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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."
For anyone that wants to know what the music sounds like; it is conventional instrumental ambient music with a nice ensemble of guitar/bass/piano(synth)/drums. It sounds pretty relaxing, but it doesn't appear to be doing anything unusual like brain wave synced synthesiser swirls and crashing waves. Although some of the percussion is reminiscent of nature.
I really like the electric guitar and synth tones he uses. Bad guitar tone and cheap sounding synths are two of my pet hates - but this music delivers quality tone, so nothing to complain about.
Worth a listen for anyone interested.
One's favorite music is already acceptable background music for coding by?
I don't need coder's muzak, i need something I already know by heart and like to occupy that part of my brain while i do other things. That's why i use my favorite music and not a radio, not pandora, nor anything else. I use my own music I have grown to love over the years, that I know fits my style or work.
Coder's Muzak. Expect it in corporate dungeons soon to drive you to the point of severe annoyance and the sighting of headphones/earbuds as far as the eye can see.
I've taken to coding with Japanese music. I don't have a clue what they're singing, so they don't interfere with the language processing in my brain.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Why not just listen to video game music? Seems like it was made for the same purpose. When I am coding, listening to video game music doesn't distract my brain, energizes me, and makes what I am doing feel really important. It's awesome.
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
For me it just has to be familiar. It can have lyrics, crazy guitar and drum solos, loud screaming, whatever, as long as I've heard it a few dozen times it fades into the background for me.
Personally I tend to like melodic rock (classic, progressive, even some of the lighter metal) when coding. Pink Floyd, the more ballad-y stuff from GnR, Pearl Jam, Red Rider, hell even Metallica (yeah yeah, shuddup).
Also WTF is up with the layout changes on slashdot. They couldn't get people to swallow beta, so now they are fucking up the non-beta site?
Have you listened to their new album, Endless River? It's almost all instrumental and has many of the same riffs from Division Bell. It's familiar enough to sound great, but new enough that it's novel. If you listen to Wish You Were Here while coding, I suspect you'll really enjoy this one as well.
You can find awesome 100% FREE, community-supported ambient tracks for coding, writing and tabletop gaming here: http://tabletopaudio.com/