On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Scott McDaniel sc...@scottopic.comwrote:
Not to be contrary, but I consider music essential to my process.
There are times for silence and office buzz, but really now...I know how I
work.
Weedling through wireframes of familiar sorts, documenting, sketching,
I guess the music I listen to depends upon what I'm doing. If I'm
trying to learn a difficult concept or analyse data, I prefer
silence. If it's more the artistic side of things (the creation
part), I like to listen to something a bit arty like Talk Talk
(Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock or Mark
I dont listen to music either while working :P
Silence is the best meditation :)
of course I do put on my headphone just to avoid some useless
discussions happening near me (so people will think I am busy
listening to something and bitch about others assuming I cant hear
them) lol
-- sajid
On
Mayur Karnik wrote:
Adrian's comments are noteworthy... I was just thinking the other day how
workplace environments have changed over the last decade. As 'open offices'
and laptop / docking cultures manifest (now it seems, just about
everywhere), there is an increasing clamour for private
On Feb 28, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Pietro Desiato wrote:
What kind of music do you listen (when you can) while brainstorming,
analysing, designing interactions?
Are there any songs that would make our design flow better?
Blue Man Group
Patsy Cline
What more do you need?
-- Jim
...I guess I'm little slow on the draw for this one.
Since I dj on the side, I generally listen to my own mixes:
http://www.recombinantstudios.com/dj/mixes.html
The mixes are mostly minimal/tech-house, though I do have some retro-ish
mixes with 80's tracks too in the archives (can't get
Hey Evan:
I DJ as well. Same type of sound. Will have to listen to your mixes.
I've been listening on iTunes to the Electronica and Dance radio stations,
as of late. Once is a while, I'll pull up Last.fm.
Tony
On 3/10/09 12:02 PM, Evan K. Stone evan.st...@dragnetsolutions.com
wrote:
...I
Since this thread is still running, let's add my brick (in the wall ?):
Trip-hop / downtempo / n ambiant :
Especially ez3kiel, The Potomac Accord, Yann Tiersen, Tara King Theory,
DAAU,
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Pietro Desiato pietro.desi...@gmail.comwrote:
What kind of music do you
FUN!
For design work, Pandora.com. You can create your own radio station.
I just created a Timo Maas station and everything else, as they say,
was history.
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SOMA FM - Secret Agent
Great stimuli
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Anybody out there not listen to anything?
(coz that's what I do :-)
I actually have a 1 minute white noise track that I found via Wikipedia
a year or two ago. I loop it and it drowns out the chatter in my open
concept office.
Other times, when it's completely quiet, I'll go with nothing.
On 4 Mar 2009, at 15:38, Meredith Noble wrote:
[snip]
Adrian, you mentioned you'd be scared about programmers listening to
music -- I find that amazing!
[snip]
Headphones - not music (at least - that's what I meant to say :-)
A room full of people wearing headphones is probably a bad
I liked Damon's points. I work in a cubicle environment where aural
interrupts are frequent and there's nothing like white noise. So
something is required. I wear headphones and often fill them with
music. I rarely choose specific music, preferring streaming radio for
most of the time:
Damon, the four guidelines you posted make perfect sense, at least
from personal experience. When I'm coding/working I always tend to
listen to relatively-mellow, preferably instrumental music that I
know. I always save anything new or avante garde for the comfort of
my own home.
Does anything
Adrian's comments are noteworthy... I was just thinking the other day how
workplace environments have changed over the last decade. As 'open offices'
and laptop / docking cultures manifest (now it seems, just about
everywhere), there is an increasing clamour for private space. Sony
Walkman's
Lots of Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You, Caspian, Mogwai,
Kammerflimmer Kollektief. Also, fair amount of Drive-By Truckers, The Hold
Steady, and Lucero...
kyle
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Pietro Desiato
pietro.desi...@gmail.comwrote:
What kind of music do you listen (when you
Musak used to (they may still) offer a service that pumped white noise into
the office rendering the open office concept much quieter. Basically it
served to kill voices. You had to walk over and have conversations within a
cube. There was also a noise curtain under development at one point. You
going to attempt to get in the zone.
So interesting.
Meredith
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To: Meredith Noble
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Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction
the topic is hot :)
what I listen to while in creative mind movements:Ludovico Einaudi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAI2doCUbNc
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: [IxDA Discuss] What music for interaction designers
What kind of music do you listen (when you can) while brainstorming,
analysing, designing interactions?
Are there any songs that would make our design flow better?
Let's make a playlist
Dear all,
For some years now the talented people at Intergalactic FM have been
supplying my ears with steady stimulus and unsurpassed inspiration.
They are based in Rotterdam and their 3-in-1 stream goes 24/7, no
advertising (except for stylistic ones for themselves), no talk just
quality
techno trance trip hop 80's jpop
and the louder the better
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Agree with many who like the more ambient, less vocal type approach,
personal faves are American Analog Set, Laika and of course Sigur Ros,
but also enjoy a good dose of Jose Gonzalez or Cat Power if in the
mood for vocals.
Have to say when I really need to get stuff done, I need a steady
Anybody out there not listen to anything?
(coz that's what I do :-)
Adrian -
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I put my headphones on and don't listen to anything when I am doing
something high level / conceptual. The main idea is to not let others bother
/ disturb you. If there's noise around or any distracting conversations or
something, I turn on trip hop / lounge - anything with slow bpm and calm,
When I was a programmer I used to listen to music. Everyday.
Now, as Interaction Designer I do have some problems with music.
When you make code (every given day) you are all the time alone with
your screen, so you put your headphones on, and go.
Now at work I always has to talk with someone, have
On 1 Mar 2009, at 11:07, stefo wrote:
When I was a programmer I used to listen to music. Everyday.
Now, as Interaction Designer I do have some problems with music.
When you make code (every given day) you are all the time alone with
your screen, so you put your headphones on, and go.
Now at
Hello, friends.
What if the music were chosen in order to meet the project's
theme/concept? Would that be part of a criative methodology...
--
Gonçalo B Ferraz @ goncaloferraz.com
Interaction Design @ faberludens.com.br
+55 (48) 3338-2827 - Florianópolis, SC
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Pietro Desiato
pietro.desi...@gmail.com wrote:
What kind of music do you listen (when you can) while brainstorming,
analysing, designing interactions?
Are there any songs that would make our design flow better?
Let's make a playlist :)
Hi Pietro,
When
the neck's 'aether' has been my longtime trusty companion for
writing reading and creative tasks. especially in noisy surroundings.
Other Necks albums work well for me, but none come close to getting
me into the zone like aether...
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uhmmm silence is a form of music...this has worked for me...
MORNING
Iron Wine with calexico-Live on NPR (free to download from NPR)
My Morning Jacket -It Still Moves
M.Ward-Transistor Radio
AFTERNOON
AIR-The Virgin Suicides Soundtrack
Sasha-Air Drawn Dagger
Digweed
Global Underground
MID DAY
I wish I had a link to the study, but I remember reading the following:
The best music for doing work by has very little to do with the music
itself, however, there are a few guidelines that seem to help you avoid
distraction and get into a the flow. These include the following -
1. The music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5cWWV0KNDg
The above I think really hits the nail on the head.
Oh yea, Love Spirals Downward (LSD) and Pendulum are nice rides too.
I think the tempo of the music and your heart rate might be
the respiratory correlate.
What kind of music do you listen (when you can) while brainstorming,
analysing, designing interactions?
Are there any songs that would make our design flow better?
Let's make a playlist :)
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Right now:The Prodigy-Omen
The Velvet Underground-Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
Jane's Addiction - Just Because
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About 30 of us are signed up to a group, helpfully called Ixda on
last.fm which tracks the music we listen to. Granted it makes no
allowances for filtering out the music you listen to in the bath, on
your walk to work or bungee jumping at the weekend but as a general
soundtrack to interaction
http://friskyradio.com/frisky.m3u
i like it
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Flight of the Conchords, The Frames, Flogging Molly
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hi!
in particular in the moments of brainstorming I like listen
electronic music. Sometimes I search new artists on jamendo.com.
But I like also Kaki King and Andy McKee.
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If you want to improve the design you should consider not to listen to
music at all. Peopleware by DeMarco al explains a study showing
how listening to music affected software productivity. The results
showed that the music had little effect on productivity, but did
affect the quality. Those who
I tend to think of music as having a significant effect on my
productivity. Especially when I have some low level mundane tasks
such as iterating feedback in to a design. But I do agree that
listening to music while trying to ideate can be counter productive.
I think this all ties back to a
i actually listen to the itunes radio and have an ambient station i
like called drone zone. i find anything else aside from atmospheric
music distracts me a bit; i tend to pay too much attention to the
music, but the ambient is nice because i have a number of co-workers
around me who are
I've found that I've been listening to music less lately. That could
be due to the amount of multi-tasking and switching.
Anyhow, I agree with those who said no vocals. I go for
ambient/downtempo if I need to stay mellow and relaxed and feel
fairly alert already. Otherwise, I go for trance. A
Flight of the Conchords, The Frames, Flogging Molly
The Frames — nice choice. Glen Hansard is one of the finest songwriters on
the planet.
-r-
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I have all 4 soundtracks to Battlestar Galactica in one playlist, and then
shuffle through them all.
I realize this sounds ultra-nerdy but the music has a surprising effect.
Each soundtrack includes many emotional highs and lows in the music, which
has nicely given me new inspirations during
I have to agree with pauric's comment regarding using music to get a
fresh perspective on a problem. Recently, I've been using one, or
all of these artists for that express purpose:
1.) The National
2.) Thelonious Monk
3.) Band of Horses
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Not to be contrary, but I consider music essential to my process.
There are times for silence and office buzz, but really now...I know how I work.
Weedling through wireframes of familiar sorts, documenting, sketching,
corresponding:
trance (esp. psytrance), dancey goth-industrial, Mozart, Chopin
I listen to music while I'm doing visual stuff and not while I'm doing
verbal/analytical stuff. What I listen to while designing is generally what I
listen to in general: Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson, medieval and Renaissance
polyphony, Celtic stuff, and if I've got a concert coming up, the MP3s
I'd like to know the conditions of this study. In my experience, the
choice for most software engineers is not between music and silence,
but rather between music and other people's chatter. Thus, I find it
hard to imagine an experiment where listening to music would enable
less
@Katie: I read the book a while ago, but I remember it as a controlled
experiment with only music as the variable. Those who did not listen
to music worked undisturbed.
I buy the argument that music can shield disturbances that are far
worse, but shouldn't that problem be solved in another way.
Erik,
I absolutely agree that silence -- or a reasonable equivalent (white
noise, wind, water, and all the other W's) are optimum for creativity.
It's what I've observed to be true in my own work and what I've
invariably heard from people who find themselves in a position where
they are
When I'm really focused, I listen to Rammstein. I work in a small office and
sometimes they are a little too loud, so I find that Rammstein drowns out
everything. I don't know why I like it, I just do.
Besides Rammstein, lately it's been musicals: Cats, Chicago, Cabaret, etc. I
also like
I too listen to FriskyRadio: http://www.friskyradio.com
I usually cycle between that and ETN.fm - http://www.etn.fm - because
I love electronic music as well :)
I find that if I try to listen to my iPod, I spend too much time
skipping around for certain songs than I do working, so I'm much
more
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