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Music to write essays to?
With uni deadlines fast approaching, it's getting around that time again when I actually have to write essays and as silence is boring, can people recommend me some music to write essays to?
With uni deadlines fast approaching, it's getting around that time again when I actually have to write essays and as silence is boring, can people recommend me some music to write essays to?
shoegaze
something dreamy that i won't necessarily focus on too much. when i was writing my 15-page literary critique paper, i listened to a lot of the smiths. however, i still found myself spacing out every once and again and singing along!
Soundtracks
I went onto Spotify and listened to some movie soundtracks which really helped me focus whilst I was doing my essays. I find the "American Beauty" and "The Dark Knight" soundtracks really good to work to but I suppose that's just personal preference.
Good call man
Imma stick on some Ennio Morricone.
As my techno-head friend says:
"It's always good to work to a 4/4 beat." Trentemoller's 'The Last Resort' got me through my essays over xmas.
definitely
burning through maths work at the moment with a steady diet of pantha du prince, gui boratto, the field, popof, martyn and various other minimal/techno mixes. anything minimal and slow building works really well, i tend to find i appreciate it more than listening to that kind of stuff in any other setting
Detektivbyrån!
they're swedish and make lovely happy instrumental music that's really nice to work to. they're on spotify too!
Eluvium
Goldmund
Max Richter
Erik Satie
Library Tapes
add to that
Peter Broderick
Message To Bears
Olafur Arnalds
anything you're really really familiar with
it doesn't matter if it's loud and heavy or ambient, you have to be able to faze it out of your concentration and thats best done with stuff you've known for yonks.
if everyone here said go buy x cd it's perfect to revise to, you'd be too busy listening to all the new sounds on the cd you'd not heard before.
^This
Is exactly right. Anything that just drifts through the consciousness. For me Ok Computer was a very successful essay writing album. Some drum and bass mixes that I had at the time were good too because we used to listen to them repeatedly at parties. Never hip-hop though. Too many frantic words coming at you.
i find anything slow works
drone/doom records...
i did the majority of my photography finals listening to F#A#Infinity by Godspeed...Sunn O))) records are good too...nothing too exciting haha
I write well to hardcore
Cruel Hand, This Is Hell, Bane etc.
well...
puck 1 list, track or style! check out the website with a plenty of playlists with different styles, length for writing!
http://c-h-i-ll.com/writing/
p.s. other categories might work as well -_-
Arvo Part
Steve Reich
William Basinski
Essential essay-writing listening for me was usually
Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada & DJ Shadow.
Do Make Say Think
I've done a series of playlists that are perfect for this
Music for Office Workers #1 is a good place to start http://open.spotify.com/user/seaninsound/playlist/1YC0a9aoJ159DlU9pWvJPo
This is really great, thanks