>15066959
I did when I was a young teen. Id listen to stuff like Hammerfall and Children of Bodom while reading The Count of Monte Cristo, Stephen King and stuff. Eventually I stopped listening to music while reading, probably because I started reading stuff that required more focus.

[Anonymous No.15067172]

Readign is a solitary, silent experiance for me. Wouldn't be able to concentrate otherwise

[Anonymous No.15067190]

>>15066959
A mix of concertos and sonatas are a nice treat to accompany reading and studying and note taking

[Anonymous No.15067235]

>>15067190
Any recs? Always looking for new sonatas but I love some concertos too

[Anonymous No.15067266]

>>15067129
based

[Anonymous No.15067634]

I regularly listen to Rubycon by Tangerine Dream while reading, doesn't require too much focus but blends out other noises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6XL_IOS3I

[Anonymous No.15067651]

>>15066959
I listen to light stuff like Satie

[Anonymous No.15067671]

>>15067123
>tfw no hi fi bip bops to work to

[Anonymous No.15067721]

>>15066959
Minecraft.

[Anonymous No.15068071]

>>15067055
dolphy absolutely requires your undivided attention, why you do this?

[Anonymous No.15069210]

No, as a musician it is far too distracting. I find myself counting time signatures in my head or thinking about playing the piece myself.
Sometimes I use this 'library ambience' though, which is okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vIQON2fDWM

[Anonymous No.15069276]

Silence or nature sounds

[Anonymous No.15069331]

>>15067634
alot of their albums work just as well

[Anonymous No.15069385]

>>15069210
>Feels the need to brag to online friends that hes a musician
I too am a musician and I always listen to music when I read.

[Anonymous No.15069419]

>>15069385
then you can passively listen to music, something that for example, a studying musician that analyses scores all the time, will find pretty difficult to do.

[Anonymous No.15069425]

Not usually but if there are normies being noisy nearby I will put on some classical music to drown it out. About a year ago the local party normies moved out so I have almost never had to do so since. It was a glorious day.

[Anonymous No.15069442]

>>15066959
Yes. I listen to touhou remixes.

[Anonymous No.15069463]

>>15066959
Whatever I feel like, or if I'm looking for something without vocals, just retrosynth, darkwave, that kind of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk1nnAHI1mI

[Anonymous No.15069484]

Rarely. Generally it's too distracting though I've gotten away with it with more ambient tracks like NIN's later stuff.

[Anonymous No.15069701]

>>15069210
only a low skilled musician would write such a sentence

[Anonymous No.15069717]

I listen to Wagner while reading Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.15069722]

>>15069701
for real. OHHHohhhhoohhh its a minor deminished seventh with the perfect fourth I musssssssst play this~!

[Anonymous No.15069733]

Hard enough to drown out background noise and actually pay attention, whenever people say they read to music I always think they must not read at all

[Anonymous No.15069779]

>>15066959
Nope, too distracting

[Anonymous No.15069876]

>>15066959
No music so I can enjoy the slight sound of the wind and birds chirping outside my window.
If the bastard cunt children are outside with their parents every single cunting day right outside my window due to the quarantine, then i'll usually play

Gas - Pop
Deepchord Presents: Echospace - Liumin
Henry Flynt - You Are My Everlovin'
Silent Hill 2 OST
Tim Hecker's many albums
Phillip Glass - Glassworks
Julius Eastman - Unjust Malaise
Popol Vuh - In the Garden
Global Communication - 76:14
Biosphere - Substrata
Stars of the Lid
Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht
Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays

Really do try to read in silence if you can, it's calming and you do not need another stimulus along with the reading itself.

[Anonymous No.15070104]

>>15066959
Scandroid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvcB3NpCaWQ

[Anonymous No.15070112]

>>15066959
the sound of the cars going back and forth outside my place is enough noise for me.

[Anonymous No.15070172]

>>15066959
My absolute favorite
https://youtu.be/7YJLPeIK8yQ

[Anonymous No.15070857]

what you guy recommend listening while reading about rome?

[Anonymous No.15071350]

Bohren & Der Club of Gore
Its relaxing and pretty unobtrusive, though I have to play it out of speaker since headphones hurt my head after a while.

[Anonymous No.15071426]

>>15068071
t. out there pleb.

he's done a lot of straight ahead records. look at his live albums. and even out there isn't that complex, you pseud

[Anonymous No.15071483]

>>15066959
it has to be metal thats harsh enough that i cant make out the words. mgla is good.

[Anonymous No.15071494]

>>15066959
Sometimes. Mostly, ambient/drone, techno, classical or jazz.

[Anonymous No.15072920]

>>15069701
if you study seriously it is difficult to listen to music passively, unless you're a brainlet ofc

[Anonymous No.15073031]

>>15069385
>implying I consider you retards 'online friends'
>>15069701
t. brainlet

[Anonymous No.15074120]

No
You have to do one or the other it destroys one of the inner voices

[Anonymous No.15074254]

>>15066959
Piano instrumentals and dark ambient.

[Anonymous No.15074273]

if you can't listen to music and read while getting all that you like out of both, you're a brainlet, or autistic, period.

[Anonymous No.15074285]

>>15069876
based tim hecker

>>15071350
sexy

>>15071483
based black metal

[Anonymous No.15074298]

I prefer something a little more high energy like heavy metal. Writing is a calming enough activity so you need to counteract it.

[Anonymous No.15074299]

>>15067030
>he listens to "techno" with a drop

[Anonymous No.15074635]

I try not to, but sometimes I just want to listen to music so I put BGM (mostly from video games). It's music not made to be listened carefully, so it allows you to do something else without being distracted
Or sometimes I just listen to HNW since it helps me focus

>>15066987
>hurr durr white noise isn't music

[Anonymous No.15075825]

>>15074273
It's so cool that you skim here is your reach around bro

[Anonymous No.15076087]

>>15074299
based Detroit techno anon.

[Anonymous No.15076260]

>>15071426
You're doing yourself a disservice by not fully concentrating on the music. I'm pretty familiar with most of his stuff. Even on the straighter records Dolphy himself is blowing some mind bending stuff. It sounds like a nightmare to me, trying to listen to his stuff and read at the same time. Idk maybe it works for you.

[Anonymous No.15077243]

Nature sounds, one of those "focus" playlists, Chopin/classical music.

[Anonymous No.15077468]

>>15074299
unfathomably based above and beyond all. jeff mills is genius.
this shit is a masterpiece and perfect for working out, rather than reading
https://youtu.be/6qqdw_KOeHI

[Anonymous No.15078026]

I'm physically incapable of doing anything that involves thinking if I listen to music.

The only time I can without having no productivity is if i'm doing stuff that requires autopilot mode.

[Anonymous No.15078032]

This on repeat usually
https://youtu.be/ICcK6Li5OfM

[Anonymous No.15078113]

>>15066959
I never listen to music because I like reading outdoors. The sounds of the city or of nature, however loud, don't seem to faze me. Lately I've found that I love to hear a large diesel engine idling nearby as I read. I go to the train station and find the nearest bench to an idling locomotive and sit there to read until that train leaves, then move on to another platform. I glance sideways and see the railway workers looking at me either condescendingly or with a slight unease. They must think I'm either some kind of locomotive pervert or a terrorist -- I do look a bit Arabish -- the book being just a ludicrous disguise.
The one time I heard them snort in amusement was when the driver sounded the horn unexpectedly and I gasped loudly and almost dropped the book but grabbed it with the tip of two fingers and held it upside down for a little while, gazing towards the horizon and catching my breath. He must have done it on purpose. Now I've trained myself to show at most a slight and dignified startle with minimal hand quaking when the sneaky toot comes.

[Anonymous No.15078123]

>>15066959

[Anonymous No.15078125]

>>15078113
Try yelling allahu akbar the next time to get them startled

[Anonymous No.15078134]

>>15066959
I never listen to music because I like reading outdoors. The sounds of the city or of nature, however loud, don't seem to faze me. Lately I've found that I love to hear a large diesel engine idling nearby as I read. I go to the train station and find the nearest bench to an idling locomotive and sit there to read until that train leaves, then move on to another platform. I glance sideways and see the railway workers looking at me either condescendingly or with a slight unease. They must think I'm either some kind of locomotive pervert or a terrorist -- I do look a bit Arabish -- the book being just a ludicrous disguise.
The one time I heard them snort in amusement was when the driver sounded the horn unexpectedly and I gasped loudly and almost dropped the book but grabbed it with the tip of two fingers and held it upside down for a little while, gazing towards the horizon and catching my breath. He must have done it on purpose. Now I've trained myself to show at most a slight and dignified startle with minimal hand quaking when the sneaky toot comes.

[Anonymous No.15078151]

I don't like music. I don't understand how can anyone enjoy music on the level more focused than that of a background noise, actively seek out albums, follow the artists and most importantly, pay real money to see them perform their noisemaking on stage. It's an entirely alien activity to me.

[Anonymous No.15078169]

>>15078134
Try yelling allahu akbar the next time to get them startled

[Anonymous No.15078425]

>>15066959
persian folk music

[Anonymous No.15078445]

>>15078151
Anon I think ur prob autistic. If you have never felt emotion from music I think that's a dead giveaway.

[Anonymous No.15078830]

>>15076260
>do you listen to dolphy with your eyes open? you're doing a disservice to the music by not fully concentrating on the music? do you listen to dolphy with your nose not taped shut? what a pleb you are for not fully concentrating on his music. do you tap your feet? omg pleb for moving to the music, you need to be fully still to concentrate. stop it right now.
yea I'm good

[Anonymous No.15078965]

>>15078830
He's not implying that you need to stay still you fucking idiot. You have admitted that you simply ignore parts of music. It's the same idea of just listening to the singer
>"fuck all that other shit, I'm good"
gj retard, you're not concentrating as much as you could on either

[Anonymous No.15078975]

I solely listen to very loud future funk while studying post modernism and Christian theology.

[Anonymous No.15078990]

>>15066987
This

[Anonymous No.15079010]

>>15078965
where did I admit I'm ignoring parts of the music? if you're such a midwit you can't listen to jazz and read a book, i'm sorry but that's on you, honey.

[Anonymous No.15079036]

>>15079010
You're drowing out a part and diverting attention. You aren't getting the entire picture, you are essentially skimming. It's pointless, mindless, passive eating

[Anonymous No.15079047]

>>15079010
Not him but holy fuck you reached top pseudery levels. Do you also drink brandy while doing those? Do you smoke regular cigars or only the ones with veins? Do you have a fireplace? A monocle?

[Anonymous No.15079049]

>>15079036
Drowning