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I've been reading a lot of books lately and find that listening to music can make the experience more enjoyable and enhance my concentration.
Not all music is fit for this purpose though. For me at least, the music must not contain any lyrics or vocals, as I find this distracting.
The music itself must not be too distracting. So far I've found music that is at a slower, relaxed tempo to be most appropriate. I usually listen to it at a slightly lower volume than I usually would.
The qualities I seek for this purpose are vastly different, perhaps even diametrically opposed, to the kind of music I would consider to be good music to exercise to (perhaps there's potential for another thread there).
So this disqualifies a lot of music I regularly listen to, but thankfully I'm left with quite a lot of options.
So far I've had a lot of luck with Drone/Doom music. Particularly Earth, Sunn O))) and certain Boris albums. The music is non-obtrusive, relaxing, atmospheric, the kind of stuff you can just zone out to.
I'm sure there are a lot more bands and albums in the Drone genre that would be perfect for background ambience whilst reading.
Although I haven't gotten around to reading to them yet, I imagine other genres that would be perfect for this are dark ambient, instrumental post rock and ambient electronic.
So my request of you, my fellow Kiwi music lovers, is to post music you use as background music when you're getting stuff done that requires some degree of concentration (reading, drawing, studying, etc) or simply music you think would be fit for that purpose. Thank you for your time.
This Boris/Merzbow collaboration is a great example.
Then there's the classics.
Not all music is fit for this purpose though. For me at least, the music must not contain any lyrics or vocals, as I find this distracting.
The music itself must not be too distracting. So far I've found music that is at a slower, relaxed tempo to be most appropriate. I usually listen to it at a slightly lower volume than I usually would.
The qualities I seek for this purpose are vastly different, perhaps even diametrically opposed, to the kind of music I would consider to be good music to exercise to (perhaps there's potential for another thread there).
So this disqualifies a lot of music I regularly listen to, but thankfully I'm left with quite a lot of options.
So far I've had a lot of luck with Drone/Doom music. Particularly Earth, Sunn O))) and certain Boris albums. The music is non-obtrusive, relaxing, atmospheric, the kind of stuff you can just zone out to.
I'm sure there are a lot more bands and albums in the Drone genre that would be perfect for background ambience whilst reading.
Although I haven't gotten around to reading to them yet, I imagine other genres that would be perfect for this are dark ambient, instrumental post rock and ambient electronic.
So my request of you, my fellow Kiwi music lovers, is to post music you use as background music when you're getting stuff done that requires some degree of concentration (reading, drawing, studying, etc) or simply music you think would be fit for that purpose. Thank you for your time.
This Boris/Merzbow collaboration is a great example.
Then there's the classics.
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