Musician Releases Album of Music To Code By

itwbennett writes Music and programming go hand-in-keyboard. And now programmer/musician Carl Franklin has released an album of music he wrote specifically for use as background music when writing software. "The biggest challenge was dialing back my instinct to make real music," Franklin told ITworld's Phil Johnson. "This had to fade into the background. It couldn't distract the listener, but it couldn't be boring either. That was a particular challenge that I think most musicians would have found maddening."

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Re:Bad marketing

[Anonymous Coward]

There's 3, on his website - http://mtcb.pwop.com/ - under the heading "Samples" no less...

I have some standard playlists for coding, writing

[bfwebster]

My best coding/writing playlist is...the entire set of Moody Blues albums, in chronological order. (I've been listening to them for nearly 50 years. Crap I'm old.) The albums have to play in correct order, and the cuts on each album have to play in standard order. It just pretty much becomes a musical cocoon. I've found that if I'm avoiding doing some necessary writing or coding, I can put the playlist on, and I start working almost immediately.

I do much the same thing with the collected Star Wars soundtracks (played in film sequence, i.e., Eps I through VI; and the soundtracks for the prequels are much better than the movies themselves) and the three LOTR soundtracks (again, played in film sequence).

If I'm getting sleepy, I'll put on "Wireless Barenaked Giants", a playlist containing all my Thomas Dolby, Barenaked Ladies, and TMBG songs, played on shuffle.

Ambient electronic would probably put me to sleep.

on hold with tech support

[globaljustin]

here is the link with samples (named after colors a bit down the page): http://mtcb.pwop.com/

it's basically music similar to what you'd hear in an elevator or while on hold with tech support

i encourage everyone to listen and tell me what you think...if you like it, buy it...this is one man's (correct) opinion

Re:That's not exactly new

[ClickOnThis]

No demo available even? You just pay $20 and get ripped off or don't? hah!

Carl Franklin's website has some ~30s samples of each track.

Re:No lyrics.

[mwvdlee]

Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Keep repeating! Remember, your mind does not control you.

Being aware of things means you are operating on a conscious level. If you're "in the zone", you are operating on a subconscious level. All your conscious thoughts are directed towards a singular task. Spotting whether you're "in the zone" is not part of that singular task, therefore you will not notice it until you come back out of it. If you are noticing it, part of your brain must still not be focused on the singular task, therefore you are not completely "in the zone".

The very act of becoming aware of being "in the zone" triggers your brain into no longer being "in the zone".