Entertainment & Music Study Music

[J_Moore]

Instrumental for sure. Any kind. a busy melody doesn't throw me off, but vocals do.

If the work I am doing is mindless, then anything goes.

 

[nicky]

Classical music, like derr.

At the moment i choose chopin.

Seriously though, classical music creates waves in your brain conducive to absorbing information.

 

[J_Moore]

I'm pretty sure that is a spurious pseudo-scientific myth pushed by Big Classical to try and drive Naxos album sales.

 

[Igloo]

When I was in year 12 and studying I used to listen to the Star Wars Imperial March. It was pretty great.

 

[checkraiseulite]

 

[radiojake]

bit repetitive... but is doing the trick...

 

[moses]

Arnold Scoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw

 

[moses]

Classical music, like derr.

At the moment i choose chopin.

Seriously though, classical music creates waves in your brain conducive to absorbing information.

Some does, I'm not sure how much information one would absorb listening to Wagner

 

[kickazz]

Not sure how sound the studies were, but there have been several that have come up with Baroque musice as the best to study to.

To you and I, that means the period just before Classical, composers like Bach, Vivaldi et al.

In general I find/found any instrumental music that you are not particulary familiar with to be pretty good.

 

[nicky]

Here's an interesting podcast i listened to yesterday about a piece of music and how it essentially ate the brain of the composer and an artist who tried painting it....

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/jun/18/unraveling-bolero/

In this podcast, a story about obsession, creativity, and a strange symmetry between a biologist and a composer that revolves around one famously repetitive piece of music.
Anne Adams was a brilliant biologist. But when her son Alex was in a bad car accident, she decided to stay home to help him recover. And then, rather suddenly, she decided to quit science altogether and become a full-time artist. After that, her husband Robert Adams tells us, she just painted and painted and painted. First houses and buildings, then a series of paintings involving strawberries, and then ... "Bolero."
At some point, Anne became obsessed with Maurice Ravel's famous composition and decided to put an elaborate visual rendition of the song to canvas. She called it "Unraveling Bolero." But at the time, she had no idea that both she and Ravel would themselves unravel shortly after their experiences with this odd piece of music. Arbie Orenstein tells Jad what happened to Ravel after he wrote "Bolero," and neurologist Bruce Miller and Jonah Lehrer helps us understand how, for both Anne and Ravel, "Bolero" might have been the first symptom of a deadly disease.

This is the very famous piece of music it references (so perhaps don't listen to this for study music )



Here is the painting

 

[moses]

Here's an interesting podcast i listened to yesterday about a piece of music and how it essentially ate the brain of the composer and an artist who tried painting....

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/jun/18/unraveling-bolero/

In this podcast, a story about obsession, creativity, and a strange symmetry between a biologist and a composer that revolves around one famously repetitive piece of music.
Anne Adams was a brilliant biologist. But when her son Alex was in a bad car accident, she decided to stay home to help him recover. And then, rather suddenly, she decided to quit science altogether and become a full-time artist. After that, her husband Robert Adams tells us, she just painted and painted and painted. First houses and buildings, then a series of paintings involving strawberries, and then ... "Bolero."
At some point, Anne became obsessed with Maurice Ravel's famous composition and decided to put an elaborate visual rendition of the song to canvas. She called it "Unraveling Bolero." But at the time, she had no idea that both she and Ravel would themselves unravel shortly after their experiences with this odd piece of music. Arbie Orenstein tells Jad what happened to Ravel after he wrote "Bolero," and neurologist Bruce Miller and Jonah Lehrer helps us understand how, for both Anne and Ravel, "Bolero" might have been the first symptom of a deadly disease.

This is the very famous piece of music it references (so perhaps don't listen to this for study music )

The Trombone solo in Bolero has been known to make some lead trombinists in orchestras to take stress leave.

 

[nicky]

The Trombone solo in Bolero has been known to make some lead trombinists in orchestras to take stress leave.

Fascinating isn't it?

 

[moses]

Fascinating isn't it?

Bolero or the solo?

 

[nicky]

The effect the music has on some people.

Did you listen to the podcast?

 

[ajdude]

scale the summit's the collective album works well for me

 

[JHF1870]

Any recommendations? What do you listen to when you're trying to focus?

I don't really like listening to music with a lot of lyrics to it when I'm trying to study. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

It changes and depends on my mood.

If I'm finding it hard to concentrate, particularly when doing math, I listen to static.
otherwise I listen to m83 and movie soundtracks. There are times where one style works and the other doesn't. I find sometimes music with too much emotion, can be distracting, and is why I resort to static, you forget its even there. 20minutes in you're like wow, did I get that much done.

 

[Black Diamond]

I don't listen to music when I study anymore, but I used to like the Doors back in year 12. Not too heavy and not too light; a good balance of sounds.

 

[radiojake]

I don't listen to music when I study anymore, but I used to like the Doors back in year 12. Not too heavy and not too light; a good balance of sounds.

It totally sounds cliche, but The Doors always make me want to roll a joint -

The two or three times where smoking a joint has helped me study (normally when reading otherwise difficult philosophical and abstract theories and such) has been used by myself way too often as a good excuse to roll a joint when I should be writing assignments... these couple of 'good study periods while high' have been greatly outweighed by the times I have gotten high and then got absolutely no work done. Yet, I continue to remind myself of those couple of beneficial times!

 

[nicky]

There's just no way pot is going to help someone understand philosophy better. It would have the opposite effect. People who believe pot makes them better philosophers are deluding themselves..

 

[Marlowe]

I've had good luck with electro, and conversely anything with an acoustic guitar.

This guy has done some pretty amazing covers.

 

[IAMJUNGLEMUFFIN]

Get some meditation/zen music, drowns out the noise, but no lyrics/noticeable stuff to take your attention away from reading etc.

 

[Jackfrost]

Pearl Jam or something similar

 

[Dan3490]

Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Portishead, etc.

 

[policegetthatman]

Into the Wild soundtrack and score.

Try trance music as well. Can't go wrong with Armin van buuren.