Music?
What do you listen to while making art? Do you guys find that you have specific types of tunes that will get you into the mood to bust out some sweet 3D? Would you rather be pumped up with some fast beats or do you enjoy slower melodies while you are working?
Personally I notice that I work better with more subtle tones and slower flowing music than with heavier and faster music that I find tends to compete with my brainwaves. Just wondering what you all find. Examples of bands/artists are appreciated
Personally I notice that I work better with more subtle tones and slower flowing music than with heavier and faster music that I find tends to compete with my brainwaves. Just wondering what you all find. Examples of bands/artists are appreciated
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It usually depends on my mood, and my mood lately has been a Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Einstürzende Neubauten mood.
The majority of the time I don't listen to any music.
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gnarls barkley
franz ferdinand
chili peppers
NIN
SOAD
Tool
...... what gets listened most, recently atleast. With a random selection of gigs upon gigs of crap way too long to list. Mellow, heavy, as long as its good i will zone out and lose myself in a trance as i smash my fingers away at the "Make art" button.
http://somafm.com/ Groove Salad is my weapon of choice. Listened to it all through college and still do today.
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i like to listen to thievery corporation, kruder and dorfmeister and so on..
otherwise it's my standard collection of songs which is quite eclectic.. Cradle of Filth to Utada Hikaru to the Metal Gear SOlid soundtracks.
i find it easier to zone out to black metal than somaFM Groove Salad o.O
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Usually a variety of metal. Maiden, In Flames, Green Carnation, Kamelot, etc... basically whatever feels good at the time.
Sometimes I like to listen to some classical or celtic stuff as well.
If I'm at school with buds and it's late and we're tired I throw on songs we all know so we can sing along and have some fun. (Rasputin, Bohemian Rhapsody, Come on Feel the Noize, etc...)
-DK =^..^=
I dig some industrial (NIN is my current favorite), techno (such as Prodigy, Fatboy Slim), or heavy metal (Static-X, In Flames, etc.) when I need to crank it.
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i love to listen to hardcore/metal when im crunching. one time i had to pull an all nighter because some client demanded their site be done by next day and hatebreed/bury your dead powered me through the night. by like 8am i was so pumped i felt like headbutting a tree
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YES. Christ that made my day. I lift to Hatebreed (In Flames mostly though, their new album pwn3d me) for this reason.
I'm curious: do any of you make your own music? I know there are some artist/coders, which blows me away (inspiring though), but I haven't heard of any musically-inclined artists.
I'm curious: do any of you make your own music? I know there are some artist/coders, which blows me away (inspiring though), but I haven't heard of any musically-inclined artists.
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Yup, I have one song up here, I'm playing the guitar and bass, the drums are from a loop CD so the song ends a bit weak because I didn't have a drum sample that went with it.
And some older stuff up here
I have a midi keyboard laying around that I've never used but I'm hoping to pick things back up pretty soon and maybe do my own percussion instead of depending on drum loops.
I was thinking of playing with GarageBand when I get a mac and see how that goes. No one really plays the kind of music I want
Audioslave - Revelations
Mr. Scruff - Trouser Jazz
Steely Dan - Aja
The Dear Hunter - The Lake South, The River North
I usually have a fairly varied range of music at my disposal when I'm working (got an iPod recently, I love it!), mostly I put one album on and leave it looping for a whole day or until I get bored (which sometimes takes more than a whole day!).
I tend to go through cycles of heavier to softer music, nearly always older rock or newer metal stuff, with some jazz, blues, chillout, classical, soundtrack and progressive instrumental music thrown in here and there.
As for making my own music, I've got hundreds of guitar riffs and licks written down and recorded, some covers of tracks recorded (mainly Joe Satriani ones), and a few hesitant starts at trying to record a full, good quality piece of instrumental music.
I have a few pieces I started recently that I'm quite happy with, but they're still just a ragged collection of chords, solos and bridges that aren't really refined or connected coherently.
I swear I'll post some up when I actually finish something to my own satisfaction (which will probably be never).
I know Rooster has a musical side, I've heard some of his oldschool electronic stuff and it's awesome!
been listening to a station made up of songs with "Goth Metal" tags the last few days. also Otep's Ghostflowers and an assortment of Evanescence and Trivium.
Rooster! You've been summoned. Man up!
Asherr, goth metal is fun every now and then, thanks for the band names, I'll check them out. Though I can't say I'm pleased with this "tiktak" stuff that's playin on your station atm..
Anyone know of any tribal house/techno along the lines of Juno Reactor?
Here is a list of some of the bands I listen to:
Killswitch Engage (fav band! woop woop), All That Remains, Lamb of God, Bury Your Dead, Hatebreed, Chimaira, Arch Enemy, It Dies Today, Norma Jean, As I Lay Dying, Trivium, Meshuggah, Machinehead, Demon Hunter, Disturbed, Breaking Benjamins, Throwdown, Pantera, Red hot chilli peppers, and Barry White
This is kinda biased towards bands that I usually put on shuffle, so slow songs from QOSTA-Nirvana-Radiohead, but there is my itunes playcount (notice the number of songs on the bottom also)
Currently on regular rotation:
Hardcore: 25 Ta Life, Casey Jones, Champion, Internal Affairs, Pro Team (local band), xWish for Wingsx (local band)
Metal/Metalcore: August Burns Red, Bury Your Dead, Lamb of God, Norther (Death Unlimited), On Broken Wings
Hip-Hop: Aesop Rock, Biz Markee, Q-Bert, Wu-Tang Clan
-caseyjones
Not long ago i went out at lunchtime to buy a CD i'd been waiting ages for, and attempted to listen to it at work. After a couple of hours i had to shout "look, i've got about 4 tracks in so far, will everyone just fuck off and let me listen to this CD".
If i DO get to listen properly to something at work, it's either (interchangeably) insanely loud and fast or extremely slow and quiet.
Alongside Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Freezepop, Supertramp, Metric, and Simon & Garfunkel. Sigur Ros is good too.
http://somafm.com/ Groove Salad is my weapon of choice. Listened to it all through college and still do today.
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I listen to secret agent station all the time
Mogwai
Sigur R
There you have it. Try to make sense of it, if you dare.
http://www.last.fm/user/moppius
Basically that's a record of my collected musical taste of the last few years.
If I listen to any music, it's normally some older indie rock. Karate has some great jazz-indie rock fusion music that gets me in a zone most of the time. The Dismemberment Plan is another great band.
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yea dude hear, hear. Karate is a great band. Really worth a listen.
otherwise im mainly stuck in som kinda hardcore/post hardcore genre at the moment. Alexisonfire is gg
I was doing a fair few late nights, and the wind down album of choice for the bus was the debut Adjagas album, a Norwegian Sami folk band. At night when trying to get a few hours done on dom war, it's been ipod time with either The Who, Brian Eno (Ambient for Airports), or the new Arcade Fre album.
Tonight I left my ipod on my desk, so no music - the missus has just gone to bed in the room next door.
Or I could plug in headphones since there is a pair beside me.
Anywho, here are my favourites: Smashing Pumpkins, Interpol, Postal Service, Mew, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Arcade Fire, Frou Frou, Madonna, Metric, David Bowie, Coldplay, Grandaddy, The Beach Boys, Jamiroquai, Gorillaz, Bright Eyes, The Cardigans.
All of them are awesome.
The Birthday Massacre
Atreyu
Buckethead - Jordan
that's what ive been listening to 99% of the time lately.
http://www.last.fm/user/snemmy
kinda offset cause ive had Gackt playing 24hrs a day the past 3 or 4 days on my laptop.
I have a pretty big collection of them so far ... i'd say probably over 50 now, maybe even around 70 and still growing, but good ones are becoming very hard to find.
There's also lots of interesting podcasts, like This american life, some of which is really great, and also KERA's Think podcast, thats pretty good too, and then there's the coast to coast radio, which for some strange reason has an audience of 90% extremely religious people, everyone who calls in is like a redneck from colorado or something trying to explain complex scientific theories with god... which is why i don't listen to that one anymore, but its still quite entertaining.
-caseyjones