Thread 24637281

Do you listen to something while reading? Music? Ambient? White noise?

>>24637281 (OP)
I liked to listen to music while reading as a teenager, but when I got older it had to be instrumental music, and these days I find myself unable to concentrate on real books while listening to music of any kind. On the other hand, I wind up reading 4chan if only to give my hands and eyes something to do while listening to music.

>>24637281 (OP)
Powerviolence and grindcore. No, really.

euphoric ambient in the daytime, dysphoric ambient in the nightime. i can't even listen to doof doof no more.

>>24637293

Same

t. 18 y.o

>>24637376

I bump black metal and post-hardcore, indie rock when i read sometimes. It can also be ambient/drone/classical.

>>24637281 (OP)
Yeah, the moans of my wife getting breed by chad.

Yes but sometimes I spend more time fighting with shitty videos than reading the book.
I'd be looking for dark academia or melancholic piano and the videos all have sound effects (rain, wind...) and reverb. They also can't keep the same tone at all thoughout the playlist, and the only songs fitting the title of the video are at the very beginning. They also use the same ones again and again; and also keep using classical pieces that require way too much attention.

Helder, Ophelia Wild and MAYBE Pianza (Errm, edit!: fuck this guy actually, keeps using the same songs of every single fucking vide-fucking-o) are the least bad of these channels but I still want to skin them alive. Also protip if you're looking for actual "dark" academia look up "really dark academia" then skip the playlist with loud asf sound effects.

When I find the right music I read all thoughout the day; it's the only way I can stay focused.

>>24637645
I'd also like to point out that finding sad songs is impossible. I simply read the sad moments without music. You'd think the white girls making these playlist romanticize sadness but I guess not

I have 30+ gigs of mp3s and I shuffle them by album on an endless loop

>>24637281 (OP)
I read in silence or around chirping birds because I don't have ADD

I listened to this whilst reading Blood Meridian. Made me enjoy it even more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-M4u8LjlyE

Nothing because I’m not a hylic

>>24637281 (OP)
Not while reading it distracts me. I listen to dark jazz and ambient, nothing else interests me anymore

>>24638380
>tfw we'll never have Michael Gira make music for BM
sad

>>24637281 (OP)
https://youtu.be/NoRB6zN3ZbY

https://youtu.be/YTY7UV6GpkM

jk, I can'r concentrate on the text if I'm listening to music. Just wanted to post gusic

>>24638603
How can anyone read while listening to human voices? I find them very distracting

I like early 70s Grateful Dead.

>>24637281 (OP)
It is not that i listen to music while specifically reading. It is that in our home music always plays (minus night time, but even this is not an unbreakable rule). Dire Straights, Thelonius Monk, Grieg, Ozzy Osbourne, Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Gong, Grateful Dead and many-many others, well-known and semi-obscure. You can just exist with music, you can intentionally listen to it if something gets you interested, but music is always there. I read mostly fantasy/scifi/adventures though, also try Robert Rankin - also a Scotland satirical fantasy writer not unlike certain Pratchett, but with slightlh darker moments in some books, while at the same time less serious. With him you can expect gratuitous running gags, a trail of references and a final roof-top trick ending. Some loose ends, various spin-offs and all strictly making fun of society and their creations only.
So, when i'm reading, music always is on, but it is always on whenever i'm doing almost anything else sans watching something, playing videogames (both provide its own music) or play music myself.

>>24637281 (OP)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ueufxzUjsS0

>>24637281 (OP)
the calm rustling of leaves

>>24639882
BEAST MODE

>>24639882
beautiful

why the hell do people listen to stuff while reading

>>24637281 (OP)
no, i like to be able to assess what i'm reading (or what i'm listening to) and mixing it with a separate set of impressions from the music tends to undermine that.

>>24637281 (OP)
No, that's subhuman. I only wear ear plugs sometimes.

>>24637281 (OP)
Modern psytrance, outside of the progressive side, is essentially rhythmically repetitive drone music - think didgeridoos - due to the bassline. This facilitates entering into trance and flow states suitable for studying or reading.
But every repetitive 4/4 hypnotic music - techno,. especially the minimal and deep and dub styles, and trance - can get you there thanks to the simple rhythm.
Amphetamine nigger music like drum and bass ruins concentration, makes you irritated, and invites bad vibes generally (never met anyone sane or normal or not nigger slav who enjoyed drum and bass: the genre with the most criminals and mentally ill).
Ambient and slow instrumental music - chillout, not spastic dnb influenced IDM - is good, too. It offers a womb like velvety type immersion that isolates you from the rest of the world and enhances your reading. It's predominantly made by whites, so that may explain its healing and concentrative properties.

steve roach, tim hecker, thom brennan, brian eno,

>>24637281 (OP)
I read the entire Lotus Sutra while playing binaural beats through my earphones. I like the part where the stupa of a Buddha who died aeons and aeons prior to the recitation of the Lotus Sutra appears in the midst of the assembly and, the stupa opening up, he shows his face and claps his hands to applaud the recitation of the Lotus Sutra.
It turns into total wackjob shit like that after the verse sections are finished.
TL;DR: every sentient being in every age from every world assembled to hear the Buddha say “we’re all gonna make it.”

>>24637281 (OP)
I put a fireplace/rain on my TV

the eeeEEEEEeeeeeEeeEEEEEEEeeee in my ears

>>24640290
same

>>24637281 (OP)
Not really, but I tried to listen to Metal while reading the Iliad. It was a good experience, very intense.

a fan to drown out the ambient noise

>>24637281 (OP)
I prefer not to, but things are often so noisy that I have to have something playing just to block all the bullshit out. I usually go for Lustmord - The Word as Power (and none of his other albums), but if that's not enough I either put on muted grey noise (the youtube people call that "brown noise", unfortunately enough) or some black metal or adjacent, usually Reverorum ib Malacht. Hearing protection with earplugs works also, but amplifies the sound of my pulse to uncomfortable levels and makes me overly physically sensitive to the subtle vibrations from what I can no longer hear. The best reading environment is out in/by the woods, but where I live there's almost more sound pollution there than downtown at all times except between 3-5 am.

>>24642629
when was the last time you were reading in the woods at 3-5am

>>24637281 (OP)
While writing, absolutely. While reading? Definitely not. Even birds chirping loudly outside my window is enough to distract me.

>>24642640
tuesday. There's lots of lakes and such here where it's usually bright enough to read, especially in summer. Otherwise I know some lonely places with soft electric light, but they're less comfortable and sometimes they get trashed.

Mostly post-rock (that's instrumental) or something ambient-adjacent, but not the "one note slowly changes into another over 60 minutes" youtube trash.
Jazzy stuff like what Gondwana Record releases is great. Mammal Hands, Kessoncoda, eetc.
Synth/electro stuff if reading scifi, I like to find music that acts as a soundtrack to whatever genre I'm reading.

>>24637648
>Worldhaspostrock, In The Woods
A lot of the newer stuff is generic, but I can always count on any God Is An Astronaut album to emphasize the required mood (sad/epic)

>>24641998
Fuck yeah, will try rereading some chapters while listening to Invent Animate's instrumental metalcore today.

>>24637281 (OP)
Not usually, but stuff like the Diablo soundtracks work pretty well for reading fantasy.

>>24637281 (OP)
yes. Being able to fully immerse myself in a book while listening to music is very powerful experience.

>>24638455
and yet here you are, in material existence.

>>24637517
for me it can range from trad/power metal to noise rock/grunge to industrial/ambient to black/death metal to thrash to progressive rock and classical/baroque music.

I listened to Meek's Cutoff soundtrack for Blood Meridian. Not 100% of the time obviously

I listen to my crippling tinnitus.

>>24637281 (OP)
No