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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."
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.
Step 1: remove lyrics.
Beyond that, it'd be pretty easy.
So basically get a CD with relaxing lift music on it and just put a "Music for Programmers" label on it and your done.
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 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.
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.
Bruce F. Webster (brucefwebster.com)
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.
My fave is Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here – on infinite repeat.
Its ebb and flow, and my knowing it by heart, together synch-up with the mental cycles of idea and follow-through, as the hours pass by. It's just as useful for writing.
and listened to the samples. All I can say ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz.
just a ghost in the machine.
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
Thank you Dave Raggett
Hmm, I've been trying some Bach lately but I'm generally find it to be too sad.
What were you listening to? Come, Sweet Death?
It would take 70 years for someone to copy all of the music Bach wrote. There are plenty of upbeat Bach pieces to chose from.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Because video game music is unlistenable drek that is pumped out by less-than-talented musicians?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Learned to really concentrate while serving on a submarine in the USN - to the "music" of fans and humming power supplies... so, for heavy brainwork at the computer all I need is the noise of the computer. Music just pulls me out of what I'm doing.
Oddly enough, the opposite is true when I'm working out in my woodshop, there I like to have music.
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