Do you listen to music while reading? What do you listen to?

For fiction yeah.
However, I'm not really comfortable with music while I'm reading non-fiction, as it takes away my concentration/dampens my thought process

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I don't listen to anything when I read, and the only thing I could see myself listening to is instrumental music cause otherwise I'd be distracted by the lyrics

Some really over the head scifi and space ambient is GOAT escapism.

Reading and listening to music is lame. I can only imagine writing to music.

Most ambient music is sufficiently non-entrusive to read along with, imo, and I find that it only adds to the general atmosphere. Different strokes for different folks, obviously, but here are some suggestions

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Yeah, if it works for you that's cool. But it just seems counter to my values of engaging with the art, either what you are reading or what you are listening to. It's like playing a video game while you watch a movie.

People's obsession with music gets very obnoxious after a while, I myself can't stand listening to music half the time when I'm on the bus or in a car with someone, not even counting reading. I prefer being able to hear myself think rather than having shit blare in my ears 24/7.

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I can't often concentrate on what i'm reading if there's music playing but i found that when i was reading the Tale of the Heike i was listenning to the Seven Samurai song (i was really into kurosawa) and it made the experience of imaginating the plight of the characters so much better

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People with headphones blaring all the time is just another symptom of the civilisational problem of overstimulation.
Our eyes are constantly under assault by smarthphones and videos with fast-switching frames, tastebuds overwhelmed with sweet/salty/fatty junkfood. Same thing with ears.
Problem is that the more stimulation you get, the more you want, until you become a complete dopamine-whore who can't concentrate for 10 seconds straight, only waiting for the next bout of hedonic pleasure.

Agreed.

Summed up my thoughts on it perfectly senpai.

i listen to the wind blowing against my patio door while im reading

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I did at a time but I stopped and no longer listen to anything. It's too distracting for me since I really like music.

I have tinnitus and reading without music is next to impossible. Mostly ambient music, soft electronic music and lofi hip hop beats.

do you guys focus solely on music when you want to listen to it like anyone would with a book? like the only thing you are focusing on is the music

Not always, but often. I listen to music attentively, it is very rewarding.

to add, I really love to listen to music as I stroll or look out a bus window or something, focusing on the music as it shapes the scene. I don't close my eyes, but this is less of a split of attention than reading and listening to music is imo.

music interferes with reading. maybe its ok if you're this guy otherwise u doing it wrong.

actually i take that back, if you have tinnitus you should be listening to white noise like a fan or furnace sound not music

In the same vein, do you guys think a 30 minute commute (an hour altogether and often longer) with music falls under the category of time to think for yourself?

Stars of the Lid, some aphex twin, oneohtrix point never, Brian eno, Tim hecker.

I don't understand the implication of that categorization.

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