Question with the readers: do you work in music? (motivation, concentration, environment, MP3)

Question with the readers: do you work in music?

Mar 28, 2008 productivity

We spoke yesterday about the ChatterBlocker software, which makes it possible to create an sound environment to be unaware of the undesirable discussions of the colleagues. I would like now that one speaks a little music, as a vector supporting the motivation and the concentration.

Personally, I adore to work in music. It is a means of associating work with the pleasure of listening and thus of making a kind of amalgam between the 2. In particular when one is tired a little, that makes it possible to stimulate the spirit and to remain waked up and dynamic. There is thus easier to remain a long time concentrated on its task.

I recognize on the other hand that the music can have a disturbing effect. And I would say that the more aggressive the music is, the more it should have been listened to a long time before being able to work above. After this period of adaptation, our brain can then make abstraction easily of it when one must concentrate on a difficult task. Personally, it arrives to me thus sometimes of zapper it quasi totality of an album because I was entirely absorbed by my work.

Of course, in certain situations where the problem is really complex, it can be good to work in total silence, because the music would frustrate more than another thing. But most of the time, I manage to work more effectively with music rather than without.

I generally draw the music which I listen to in my collection of albums in MP3 of which here some pearls:

Old New

Enigma - III - 1996

Trip-Hop

Bjork - Vespertine - 2001
Alpha - As From Heaven - 1997
Emiliana Torrini - Coils in the Time Science off - 1999
Jay-Jay Johansson - Antenna - 2002
Mono - Formica Blues - 1997
Oi Va Voi - Laughter Through Tears - 2003
Amon Tobin - Supermodified - 2000

Electro-pop

Dido - No angel - 1999
Jem - Finally woken - 2004

French song

Dominique has - New Memory - 1995
Myl�ne Farmer - Anamorphos�e - 1995

Instrumental

Yann Tiersen - the Headlight - 1998

Bands its original

Danny Elfman - Batman - 1989
Goran Bregovic - Arizona Dream - 1999
Burkhard Dallwitz - The Truman Show - 2001
The Dust Brothers - Fight Club - 1999
Exxos - Spice Operated

PopRock

Jeff Buckley - Grace - 1994
Cake - Fashion Nugget - 1996

Traditional

Antonio Vivaldi - 4 seasons
Franz Schubert - Quintet, the trout

Instrumental Hip-Hop

Rjd2 - Dead Ringer - 2002

Hip-Hop

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Off Lauryn Hill - 1998

[note: if you buy one of these albums, I will touch a small commission of 5% which you would in any event have regulated while buying directly, it should be taken as a means of helping me to always bring best the contained possible one to you]

And you, do you work in music? Which style of music listen? Does Y' have albums which you can listen to, like me, of the hundreds of times without you to weary?

I await your answers in the comments

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9 comments

agatzebluz said,

Wrote one March 29,2008 @ 1:17

And well precisely the Grace of Jeff Buckley, I is never wearied any. To work it is true that it is well.
Jack Johnson also are well for the job.
Jeremy said,

Wrote one March 29,2008 @ 10:16

Hello,

Loreena McKennitt and my concentration pass to 200%

Good courage, in music
Julien said,

Wrote one March 29,2008 @ 15:12

Perso I work always in music, but I am not on Ca is an good idea. My work being especially limited to the maths and physics, I have little evil to me concentrated with rock' roll in the ears.

Finally I think that there is worse: radio broadcasts. It very often sometimes happens to me to listen to France Info (one of the rare radios of which I support the tone). And good the bah it is impossible to work.
Laurent Brixius said,

Wrote one March 29,2008 @ 16:28

I often work in music but the style depends on the type of work, my mood, my concentration or my state of tiredness.

After one night of work, to finish an asking project of the artistic creativity, I listen to especially Celtic music: DaN Ar Braz & the Heritage of the Celts, Urban Trad, Afro Celt Sound System it is instigating! Or then a best off of Johnny Clegg well rate/rhythm.
Didier Bretin said,

Wrote one March 30,2008 @ 17:06

For my part the music helps me only if it is completely instrumental. As soon as there is a voice, and even more with one French vote, that disturbs me completely. From where my preference for the purely instrumental BO or groups. The classical music is also very well. To the house I connect myself on two radios: rivendell (http://www.radiorivendell.com/) and sleepbot (http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/broadcast/). But I note nevertheless that does not go all the time. A calm environment and in which there is no noise is also a productive environment. It seems to me, in any case for me, which there is not rules the strict ones but that depends on my frame of mind.

From where the question that I am often posed: how to be able to concentrate me on what I am making?
burningHat said,

Wrote one March 30,2008 @ 18:00

that arrives to me, that often depends I forget to put the basic ambience makes of it but I can work very well in music (ptet that to have been musician during years, that helps to be able switcher very easily its brain) And if it is the case, I do not make abstraction of it, on the contrary, the sounds and the rates/rhythms will guide my thoughts and rythmer the reflexion, in short to stimulate me what!

There immediately I am on the last album of G3 but I have hundreds of albums which I venerate and can listen without never wearying me
lafber said,

Wrote one April 3,2008 @ 22:57

I work more and more in music.

In fact I was anti-music with the job very a long time. I always found that made large wanker not serious the ear-phones.

And then I discovered that makes some by listening to the musics which are well my concentration was boost�e with death. Personally a good music of job it is the instrumental one and ESPECIALLY NOT WORDS.

My signal of the moment is:

n�1 the last Beasties Servant boys The Mix Up full instrumental. A slaughter.

n� 2 Techno Armin Van Buuren 10 years, especially after the meal for a boost at the time of the change of course

n�3 Nine Inch Nails Ghost sold directly on line for 5$ 36 pieces.

and then all film Original soundtracks (Kingdom off Heaven, Pirates of the Caribbean etc).

I am thus completely converted with the music with the job, but good it is necessary really to choose, if I put Led Zep it is finished for me. On the other hand instrumental a little a punchy and it is the top of the productivity.
Christophe Deschamps said,

Wrote one April 9,2008 @ 0:32

Hello,

I always work in music and besides I very recently decided to divide what I listen to on my blog with excellent the widget of Last.fm.
When I work my tastes go towards the lounge music whose softness does not hang too the spirit and allows me to preserve a good concentration. I listen to also cool jazz (kind Kind off Blue of Miles Davis) as well as the traditional one, primarily of the parts for piano of Mozart and Chopin. Ah yes I forgot, a sometimes little old New with Enya or Lorenna McKennit and also the BO (Mancini, Barry, Herrmann, Shore, Schifrin and less Morricone because its musics are faggots of signs hookers).
I pick and discover much new things (for me) in Deezer, it is the case of the Cocoon group which I appreciated well
Here.
Oelita said,

Wrote one April 17,2008 @ 22:59

I work better in music. No French words, but English passes very well.
Generally, it is pop-rock'n'roll style Placebo or Starsailor. Software but rate/rhythm. On the one hand, that insulates to me and helps me to concentrate me. In addition, that instigates me and rate/rhythm gives me which prevents me from leaving in daydreams.
On the other hand, if I need + for creativity, I pass then to cooler music, style Elysian Fieds or Nathalie Merchant, more favourable with the divagations of the spirit