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Music to Let you Concentrate

335 points by biswajitsharma 13y ago

ff10 13y ago
I regularly go with Autechre "Perlence Subrange 6-36", Alva Noto's Xerox Vol. 1, Haliod Copies, Oval - "Systemisch"
yoshgoodman 13y ago
I use this channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugb_j1Et8HRUpGiboLsPCw http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugb_j1Et8HRUpGiboLsPCw
brusch 13y ago
I think this is one of the few perks not beeing a English native speaker: I do understand lyrics if I concentrate but otherwise I hear the voice just as another instrument. So I can listen to nearly any music for progrmaming. One of my favourites is Origin - Antithesis. But really everything works.
michaelgrafl 13y ago
Justin Bieber slowed down by 800% makes for some nice ambient noise. Someone should assemble a collection of lame pop music that sounds awesome when piped through Paul's Stretch. Would listen.
- epsylon 13y ago
  For the lazy, here's the song mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M This was created using paulstretch [1], a program to transform normal audio using extreme stretches. I've tried it on a few songs I liked and it does really an excellent jobs of creating extremely fluid ambiances. The triple parentheses on the first video is a nod to Sunn O))) [2], an American drone / noise / ambient metal band which features super long songs with droning saturated guitars (playing on vintage cranked up to 11 Sunn Model T amps) and usually no drums. One of my favorite songs from them and perhaps one of the best introduction to their music for the non-initiated is titled Alice [3], though perhaps it's not as representative of their music as, say, Ra at Dusk [4]. (Sunn O))) was heavily influenced by the pioneer drone metal band Earth, and their mindblowing album Earth²: special low frequency version [5]). [1] http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunn_%28band%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunn_%28band%29 [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Djdi6z0m8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Djdi6z0m8 [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buA_xDQQg74 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buA_xDQQg74 [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1OYn_xGzM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1OYn_xGzM
- lolcraft 13y ago
  Minor detail someone might not know: a part of the Inception soundtrack (which is also great ambient) was made with that technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkQ0C4qDvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkQ0C4qDvM Those who have seen the movie and its plot device will know why this is a brilliant idea on so many levels.
- cududa 13y ago
  Just curious - what is your disdain for pop music?
cfolgar 13y ago
Interesting. I've seen a few similar submissions here that play ambient/focus music. To me, a product or service like this has to provide enough goodies to sway me from the convenience of a simple Spotify playlist, seeing as that is the go-to choice for many. If you can strike a balance between creating helpful productivity customization and keeping it simple, something like this could really takeoff.
healsjnr1 13y ago
Board of Canada. Need I say more?
- amouat 13y ago
  An extra s would be nice - Boards of Canada ;) Nice to hear a Scottish band getting a shout though.
  - partomniscient 13y ago
    Indeed. For those that aren't aware, their new album just came out a few days ago as well.
healsjnr1 13y ago
Board of Canada. Need I say more?
deepvibrations 13y ago
For me it's all about headphones with a good bass response and a bit of deep dubstep :) http://www.youtube.com/deepervibrations http://www.youtube.com/deepervibrations
fhd2 13y ago
Have been using this for about two months now. Never really listened to music while working before, for some reason it always ended up distracting me (the kind of music I like anyway). But with this, I can actually concentrate just fine. Can't really tell if it helps, but at least it's nice music that doesn't get in the way, good enough for me :)
antoncohen 13y ago
Coffitivity works well for me, it's not music, it's ambient noise http://www.coffitivity.com/ http://www.coffitivity.com/
- akhilravidas 13y ago
  +1 for coffitivity, I never imagined that a noise like this will help me focus until I started using it a few months back
- swah 13y ago
  But... isn't this exactly like the sound I'm trying to block (coworkers talking!) ? :) [edit] I just read on their page that their theory is "It's pretty hard to be creative in a quiet space". So while I like the "hotel lobbby" feel for some kinds of work, I disagree that silence is bad. OTOH, this might work for me because I can't parse engilsh that well.
  - antoncohen 13y ago
    No, coworkers walking is distracting because I can hear and understand what they are saying. My mind gets interested and will try to listen. For me it's the same with music that has pronounced lyrics.
    - swah 13y ago
      Right, so the point is that there is enough people talking at the same time that it becomes noise..
- igravious 13y ago
  This made me fall asleep.
DiabloD3 13y ago
I'd like to recommend BlueMars as well, http://bluemars.org/ http://bluemars.org/ Although I wish the guy running it would add more music.
jsingleton 13y ago
http://www.radioparadise.com http://www.radioparadise.com is pretty good for easy listening
jcfrei 13y ago
I've realized that it doesn't matter so much what I listen to but rather how much. The more often I hear a song / album whilst working the better it helps me to focus. For a while now this has been pink floyds pulse concert from 1994.
- georgemcbay 13y ago
  For me, songs without lyrics work best, doesn't matter if it is classical or instrumental techno like Nine Inch Nail's "Ghosts". Songs with vocals that I've heard a lot are better than songs with vocals that I've never heard before, presumably because my brain isn't trying as hard to process the words as it would be if I hadn't heard them as much... but songs with no vocals at all are the best for focus, IME.
dbcooper 13y ago
The mixes from Non-Collective are pretty good too. http://noncollective.com/ http://noncollective.com/
adamors 13y ago
Noise, modal jazz. Anything with a simple pattern is distracting.
jwr 13y ago
Be careful. Music engages your creative hemisphere. This doesn't matter much if what you're doing is a simple, repetitive task. But if you're trying to design or program, it might kill your ability to "think outside the box" and invent creative solutions. In my case, listening to music while programming has a very pronounced effect: I will spend 30 minutes crafting a function that will do something. The function will eventually work. And then I will stop listening to music and several minutes later notice that the function was entirely unnecessary, because I can make an architectural or data structure change instead and avoid writing the function altogether. This is something I am unable to do while listening to music. Once I noticed this, I started being careful: I'd listen to music while configuring routers, but not when planning and designing the changes. You get the idea. So, before you start listening to music while working, I'd advise you to check if your brain works the same way (the effect might not be exactly the same for everyone). These days I mostly use natural sounds (the Naturespace app for iOS is great) and good headphones to mute background noise.
- LatvjuAvs 13y ago
  Same, by working with something I am familiar with and have almost mechanical memory, no problems listening any music. That includes working on coding, but I have done it before. By creating "new/bespoke" functionality, then I have to switch off music. To read complex document and make my own judgement I need to switch off music. And same problem applies with office work noise.
- throwaway183 13y ago
  Music engages your creative hemisphere. Do you have a source for this?
  - jwr 13y ago
    This precise statement is easily verified (just google it). But I thought I had a source for the "listening to music hampers your creative ability" statement, and I can't seem to find it. You could reason that if you engage the brain with something, then it cannot do another thing at the same time. So if you engage the areas responsible for creative thought processes, these areas will not be available for other tasks. Obviously this might not be the same for everyone, I'm just cautioning people and urging everyone to do some testing. Another example is that many people (including myself) can't dictate, for the same reasons. In my case, whenever I use dictation, I later go back and re-read what I wrote and it is always disappointing. It seems the areas of my brain that process speech are also needed to form thoughts into sentences and I just can't do both well.
ashutoshm 13y ago
Yo-Yo Ma - Bach, Cello Suites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHzfD6XLK7Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHzfD6XLK7Q
QuantumGood 13y ago
In spotify, the "Exam Study Classical Music…" playlist is good to know: http://open.spotify.com/user/127564522/playlist/0CwzkFXVbEK6VJO3Rzo7lX http://open.spotify.com/user/127564522/playlist/0CwzkFXVbEK6...
buster 13y ago
Doesn't work for me, i can't concentrate with this music.. I'm not sure if this will even work for a broader range or people because music is so much subjective.. For me it totally depends on the mood what music i can work best with, but usually it's some electronic house music where i can concentrate best.
INTPenis 13y ago
I like the idea but right now I have no connectivity on this app. So far I've been using raining.fm because chamber music sometimes slows down and quiets so I can hear my co-workers. My goal is to shut out what everyone is saying, but not the fact that they're talking. So far raining.fm has been perfect, but the only small downside is that when you take the headphones off it feels like you stepped out of a space shuttle or something.
antihero 13y ago
I've always found myself to be most productive when listening to repetitive electronic music - it motivates but also doesn't distract you too much. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUAAVUKk6Fc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUAAVUKk6Fc - it's rather seedy and excellent in it's own right. Two Lone Swordsmen is okay, too. Another good one is soundtracks - personally I like futuristic stuff (Deus Ex: HR soundtrack, or Mass Effect, or Person of Interest), as they are designed not to detract from the point of focus. Lastly, luvstep/liquid dubstep type things are quite vapid but listen-able.
- tripzilch 13y ago
  > I've always found myself to be most productive when listening to repetitive electronic music - it motivates but also doesn't distract you too much. Yup, goa-trance for me :) Music with a lot of lyrics is most distracting to me, though I've found it also depends on the particular way the vocals are mixed/mastered, on some albums they're much harder to ignore than others. Lyrics in my native tongue (Dutch) are hardest to ignore, but even music in a foreign language I don't understand at all (say, the xxx rottweiler hundar, Icelandic hiphop) is more distracting than something (almost) purely instrumental.
  - angersock 13y ago
    If you like goa and whatnot, these folks have some good free tracks scattered across different electronic genres: http://www.ektoplazm.com/ http://www.ektoplazm.com/
    - tripzilch 13y ago
      Thanks, I am already aware :) Two recent finds on that site I've been listening to a lot are Mindsphere - Inner Cyclone (old school melodic goa) and Pavel Svimba - Space Babuska (real crazy, poppy psy, reminds of Haltya, some great mixing/mastering, way too distracting for this thread though :) ). This site shows that it is in fact possible to offer great quality music online for free & legal download. I'm frankly amazed actually, just how it can be. These producers must love their craft so much.
oceanician 13y ago
This works great for me if not used too frequently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0EgzJ0KGxg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0EgzJ0KGxg Wish there was a 8 hour version!
jrnkntl 13y ago
To each his/her own music needed to concentrate. The ambient sounds help me to get stuff done in the mornings, as a wake up :) During long coding-nights I'd rather go for Tech-house livesets that can be found all over soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tags/tech-house https://soundcloud.com/tags/tech-house
khalidmbajwa 13y ago
I somehow find techno and trans music to be quite distracting, this playlist however is an absolute godsend. "http://8tracks.com/tachedroof/the-only-study-mix-you-will-ever-need-pt-1" http://8tracks.com/tachedroof/the-only-study-mix-you-will-ev... Comprised of classical music scores from some of the best movies, it creates the perfect ambience for coding, which stays out of your way, yet soothes and calms you while enhancing your productivity. Can't get enough of this mix.
- philbarr 13y ago
  You mean: http://8tracks.com/tachedroof/the-only-study-mix-you-will-ever-need-pt-1 http://8tracks.com/tachedroof/the-only-study-mix-you-will-ev... The quote got included in your link
pepr 13y ago
"... two out of three of people like to listen to music while they work, study or read but it’s difficult to find and manage music that consistently works well for this purpose." Precisely! I like to listen to ambient music when working and constantly trying to find new music for this purpose is quite a hassle.
- bonjourmr 13y ago
  last.fm is great for this. Type in an artist/genre you like and for the next few hours while you work, you will discover plenty of new ones as their radio service works by molding a 'radio service' to your taste.
  - jsingleton 13y ago
    I made a playlist generator application for Spotify a while ago that uses the last.fm API: http://unop.co.uk/dev/spotify-playlist-generator/ http://unop.co.uk/dev/spotify-playlist-generator/ I'd be interested to know if it works everywhere. It still works in the UK. EDIT: Source code: https://github.com/jpsingleton/Spotify-Playlist-Generator https://github.com/jpsingleton/Spotify-Playlist-Generator
  - slhsen 13y ago
    Sadly, last.fm radio isn't available on most parts of the world anymore.
- rednukleus 13y ago
  Can you recommend a Top 5 ambient albums for working? EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions!
  - slyall 13y ago
    Try Ambient Nights - http://www.ambient-nights.org/ http://www.ambient-nights.org/ About 60 album length mixes
  - tuzemec 13y ago
    Recently found this guy: http://soundcloud.com/s1gnsofl1fe http://soundcloud.com/s1gnsofl1fe Pretty nice. Also the french label ultimae releases some amazing stuff: http://ultimae.com/ http://ultimae.com/
kcorbitt 13y ago
This is a great little service. I have a "concentrate" playlist in spotify that tries to fill this need with classical music, but I listen to it in the background so much that even with a fairly long playlist I get tired of hearing the same songs. Will definitely be trying this out.
tdicola 13y ago
For concentrating, I'm a big fan of Brian Eno's ambient albums like Ambient 1: Music for Airports.
nreece 13y ago
The app layout is responsive and looks slick too. What framework (if any) did you use to build the UI?
- biswajitsharma 13y ago
  Apologies, Just in case there has been any confusion. I just came across the Service, Liked it, Shared it here. I am not involved in developing this service. I liked the fact that, there is a lot of science that has gone behind it.
soitgoes 13y ago
Nice service. When I'm coding Trance, mainly Armin van Buuren, works best for me.
- niels 13y ago
  Yep, Trance works for me as well. I use di.fm/trance.
- gizzlon 13y ago
  Same here, house is nice as well. You can fine a lot of 2 hours mixes on soundcloud as well as a state of trance on spotify
- ek 13y ago
  Yup, trance and house for me, definitely. Trance and house are like productivity crack. I listen to trance when I'm working and house when I'm working out.
- jwdunne 13y ago
  Agreed and same. I have a playlist on my phone for just trance which gets listened to whenever I'm working or even exercising. I noticed something really interesting - your pace adjusts to the beat. For example, I took my headphones off to take a call and I was in awe at the speed of the beat, which only 2 minutes ago sounded fairly regular and not as fast.
  - jlengrand 13y ago
    Agreed. When I was working for my math exams, having to learn dozens of demonstrations by heart, I have a playlist composed of 6 hours of remixes of satisfaction, by Benni Benassi. Amazing how 6 hours can look like 30 minutes when you listen to the same, repititive music :).
JoshTriplett 13y ago
"It appears you have no connectivity."
- wwwhizz 13y ago
  I presume you are blocking Flash.
  - Sujan 13y ago
    Nah, happens quite a lot after some time of play.
Nzen 13y ago
On the advice of coffitivity, I've turned to human environments for ambient noise. I've been blessed with library access to the BBC sound effects library. http://www.sound-ideas.com/sound-effects/bbc-41-60-cds-sound-effects-library.html http://www.sound-ideas.com/sound-effects/bbc-41-60-cds-sound... Some are the typical sfx fare, but the latter half is of city streets from around the world.
- limmeau 13y ago
  Have you tried Boodler, a soundscape generator? http://boodler.org/ http://boodler.org/
- jimbosis 13y ago
  SoundTransit http://turbulence.org/soundtransit/index.html http://turbulence.org/soundtransit/index.html has interesting field recordings all under the CC BY 2.0 license. If you "Book a Transit," it compiles an mp3 of several different field recordings, taking you from city to city. You can also search the database or just browse the collection.
  - limmeau 13y ago
    The flight booking metaphor makes it very inviting to play around. Thanks for sharing. (Now if I could get Firefox for Android to download a .mp3 link to local SD card...)
theclothesthief 13y ago
Nice app but is the favicon a red tooth? This is bugging me more than it should.
- thezilch 13y ago
  No, https://www.focusatwill.com/favicon.ico https://www.focusatwill.com/favicon.ico
mellotron 13y ago
Boards of Canada pandora, gradually tuned for minor key ambient electronica. That's my work soundtrack of choice.
vixen99 13y ago
From Serse? I thought it was Handel.
- gazrogers 13y ago
  It is Handel. The Opera is Serse or Xerxes.
limmeau 13y ago
To concentrate, I use computer game soundtracks (e.g. from Humble Bundle; particularly the one with Eufloria and Waking Mars), and to drown out voices of coworkers whose volume dial got lost in the laundry, text-heavy music in a language I don't understand (alternating between Czech hip-hop and Finnish hummpa).
- lloeki 13y ago
  I regularly the Fez soundtrack by Disasterpeace, and musicforprogramming();[0] has quite a few ones (esp. 06 and 08) that "just work" with my brain and make me zoom right into the zone in seconds. Also, This Binary Universe by BT. [0]: http://musicforprogramming.net/?c=manifesto http://musicforprogramming.net/?c=manifesto
  - DiabloD3 13y ago
    Yay for musicforprogramming. I listen to their mixes quite frequently. I wish they'd do a 24 hour mix that omitts vocals and sharp sounds altogether, that'd pretty much be the best ambient music I could imagine.
- rmrfrmrf 13y ago
  Agreed. (The Sims 1 Build Mode Tracks/Skyrim OST/Skyrim Atmospheres CD) + RainyMood. Done and Done.
jechen 13y ago
"We are not an entertainment company – we are a productivity tool company. We provide a new additional service you use to get stuff done better." Yes! This is exactly the kind of music service I've been looking for when I'm working.
larrykubin 13y ago
Explosions in the Sky is my go to for this.
iMark 13y ago
I'm deeply in love with Zoe Keating's work. She's a cellist who composes and records her own music, building compositions using a looper. It's beautiful stuff, and I find it perfect for coding.
p0nce 13y ago
I use 25-min "pomodoro" mixes from there http://tech.no.com/ http://tech.no.com/
- boothead 13y ago
  Nice, thanks for sharing!
  - p0nce 13y ago
    Also progressive house mixes from https://soundcloud.com/cid-inc https://soundcloud.com/cid-inc and https://soundcloud.com/mystic-mind https://soundcloud.com/mystic-mind
hdra 13y ago
Dubstep and trance music usually do the job for me
scotty79 13y ago
I think that music just tricks my brain into thinking that what I'm doing is cool though it almost never is.
dakimov 13y ago
I did not get how they handle intellectual property.
kaonashi 13y ago
I need something that my brain isn't going to try to follow along with, like late 60's/early 70's jazz.
revorad 13y ago
Loving the Up Tempo channel this morning. Nice work.
5555624 13y ago
I tend to go with 12 Girls Band or movie soundtracks (Morricone, Horner, Williams).
gburnett 13y ago
Thanks for posting this. Silence is preferable to music but music is preferable to other voices.
jafaku 13y ago
Doesn't work. I click on the buttons and nothing happens.
b0rsuk 13y ago
I noticed a while ago that some music needs active listening[1], while other kinds[2] don't distract me. 1 - Rock, various kinds of progressive music, anything with nontrivial melody 2 - ambient, more monotonous music, music with uniform volume I'd love to say I've started dividing my music collection according to this criteria - but I've been too lazy so far. Sorry about that. I'll try once again.
brixon 13y ago
It's different for everyone and you should try out different things. For me, a 2 disc collection of Willie Nelson helps the most since it is a moderate tempo and I have heard it so many times that it is not distracting. Also, when the 2 CDs are done, I know that I should stand up and stretch.
b0rsuk 13y ago
Once upon a time Red Alert (1), one of first RTS games, won Game Music of the Year award from multiple magazines. I was initially a bit puzzled by it: there's nothing in the music that immediately jumps at you as great. It's nice, it resembles Nine Inch Nails in some places, that's it. But then I noticed I can listen to it for extended lengths of time without problem. It's relatively subtle, and it grows on you. It doesn't resemble the "epic" movie-style soundtracks that are so common these days. And I guess that's the point... ? Game music, especially in replayable games like RTS, need to be good in the long run or it inevitably ends up being turned off in game settings. "Epic" music makes good first impression, and in trailers, but it's short-sighted in the long run. I'm arguing along these lines on Age of Wonders 3 forums (upcoming fantasy TBS game similar to Heroes of Might and Magic), but without success.
- pyre 13y ago
  Slight off-topic, but reminded me of this: http://dustincurtis.com/how-mr-q-manufactured-emotion.html http://dustincurtis.com/how-mr-q-manufactured-emotion.html
- angersock 13y ago
  The SimCity4 soundtrack is really awesome for just hacking away at things. I think that the Red Alert soundtrack is one of the best "get shit done" albums I've had in my box for a while, even with the amazingly cheesy synths and 90s style. The Descent and System Shock 2 soundtracks were very much in this vein (SS1 was procedurally generated, so it's hit or miss). I think the big trick is that game music is meant to get you thinking and active, but not distract you.
  - b0rsuk 13y ago
    Red Alert 1 amazingly cheesy ? Really ? Frank Klepacki - "Mechanical Man" (C&C 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap6QaDBZJwM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap6QaDBZJwM C&C 1 tracks had vocals unit they figured out it conflicted with the announcer.
eggsyntax 13y ago
I've had really good luck with certain kinds of minimalist music. In particular, Simeon Ten Holt's "Canto Ostinato" seems to actively help me focus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDCsOL2vBJc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDCsOL2vBJc Most performances are well over an hour, so a nice little side benefit is that you don't have to spend much time picking and changing music.
Aqueous 13y ago
Music to let you concatenate.
crazygringo 13y ago
Wow. This seems like a great and interesting product... But it also seems like the kind of thing any programmer with a decent music collection could throw together as an MVP in a couple of weekends (ignoring music distribution rights, of course). But it's got quite the large team of people behind it -- I'm very curious to see if this can monetize well. It just seems like such a "niche" product -- like it should be just another channel on Pandora, instead of a whole company in its own right. Seeing that margins on music streaming are generally already so low, I wish I could see their monetization strategy...
cpeterso 13y ago
I like listening to rain or even white (or pink or brown) noise: http://www.rainymood.com/ http://www.rainymood.com/ http://whitenoisemeditation.bandcamp.com/ http://whitenoisemeditation.bandcamp.com/
lectrick 13y ago
I feel bad for people who can't tolerate this sort of music but wordless energetic-yet-repetitive techno/trance/dubstep/etc seems to work great for me
frankydp 13y ago
http://www.getworkdonemusic.com/ http://www.getworkdonemusic.com/ Link was posted on here a while back but is still the go to solution for me. Pretty well curated list of trance style stuff. Also has a fast and slow option.
hoytie 13y ago
I have a "music for programming" spotify playlist for anyone interested: http://open.spotify.com/user/thoyt/playlist/2AUYxFDAi6MdOPtgOdcCxF http://open.spotify.com/user/thoyt/playlist/2AUYxFDAi6MdOPtg... I tend to think I do my best work in silence, but for repetitive or boring tasks it's great to have a lovely soundtrack.
ChikkaChiChi 13y ago
The best sound to help me concentrate would be some sort of ultrasonic repellent to keep people out of my office (unless absolutely necessary, of course!)
devindotcom 13y ago
I'm a little confused (though the service looks nice and works well). Do people not have their own music they prefer to listen to, or a dozen other ways to stream customized channels?
rob-alarcon 13y ago
I was just testing the site like at 10:00AM and I just realize that I have been listening and coding with the "Up Tempo" station for about 40 min. This is nice.
codereflection 13y ago
The service looks awesome, will definitely be trying it out. Also I love how the comments on this post have provided a plethora of new places to find music. Thanks everyone.
kvcrawford 13y ago
I'm a big fan of electronic music and the craft of DJing, and my favorite type of music to listen to while coding is UK Bass and its various subgenres. For this, I get my fix from the online "pirate-style" radio station, http://sub.fm http://sub.fm, which has live DJs and an IRC chatroom where you can chat with the DJ and other fans. It's really great. Note that this type of music is different from more mainstream (and American) dubstep—it has a deeper, more ambient quality to it. Great coding music. Recently, I've also discovered a similar radio station for ambient music: http://stillstream.com/ http://stillstream.com/
orthecreedence 13y ago
I like DroneZone from SomaFM. It's my go to music for loud neighbors or lots of distracting noise. Very calming and allows me to concentrate.
azsromej 13y ago
A really nice site for pink noise (and fans, traffic, babbling, airplane cabins, waterfalls, rivers) is http://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php http://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php The creator is a signal processing engineer.

335 points by biswajitsharma 13y ago

ff10 13y ago

I regularly go with Autechre "Perlence Subrange 6-36", Alva Noto's Xerox Vol. 1, Haliod Copies, Oval - "Systemisch"

I use this channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugb_j1Et8HRUpGiboLsPCw http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugb_j1Et8HRUpGiboLsPCw

brusch 13y ago

I think this is one of the few perks not beeing a English native speaker: I do understand lyrics if I concentrate but otherwise I hear the voice just as another instrument. So I can listen to nearly any music for progrmaming. One of my favourites is Origin - Antithesis. But really everything works.

michaelgrafl 13y ago

Justin Bieber slowed down by 800% makes for some nice ambient noise. Someone should assemble a collection of lame pop music that sounds awesome when piped through Paul's Stretch. Would listen.

epsylon 13y ago
For the lazy, here's the song mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M This was created using paulstretch [1], a program to transform normal audio using extreme stretches. I've tried it on a few songs I liked and it does really an excellent jobs of creating extremely fluid ambiances. The triple parentheses on the first video is a nod to Sunn O))) [2], an American drone / noise / ambient metal band which features super long songs with droning saturated guitars (playing on vintage cranked up to 11 Sunn Model T amps) and usually no drums. One of my favorite songs from them and perhaps one of the best introduction to their music for the non-initiated is titled Alice [3], though perhaps it's not as representative of their music as, say, Ra at Dusk [4]. (Sunn O))) was heavily influenced by the pioneer drone metal band Earth, and their mindblowing album Earth²: special low frequency version [5]). [1] http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunn_%28band%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunn_%28band%29 [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Djdi6z0m8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Djdi6z0m8 [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buA_xDQQg74 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buA_xDQQg74 [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1OYn_xGzM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1OYn_xGzM
lolcraft 13y ago
Minor detail someone might not know: a part of the Inception soundtrack (which is also great ambient) was made with that technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkQ0C4qDvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkQ0C4qDvM Those who have seen the movie and its plot device will know why this is a brilliant idea on so many levels.
cududa 13y ago
Just curious - what is your disdain for pop music?

cfolgar 13y ago

Interesting. I've seen a few similar submissions here that play ambient/focus music. To me, a product or service like this has to provide enough goodies to sway me from the convenience of a simple Spotify playlist, seeing as that is the go-to choice for many. If you can strike a balance between creating helpful productivity customization and keeping it simple, something like this could really takeoff.

healsjnr1 13y ago

Board of Canada. Need I say more?

amouat 13y ago
An extra s would be nice - Boards of Canada ;) Nice to hear a Scottish band getting a shout though.
- partomniscient 13y ago
  Indeed. For those that aren't aware, their new album just came out a few days ago as well.

healsjnr1 13y ago

Board of Canada. Need I say more?

deepvibrations 13y ago

For me it's all about headphones with a good bass response and a bit of deep dubstep :) http://www.youtube.com/deepervibrations http://www.youtube.com/deepervibrations

fhd2 13y ago

Have been using this for about two months now. Never really listened to music while working before, for some reason it always ended up distracting me (the kind of music I like anyway). But with this, I can actually concentrate just fine. Can't really tell if it helps, but at least it's nice music that doesn't get in the way, good enough for me :)

antoncohen 13y ago

Coffitivity works well for me, it's not music, it's ambient noise http://www.coffitivity.com/ http://www.coffitivity.com/

akhilravidas 13y ago
+1 for coffitivity, I never imagined that a noise like this will help me focus until I started using it a few months back
swah 13y ago
But... isn't this exactly like the sound I'm trying to block (coworkers talking!) ? :) [edit] I just read on their page that their theory is "It's pretty hard to be creative in a quiet space". So while I like the "hotel lobbby" feel for some kinds of work, I disagree that silence is bad. OTOH, this might work for me because I can't parse engilsh that well.
- antoncohen 13y ago
  No, coworkers walking is distracting because I can hear and understand what they are saying. My mind gets interested and will try to listen. For me it's the same with music that has pronounced lyrics.
  - swah 13y ago
    Right, so the point is that there is enough people talking at the same time that it becomes noise..
igravious 13y ago
This made me fall asleep.

DiabloD3 13y ago

I'd like to recommend BlueMars as well, http://bluemars.org/ http://bluemars.org/ Although I wish the guy running it would add more music.

jsingleton 13y ago

http://www.radioparadise.com http://www.radioparadise.com is pretty good for easy listening

jcfrei 13y ago

I've realized that it doesn't matter so much what I listen to but rather how much. The more often I hear a song / album whilst working the better it helps me to focus. For a while now this has been pink floyds pulse concert from 1994.

georgemcbay 13y ago
For me, songs without lyrics work best, doesn't matter if it is classical or instrumental techno like Nine Inch Nail's "Ghosts". Songs with vocals that I've heard a lot are better than songs with vocals that I've never heard before, presumably because my brain isn't trying as hard to process the words as it would be if I hadn't heard them as much... but songs with no vocals at all are the best for focus, IME.

dbcooper 13y ago

The mixes from Non-Collective are pretty good too. http://noncollective.com/ http://noncollective.com/

adamors 13y ago

Noise, modal jazz. Anything with a simple pattern is distracting.

jwr 13y ago

Be careful. Music engages your creative hemisphere. This doesn't matter much if what you're doing is a simple, repetitive task. But if you're trying to design or program, it might kill your ability to "think outside the box" and invent creative solutions. In my case, listening to music while programming has a very pronounced effect: I will spend 30 minutes crafting a function that will do something. The function will eventually work. And then I will stop listening to music and several minutes later notice that the function was entirely unnecessary, because I can make an architectural or data structure change instead and avoid writing the function altogether. This is something I am unable to do while listening to music. Once I noticed this, I started being careful: I'd listen to music while configuring routers, but not when planning and designing the changes. You get the idea. So, before you start listening to music while working, I'd advise you to check if your brain works the same way (the effect might not be exactly the same for everyone). These days I mostly use natural sounds (the Naturespace app for iOS is great) and good headphones to mute background noise.

LatvjuAvs 13y ago
Same, by working with something I am familiar with and have almost mechanical memory, no problems listening any music. That includes working on coding, but I have done it before. By creating "new/bespoke" functionality, then I have to switch off music. To read complex document and make my own judgement I need to switch off music. And same problem applies with office work noise.
throwaway183 13y ago
Music engages your creative hemisphere. Do you have a source for this?
- jwr 13y ago
  This precise statement is easily verified (just google it). But I thought I had a source for the "listening to music hampers your creative ability" statement, and I can't seem to find it. You could reason that if you engage the brain with something, then it cannot do another thing at the same time. So if you engage the areas responsible for creative thought processes, these areas will not be available for other tasks. Obviously this might not be the same for everyone, I'm just cautioning people and urging everyone to do some testing. Another example is that many people (including myself) can't dictate, for the same reasons. In my case, whenever I use dictation, I later go back and re-read what I wrote and it is always disappointing. It seems the areas of my brain that process speech are also needed to form thoughts into sentences and I just can't do both well.

ashutoshm 13y ago

Yo-Yo Ma - Bach, Cello Suites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHzfD6XLK7Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHzfD6XLK7Q

QuantumGood 13y ago

In spotify, the "Exam Study Classical Music…" playlist is good to know: http://open.spotify.com/user/127564522/playlist/0CwzkFXVbEK6VJO3Rzo7lX http://open.spotify.com/user/127564522/playlist/0CwzkFXVbEK6...

buster 13y ago

Doesn't work for me, i can't concentrate with this music.. I'm not sure if this will even work for a broader range or people because music is so much subjective.. For me it totally depends on the mood what music i can work best with, but usually it's some electronic house music where i can concentrate best.

INTPenis 13y ago

I like the idea but right now I have no connectivity on this app. So far I've been using raining.fm because chamber music sometimes slows down and quiets so I can hear my co-workers. My goal is to shut out what everyone is saying, but not the fact that they're talking. So far raining.fm has been perfect, but the only small downside is that when you take the headphones off it feels like you stepped out of a space shuttle or something.

antihero 13y ago

I've always found myself to be most productive when listening to repetitive electronic music - it motivates but also doesn't distract you too much. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUAAVUKk6Fc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUAAVUKk6Fc - it's rather seedy and excellent in it's own right. Two Lone Swordsmen is okay, too. Another good one is soundtracks - personally I like futuristic stuff (Deus Ex: HR soundtrack, or Mass Effect, or Person of Interest), as they are designed not to detract from the point of focus. Lastly, luvstep/liquid dubstep type things are quite vapid but listen-able.

tripzilch 13y ago
> I've always found myself to be most productive when listening to repetitive electronic music - it motivates but also doesn't distract you too much. Yup, goa-trance for me :) Music with a lot of lyrics is most distracting to me, though I've found it also depends on the particular way the vocals are mixed/mastered, on some albums they're much harder to ignore than others. Lyrics in my native tongue (Dutch) are hardest to ignore, but even music in a foreign language I don't understand at all (say, the xxx rottweiler hundar, Icelandic hiphop) is more distracting than something (almost) purely instrumental.
- angersock 13y ago
  If you like goa and whatnot, these folks have some good free tracks scattered across different electronic genres: http://www.ektoplazm.com/ http://www.ektoplazm.com/
  - tripzilch 13y ago
    Thanks, I am already aware :) Two recent finds on that site I've been listening to a lot are Mindsphere - Inner Cyclone (old school melodic goa) and Pavel Svimba - Space Babuska (real crazy, poppy psy, reminds of Haltya, some great mixing/mastering, way too distracting for this thread though :) ). This site shows that it is in fact possible to offer great quality music online for free & legal download. I'm frankly amazed actually, just how it can be. These producers must love their craft so much.

oceanician 13y ago

This works great for me if not used too frequently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0EgzJ0KGxg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0EgzJ0KGxg Wish there was a 8 hour version!

jrnkntl 13y ago

To each his/her own music needed to concentrate. The ambient sounds help me to get stuff done in the mornings, as a wake up :) During long coding-nights I'd rather go for Tech-house livesets that can be found all over soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tags/tech-house https://soundcloud.com/tags/tech-house

khalidmbajwa 13y ago

I somehow find techno and trans music to be quite distracting, this playlist however is an absolute godsend. "http://8tracks.com/tachedroof/the-only-study-mix-you-will-ever-need-pt-1" http://8tracks.com/tachedroof/the-only-study-mix-you-will-ev... Comprised of classical music scores from some of the best movies, it creates the perfect ambience for coding, which stays out of your way, yet soothes and calms you while enhancing your productivity. Can't get enough of this mix.

philbarr 13y ago
You mean: http://8tracks.com/tachedroof/the-only-study-mix-you-will-ever-need-pt-1 http://8tracks.com/tachedroof/the-only-study-mix-you-will-ev... The quote got included in your link

pepr 13y ago

"... two out of three of people like to listen to music while they work, study or read but it’s difficult to find and manage music that consistently works well for this purpose." Precisely! I like to listen to ambient music when working and constantly trying to find new music for this purpose is quite a hassle.

bonjourmr 13y ago
last.fm is great for this. Type in an artist/genre you like and for the next few hours while you work, you will discover plenty of new ones as their radio service works by molding a 'radio service' to your taste.
- jsingleton 13y ago
  I made a playlist generator application for Spotify a while ago that uses the last.fm API: http://unop.co.uk/dev/spotify-playlist-generator/ http://unop.co.uk/dev/spotify-playlist-generator/ I'd be interested to know if it works everywhere. It still works in the UK. EDIT: Source code: https://github.com/jpsingleton/Spotify-Playlist-Generator https://github.com/jpsingleton/Spotify-Playlist-Generator
- slhsen 13y ago
  Sadly, last.fm radio isn't available on most parts of the world anymore.
rednukleus 13y ago
Can you recommend a Top 5 ambient albums for working? EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions!
- slyall 13y ago
  Try Ambient Nights - http://www.ambient-nights.org/ http://www.ambient-nights.org/ About 60 album length mixes
- tuzemec 13y ago
  Recently found this guy: http://soundcloud.com/s1gnsofl1fe http://soundcloud.com/s1gnsofl1fe Pretty nice. Also the french label ultimae releases some amazing stuff: http://ultimae.com/ http://ultimae.com/

kcorbitt 13y ago

This is a great little service. I have a "concentrate" playlist in spotify that tries to fill this need with classical music, but I listen to it in the background so much that even with a fairly long playlist I get tired of hearing the same songs. Will definitely be trying this out.

tdicola 13y ago

For concentrating, I'm a big fan of Brian Eno's ambient albums like Ambient 1: Music for Airports.

nreece 13y ago

The app layout is responsive and looks slick too. What framework (if any) did you use to build the UI?

biswajitsharma 13y ago
Apologies, Just in case there has been any confusion. I just came across the Service, Liked it, Shared it here. I am not involved in developing this service. I liked the fact that, there is a lot of science that has gone behind it.

soitgoes 13y ago

Nice service. When I'm coding Trance, mainly Armin van Buuren, works best for me.

niels 13y ago
Yep, Trance works for me as well. I use di.fm/trance.
gizzlon 13y ago
Same here, house is nice as well. You can fine a lot of 2 hours mixes on soundcloud as well as a state of trance on spotify
ek 13y ago
Yup, trance and house for me, definitely. Trance and house are like productivity crack. I listen to trance when I'm working and house when I'm working out.
jwdunne 13y ago
Agreed and same. I have a playlist on my phone for just trance which gets listened to whenever I'm working or even exercising. I noticed something really interesting - your pace adjusts to the beat. For example, I took my headphones off to take a call and I was in awe at the speed of the beat, which only 2 minutes ago sounded fairly regular and not as fast.
- jlengrand 13y ago
  Agreed. When I was working for my math exams, having to learn dozens of demonstrations by heart, I have a playlist composed of 6 hours of remixes of satisfaction, by Benni Benassi. Amazing how 6 hours can look like 30 minutes when you listen to the same, repititive music :).

JoshTriplett 13y ago

"It appears you have no connectivity."

wwwhizz 13y ago
I presume you are blocking Flash.
- Sujan 13y ago
  Nah, happens quite a lot after some time of play.

Nzen 13y ago

On the advice of coffitivity, I've turned to human environments for ambient noise. I've been blessed with library access to the BBC sound effects library. http://www.sound-ideas.com/sound-effects/bbc-41-60-cds-sound-effects-library.html http://www.sound-ideas.com/sound-effects/bbc-41-60-cds-sound... Some are the typical sfx fare, but the latter half is of city streets from around the world.

limmeau 13y ago
Have you tried Boodler, a soundscape generator? http://boodler.org/ http://boodler.org/
jimbosis 13y ago
SoundTransit http://turbulence.org/soundtransit/index.html http://turbulence.org/soundtransit/index.html has interesting field recordings all under the CC BY 2.0 license. If you "Book a Transit," it compiles an mp3 of several different field recordings, taking you from city to city. You can also search the database or just browse the collection.
- limmeau 13y ago
  The flight booking metaphor makes it very inviting to play around. Thanks for sharing. (Now if I could get Firefox for Android to download a .mp3 link to local SD card...)

theclothesthief 13y ago

Nice app but is the favicon a red tooth? This is bugging me more than it should.

thezilch 13y ago
No, https://www.focusatwill.com/favicon.ico https://www.focusatwill.com/favicon.ico

mellotron 13y ago

Boards of Canada pandora, gradually tuned for minor key ambient electronica. That's my work soundtrack of choice.

vixen99 13y ago

From Serse? I thought it was Handel.

gazrogers 13y ago
It is Handel. The Opera is Serse or Xerxes.

limmeau 13y ago

To concentrate, I use computer game soundtracks (e.g. from Humble Bundle; particularly the one with Eufloria and Waking Mars), and to drown out voices of coworkers whose volume dial got lost in the laundry, text-heavy music in a language I don't understand (alternating between Czech hip-hop and Finnish hummpa).

lloeki 13y ago
I regularly the Fez soundtrack by Disasterpeace, and musicforprogramming();[0] has quite a few ones (esp. 06 and 08) that "just work" with my brain and make me zoom right into the zone in seconds. Also, This Binary Universe by BT. [0]: http://musicforprogramming.net/?c=manifesto http://musicforprogramming.net/?c=manifesto
- DiabloD3 13y ago
  Yay for musicforprogramming. I listen to their mixes quite frequently. I wish they'd do a 24 hour mix that omitts vocals and sharp sounds altogether, that'd pretty much be the best ambient music I could imagine.
rmrfrmrf 13y ago
Agreed. (The Sims 1 Build Mode Tracks/Skyrim OST/Skyrim Atmospheres CD) + RainyMood. Done and Done.

jechen 13y ago

"We are not an entertainment company – we are a productivity tool company. We provide a new additional service you use to get stuff done better." Yes! This is exactly the kind of music service I've been looking for when I'm working.

larrykubin 13y ago

Explosions in the Sky is my go to for this.

iMark 13y ago

I'm deeply in love with Zoe Keating's work. She's a cellist who composes and records her own music, building compositions using a looper. It's beautiful stuff, and I find it perfect for coding.

p0nce 13y ago

I use 25-min "pomodoro" mixes from there http://tech.no.com/ http://tech.no.com/

boothead 13y ago
Nice, thanks for sharing!
- p0nce 13y ago
  Also progressive house mixes from https://soundcloud.com/cid-inc https://soundcloud.com/cid-inc and https://soundcloud.com/mystic-mind https://soundcloud.com/mystic-mind

hdra 13y ago

Dubstep and trance music usually do the job for me

scotty79 13y ago

I think that music just tricks my brain into thinking that what I'm doing is cool though it almost never is.

dakimov 13y ago

I did not get how they handle intellectual property.

kaonashi 13y ago

I need something that my brain isn't going to try to follow along with, like late 60's/early 70's jazz.

revorad 13y ago

Loving the Up Tempo channel this morning. Nice work.

5555624 13y ago

I tend to go with 12 Girls Band or movie soundtracks (Morricone, Horner, Williams).

gburnett 13y ago

Thanks for posting this. Silence is preferable to music but music is preferable to other voices.

jafaku 13y ago

Doesn't work. I click on the buttons and nothing happens.

b0rsuk 13y ago

I noticed a while ago that some music needs active listening[1], while other kinds[2] don't distract me. 1 - Rock, various kinds of progressive music, anything with nontrivial melody 2 - ambient, more monotonous music, music with uniform volume I'd love to say I've started dividing my music collection according to this criteria - but I've been too lazy so far. Sorry about that. I'll try once again.

brixon 13y ago

It's different for everyone and you should try out different things. For me, a 2 disc collection of Willie Nelson helps the most since it is a moderate tempo and I have heard it so many times that it is not distracting. Also, when the 2 CDs are done, I know that I should stand up and stretch.

b0rsuk 13y ago

Once upon a time Red Alert (1), one of first RTS games, won Game Music of the Year award from multiple magazines. I was initially a bit puzzled by it: there's nothing in the music that immediately jumps at you as great. It's nice, it resembles Nine Inch Nails in some places, that's it. But then I noticed I can listen to it for extended lengths of time without problem. It's relatively subtle, and it grows on you. It doesn't resemble the "epic" movie-style soundtracks that are so common these days. And I guess that's the point... ? Game music, especially in replayable games like RTS, need to be good in the long run or it inevitably ends up being turned off in game settings. "Epic" music makes good first impression, and in trailers, but it's short-sighted in the long run. I'm arguing along these lines on Age of Wonders 3 forums (upcoming fantasy TBS game similar to Heroes of Might and Magic), but without success.

pyre 13y ago
Slight off-topic, but reminded me of this: http://dustincurtis.com/how-mr-q-manufactured-emotion.html http://dustincurtis.com/how-mr-q-manufactured-emotion.html
angersock 13y ago
The SimCity4 soundtrack is really awesome for just hacking away at things. I think that the Red Alert soundtrack is one of the best "get shit done" albums I've had in my box for a while, even with the amazingly cheesy synths and 90s style. The Descent and System Shock 2 soundtracks were very much in this vein (SS1 was procedurally generated, so it's hit or miss). I think the big trick is that game music is meant to get you thinking and active, but not distract you.
- b0rsuk 13y ago
  Red Alert 1 amazingly cheesy ? Really ? Frank Klepacki - "Mechanical Man" (C&C 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap6QaDBZJwM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap6QaDBZJwM C&C 1 tracks had vocals unit they figured out it conflicted with the announcer.

eggsyntax 13y ago

I've had really good luck with certain kinds of minimalist music. In particular, Simeon Ten Holt's "Canto Ostinato" seems to actively help me focus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDCsOL2vBJc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDCsOL2vBJc Most performances are well over an hour, so a nice little side benefit is that you don't have to spend much time picking and changing music.

Aqueous 13y ago

Music to let you concatenate.

crazygringo 13y ago

Wow. This seems like a great and interesting product... But it also seems like the kind of thing any programmer with a decent music collection could throw together as an MVP in a couple of weekends (ignoring music distribution rights, of course). But it's got quite the large team of people behind it -- I'm very curious to see if this can monetize well. It just seems like such a "niche" product -- like it should be just another channel on Pandora, instead of a whole company in its own right. Seeing that margins on music streaming are generally already so low, I wish I could see their monetization strategy...

cpeterso 13y ago

I like listening to rain or even white (or pink or brown) noise: http://www.rainymood.com/ http://www.rainymood.com/ http://whitenoisemeditation.bandcamp.com/ http://whitenoisemeditation.bandcamp.com/

lectrick 13y ago

I feel bad for people who can't tolerate this sort of music but wordless energetic-yet-repetitive techno/trance/dubstep/etc seems to work great for me

frankydp 13y ago

http://www.getworkdonemusic.com/ http://www.getworkdonemusic.com/ Link was posted on here a while back but is still the go to solution for me. Pretty well curated list of trance style stuff. Also has a fast and slow option.

hoytie 13y ago

I have a "music for programming" spotify playlist for anyone interested: http://open.spotify.com/user/thoyt/playlist/2AUYxFDAi6MdOPtgOdcCxF http://open.spotify.com/user/thoyt/playlist/2AUYxFDAi6MdOPtg... I tend to think I do my best work in silence, but for repetitive or boring tasks it's great to have a lovely soundtrack.

ChikkaChiChi 13y ago

The best sound to help me concentrate would be some sort of ultrasonic repellent to keep people out of my office (unless absolutely necessary, of course!)

devindotcom 13y ago

I'm a little confused (though the service looks nice and works well). Do people not have their own music they prefer to listen to, or a dozen other ways to stream customized channels?

rob-alarcon 13y ago

I was just testing the site like at 10:00AM and I just realize that I have been listening and coding with the "Up Tempo" station for about 40 min. This is nice.

codereflection 13y ago

The service looks awesome, will definitely be trying it out. Also I love how the comments on this post have provided a plethora of new places to find music. Thanks everyone.

kvcrawford 13y ago

I'm a big fan of electronic music and the craft of DJing, and my favorite type of music to listen to while coding is UK Bass and its various subgenres. For this, I get my fix from the online "pirate-style" radio station, http://sub.fm http://sub.fm, which has live DJs and an IRC chatroom where you can chat with the DJ and other fans. It's really great. Note that this type of music is different from more mainstream (and American) dubstep—it has a deeper, more ambient quality to it. Great coding music. Recently, I've also discovered a similar radio station for ambient music: http://stillstream.com/ http://stillstream.com/

orthecreedence 13y ago

I like DroneZone from SomaFM. It's my go to music for loud neighbors or lots of distracting noise. Very calming and allows me to concentrate.

azsromej 13y ago

A really nice site for pink noise (and fans, traffic, babbling, airplane cabins, waterfalls, rivers) is http://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php http://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php The creator is a signal processing engineer.