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Musician Releases Album of Music To Code By

Posted by samzenpus on from the brian-eno dept.

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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  1. That's not exactly new by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't that what ambient electronica for the last twenty years has basically been? Labels like Ultimae Records has been releasing that kind of music forever. Nothing terribly new here.

    1. Re:That's not exactly new by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yep. This just screams publicity stunt and at $20 it's a fucking rip-off.

      So, no thanks Carl-boy, I already have my collection of ambient, downtempo, jazz noir and classical to do my work with.

    2. Re:That's not exactly new by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Surely I can't be the only one who finds this kind of "easy listening muzak" incredibly irritating. It sounds annoyingly bland and emotionless to me.
      Music tastes are subjective and change with the mood. There is no singular type music that'll work for more than a small fraction of all programmers.

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  2. No lyrics. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Step 1: remove lyrics.

    Beyond that, it'd be pretty easy.

  3. Bad marketing by De_Boswachter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been clicking around to find a sample, and, maybe it's just me, but I didn't find any. I might buy the album if there were previews that I could listen to, but if it takes longer that 5 minutes to successfully find any, it's 100% surely not going to happen.