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Ask HN: Hacking Music
What music do you'll listen to while in the zone ?
- kingsidharth 16y agoZeplin!
- ciaranbradley 16y agoI thoroughly recommend "Drumming" by Steve Reich.
- phamilton 16y agoMy last big code session was with ACDC playing. That was a "I've got 2 hours to implement these features" session.
- martinp 16y agoThunderstruck on repeat. Always. From now and until the end of time.
- antareus 16y agoChillout is my go to. Check out groups like Blue Sky Black Death (instrumental hip-hop), Portishead, and Apparat. The genre is big -- you can spend a lot of time finding stuff you like.
- wlk 16y agoI recently listened a lot of "Grateful Dead" , it really kept me going.
- ZeroMinx 16y agoAtari Teenage Riot.
- wicknicks 16y agoAnything from the Beatles to melodic death metal keeps me ticking :)
- aw3c2 16y agoThis has been here countless times https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+music+while https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+music+wh... and it rarely was more than name-dropping.
- marssaxman 16y agopsychedelic and/or progressive trance. nothing like 135-140 bpm and a lot of trippy filter twirling to keep my brain happy while I work.
- hebejebelus 16y agoRight now, The Social Network soundtrack. Before I bought that, M83 or 65daysofstatic. Postrock, mostly, with no goddamn lyrics.
- swah 16y agoDo you mean the 5 free ones?
- hebejebelus 16y agoNope. I actually bought the soundtrack. Only $5 for a lossless download. €3.59, you can't exactly go wrong. http://www.nullco.com/TSN/ http://www.nullco.com/TSN/
- trafficlight 16y agoThere is too much going on in 65daysofstatic songs. I end up focusing on the elements of the music and not on the task at hand.
- glaze 16y agoJuno Reactor.
- ifthen 16y agoDon’t know if others experience this, but I can’t listen to anything with lyrics while figuring things out because it distracts me, so movie scores work best. (Currently, that’s James Horner, Thomas Newman etc.) When I’m banging work out in the production phase though where I don’t need to think, then metalcore/metal/hard rock.
- gatsby 16y agoJazz.
- mehulkar 16y agoI like this idea. Any suggestions particularly?
- charlesdm 16y agoVocal trance
- ggordan 16y agoI tend to listen to FrenchKissFM. It's an online radio station. Mostly electronic, and house music. Very few lyrics which is great since it doesn't distract me too much. http://www.frenchkissfm.com/?page_id=3783 http://www.frenchkissfm.com/?page_id=3783
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoOh no, not again ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=167076 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=167076 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=367418 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=367418 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668087 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668087 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716219 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716219 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769769 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769769 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209378 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209378 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1734122 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1734122 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833040 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833040 ----- And again, from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716262 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716262 - one of the many times this question has come up ... None - I can't code while music is on. Ditto conversation, and ditto doing math. There was something in PeopleWare (I think) about an experiment done with people listening to music. Those listening to their preferred music performed about as well as those who preferred silence and got it, and about as well as those who preferred music, but had silence. The group that preferred silence but had music performed, unsurprisingly, comparatively badly. The sting in the tail was this. The task they were given had an "Aha!" insight buried in it. Namely, the full set of transforms they'd been asked to implement turned out to be trivial, although the individual components weren't. All the programmers who had the "Aha!" moment had silence, regardless of their preference. No one with music saw the short cut. I've since tried to find concrete evidence to support this anecdote, either papers, or first hand accounts, but the recounting in PeopleWare remains the only reference I have.
- Natsu 16y ago> None - I can't code while music is on. Ditto conversation, and ditto doing math. I'm the same way. I have to turn it off or it distracts me and breaks my focus.
- mahmud 16y agoNot only am I incapable of productive work with music or sound, I temporarily lose speech if I am interrupted. If the phone rings while I am coding I don't even bother to answer: I will not be able to talk anyway, and I wont remember anything you tell me.
- fictorial 16y agohttp://aux.zendesk.com/wall/ http://aux.zendesk.com/wall/
- pstinnett 16y agohttp://ghostly.com/discovery http://ghostly.com/discovery
- frobozz 16y agoBrown noise with oscillating volume, mostly. http://www.simplynoise.com/ http://www.simplynoise.com/
- hnal943 16y agoThey Might Be Giants