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 Hollis' eponymous album) or David Sylvian. By way of a digression, I also get inspiration from good photographs or other visual art which inspire me.
I was on a team that did some research a while ago into commercial airline cockpits and one of our findings was that irrelevant sound interferes when tasks require concentration. Hence silence for analysis, learning etc, and noise for creation! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39321 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
