/lit/ - Literature

>>17231482
Yeah

no. I can't have any distractions at all

>>17231482
sometimes, ambient usually

>>17231482
No, althought I went no-music a long time ago

current song: marquee moon - television
current book: jg ballard - crash

>>17231482
When I was trying to read a book a week, I would sometimes play pink noise in my headphones in order to drown out distraction and focus.

>>17231482
unironically black metal when reading any non-fiction and classical when reading fantasy

>>17231589
why?

>>17231482
no

>>17231482
I listen to documentaries
https://ugetube.com/@bodhi_mantra?page=play-lists

YW

>>17231616
why

>>17231616
not him, but music is trash once you go from

[whatever you think is a music snob] -> traditional forms of music that inspired that music -> classical music -> 'higher' forms of pop music along with 20th century classical and revisiting albums with this perspective -> trap music only -> nostalgia for the original music you loved -> one minor spark of being interested in new music again

it's all pretty much over.

>>17231916
oops, meant to respond to >>17231623

>>17231579
me too. got any recs, mon ami?

>>17231916
You never even had a jazz phase but music is over for you?

>>17232095
jazz is honestly one of the few genres to keep me interested if i hear a song by chance. but it doesn't lead to me listening to it much after the fact like i did when i had more of a passion

>>17231916
you like Jute Gyte?

>>17231979
sure fren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mVds-cztA4
my go to lately, so minimal its almost white noise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5l_OYE4ul4&l
prettier piece with a bit more going on
additionally: aphex twin - rhubarb, aphex twin - lichen, silent hill 2 ost (heres a nice mix of the more pared down tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpPo95v3cNo))
hope u like some :D

>>17231916
lol checkout this faggot who's never been high

>>17231482
Only on the bus.

>>17231482
I listen to music only when I'm reading on a bus

No

>>17231482
I don't like to listen to music while doing most things, as the music is usually more entertaining and I end up getting distracted.

>>17231916
are you perhaps by any chance 15?

>>17231482
Back when I cared more about music I listened while reading every single time. Nowadays I just listen to Bob Dylan on repeat so that isn't really good reading music. I might occasionally chuck on Steve Reich or Harold Budd while reading but usually not.

>>17231979
Check out Chihei Hatakeyama for something really subtle.
The real legend in the ambient world is Harold Budd, though, Abandoned Cities and The White Arcades are wonderful albums.
And Brian Eno’s ambient works if you don’t know those already.
Richard Pinhas has some beautiful electronic/guitar loop-based albums, some of which are mostly ambient stuff. Check out Iceland first.

>>17231916
>trap music only
ngmi

imagine needing constant external stimulation in order to read effectively. true imageboard brain

>>17231482
lofi and dub techno youtube streams tbqh

I listen to smoothed brown noise with headphones when my neighbors are being loud
>tfw rent cuck

i listen to noise

Mostly jazz and noise and I'll always keep it to a minimum

>>17231482
I'm listening throughout the entire r/hiphopcirclejerk guide chart out of spite

either :
- very light classical pieces like satie/debussy or even low energy chopin/vivaldi pieces
- geytkeypur ambient loops (would highly recommend)
- ambient fireplace/blizzard/snowstorm sounds

>>17231482
i'm not a troglodyte

- very light classical pieces like satie/debussy or even low energy chopin/vivaldi
- geytkeypur ambient loops (would highly recommend)
- ambient fireplace/blizzard/snowstorm sounds

>>17235472
did you just remove the word pieces

>>17235489
im very tired

>>17234518
>Brian Eno ambient
based beyond belief

no, just ambience. usually campfire sounds or rain sounds

>>17231482
I listen to audiobooks while reading music.

skyrim atmospheres w added sound

>>17234555
some of us have tinnitus, retard

>>17236980
>tinnitus
illusion. transcend the psychological loops that trap you in self-torture and lies.

>>17236995
Holy shit, it just stopped. Thank you anon

>>17231482
Generally something related to whatever I'm reading.

I read Dune recently so I was listening to persian music.

Now I read SPQR and I listen to whatever "roman music" playlist you find on spotify.

>>17234518
rip to the boy harold

>>17237021
no worries. here every day.

Been reading LOTR. This has been my go to track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7BCa9Y8Of8

>>17234441
What order should I read the books?

>>17231482
only ambiance, anything else is too distracting. But finding the right ambiance can be hard too, you dont want something too loud or monolithic.
recently I've actually been listening to some ambiance from the game Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, specifically the ambiance that plays in Strauss's Chantry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBjaC1ivdZQ&t
gets me in the mood for some reading next to a fireplace in the dead of night.

>>17231979
my favourite is Steve Roach, his music has a very spiritual quality, more than most ambient artists I would say. and he's very prolific, he's got dozens of albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAQhuetZdhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Anv3yiB_nA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9IpgkyGH48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUF2kOk7Mao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv931pO4Bco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khLK_qOCVuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heE2ThkxjI

>>17238326
based, love listening to roach & reading murakami

>>17231482
occasonally yeah I like to listen to some slow/quiet classical or jazz if I'm reading

>>17231916
You need to be 18+ to post here

>>17238956
i'm 32 and i know more about music than you'll ever dream of

>>17238972
name ONE (1) music.

>>17231482
no can't focus.

>>17238972
>32
I could kill you with my bare hands you crunchy old faggot.

>>17231616
heckin' metalerino!!!!

>>17239086
of all the gay shit in that post, black metal might be the least gay

>>17231482
I listen to contemporary classical music with lots of cello and piano. I can't listen to anything with lyrics.

I also use rain sounds for max comfy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZORUO5vYvk&t=4274s
because of my EEEEEEE tinnitus

>>17235472
>geytkeypur ambient loops
Based

>>17239106
black metal is the gayest genre though

I listen to four seasons or any of Beethoven's

Slow, instrumental jazz. I prefer birds singing or water flowing when possible.

>>17231482
There is something almost always playing in my head in one degree of vividness or other, so it's unavoidable in that mode, but never otherwise since in the process of taking in music far too much of my attention & focus is commanded by it. This leads to the 2nd reason I set it aside while reading: The correspondence between cognitive music and tone or mood--from the sonority of the phrasing to the place, circumstance, and atmosphere summoned by the imagery--is usually best taken as a separate whole, to be immersed in as a complete or self-sufficient experience--crucial when it's of literary richness, since then I can only wrap my head around what I enter from a place of quiet tranquility, especially as a condition of life. Between good writing and the reader is assumed an amiable, and deeply abiding, trust in the process of conjuration or conveying, which is a close kin of self-trust. For instance, insofar as my senses or imagination are misleading, tricky, overbearing, I'm not in the habit of unreliably narrating facts about their unreliability, either to myself or others, and leave it at that. Likewise, while writing I often take the opposite view when it comes to music, and freely register whatever mental flights & memories are immediately stirred while listening, to make a secondary music out of it, editing only for its fidelity to the altered condition of mind.
>>17238326
World's Edge is one a friend found good for drawing after I recommended it to him, an odd choice since its almost an opposite to his dry, flat, satirical style. Some of Jonn Serrie's stratospherically serene pieces make my desert island list, and remind me of how Lucretius characterized the gods and the setting that suited them:
All their wants are supplied by nature
And nothing at any time cankers their peace of mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX9BmYX_ePs&list=RDsX9BmYX_ePs&index=1