Do you listen to music while reading?

Came here to say this

Sometimes, but only chill ambient music. Mostly I listen to Hammock or Stars of the Lid.

I can only listen to music that i'm really familiar with, otherwise I'm trying to analyse it the whole time.

I like to listen to audiobooks while I read sheet music.

i like listening to sigur ros while i read

My niggers.

I listen to this on repeat: youtube.com/watch?v=fnS6S3rX8BQ

Brekkek kekkek

yes, but no vocals. something like earth, some drone stuff, maybe post rock. stuff like that.

I find it too distracting, almost no matter what it is it makes me unable to concentrate on the book.

Molly is so qt

Her Canadian accent is so strong and she sounds so dumb

yes but only drone and ambient. I need the sound when I'm in noisy/distracting environments. I also find it good to read with ambient sound (spring and summer are great for that)

I find it hard to do much of anything that requires focus without the aid of music. I'm extremely easily distracted, and, even though music itself provides some distraction it allows me to block out the majority of the things that otherwise make me lose focus. A good music choice that doesn't detract too much from my focus makes it much easier to focus on whatever it is I'm reading than no music at all.

Ambient stuff usually, some soundtracks, minimalistic music. If I hear words it distracts me.

No, that's like watching a film and reading at the same time.

post you last.fm's i want to see what Veeky Forums listens to

last.fm/user/iwasbeingironic

I listen to classical piano music, Chopin, Field, Mozart, etc. Anything else is too distracting, especially if it has lyrics in a language I understand.

last.fm/user/rlaennec

I listen to classical/ambient when I read

anyone who posts something dissimilar to this deserves to be banned from Veeky Forums

I still don't understand the point of last.fm

I listen to 'Epic Gamer Dubstep' youtube mixes and nightcore

I like Bohren & Der Club of Gore and The Kilimandjaro Darkjazz Ensemble

youtube.com/watch?v=cTXJApVAsrE

no.

only simplynoise.com when faggots are loud

kek

Sometimes. I listen to Bathory while reading the Silmarillion since Quorthon and Tolkien drew inspiration from similar sources. Always think of Beren when listening Man of Iron

>Erik Satie's Gymnopedies
my nigga

I do the same.

It's attention whoring for hipsters.

>Your compatibility with RLaennec is Very High.

last.fm/user/keithtripley?utm_source=last.fm&utm_medium=application&utm_campaign=last.fm_desktop_application&utm_content=2.1.37&utm_term=WIN

No, I have the attention span of an adult and I enjoy reading.

When I'm reading, it's usually instrumental music that's playing. Reading in complete silence can get old after too long of a single session, so I make sure something fitting is playing in the background. Horror stories, creepy sci-fi, and the occasional suspenseful thriller or unsettling nonfiction book get suitably creepy music, like Godspeed You! Black Emperor's earlier stuff, The Haxan Cloak, Akira Yamaoka (the composer from Silent Hill), etc. My go-to for most books is either Boards of Canada or Akira Yamaoka, since their styles are so varied, almost every album has something fitting for almost any book.

If what I'm playing has lyrics, they either need to be incomprehensible, in a foreign language, or mixed so far into the background that they don't distract me from the book too much. Video game and movie soundtracks, ambient and electronic music, post-rock and post-metal, jpop, it's all good.

lately i've been playing some Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Besides that no. My music preferences are folk and bossanova, and it takes me off of my reading if i'm playing something, and im easily distracted as is.

No because I love 70s Funk and Soul music, which makes me jittery. I want to boogie instead of to brood.

No because I'm huge faggot and listen to ASMR. It relaxes my mind so I can read with more focus. Works well for writing as well.

thats because syrupsuckers are dumb

No matter how focussed you think you are, you are listening to the music, it may be distractive, it may limit your imagination and most importantly it may turn your reading into a rhythmic exercise. If you are too autistic to just read with no additional stimulus to stop yourself from sperging out, you should kindly end your existance.

which one are you

I only listen to music when I read on the train
Otherwise I get distracted by the train sounds :3

Listening to Chelsea Wolfe right now. Usually it's something droney or black metal, Drudkh, Batushka, Alcest or Bach.

nothing by the hack in your picture

do you read while listening to music?

Part of me wants to scream "bullshit" when listening to this.

Fucking gay.

this, also Chopin's nocturnes

last.fm/user/Goodsir555
good taste senpai

I just enjoy documenting what I listen to

My last.fm has my name in it and they won't let you change it

Feels bad

last.fm/user/eToThePiTimesI

>waah waaah I can't multitask and neither should anyone else, Thomas Edison was a witch and you should all be put to death waaah

I bet you hate ebooks and audiobooks, too, don't you

>chelsea wolfe
My dude, good taste there

Nice to see an answer that isn't just posturing Satie, Glass or Eno.

Keeping track of my tastes.

the only literary music is classical. if you don't exclusively listen to it then you are not Veeky Forums

DELETE THIS

Studies have shown that listening to music interrupts your flow of thoughts. If you have to listen to something, instrumental music was found to be the the least disruptive. No need for your infantile >waah arguments here.

you just have it on and it records what you listen to. its like good reads but for music

last.fm/user/ACMutd

No. Maybe if I'm re-reading something. Still, probably not.

Only time I read and listen to music is if I'm working on a paper.

Fuck off. Yes, it's better not to taint each with the other. But leave the moral shit out of it—don't be a prig.

last.fm/user/oggranak

more ascetic than aesthetic

forgive me for scrobbling so much Wilco. I didn't know any better. I was young. etc

I like discovering new things on it.

dafuq dis niqqa talkin bout

I'm into shoegaze, dreampop, singer-songwriter, lo-fi, noise-rock including:
Françoise Hardy, Coil, Death in June, Black Tambourine, Cocteau Twins, Spacemen 3, The Fauns, Candy Claws, My Bloody Valentine, Suicide, Velvet Underground

Check out my music taste: last.fm/user/laceratedllama

>I'm into shoegaze, dreampop, singer-songwriter, lo-fi, noise-rock

if I didn't know last.fm had written this for you I'd be rolling my eyes right now

It really depends on the music.
She's top music waifu. Too bad she'll die from heroin overdose soon.
last.fm/user/VivaVoxLegis
My lastfm for those who care.

denying your roots is the true sign of a pleb

>not listening to liszts transcendental etudes while reading
pleb pseud

you just spelled existence with an "a", please end your existance.

Maybe it's a self-selecting sample because only (presumably) attentionwhores posted their lastfms, but out of those, hardly anyone didn't have le Deadly Grasps in their top 10, and those that didn't, had some other /mu/ meme trash. And almost everyone had people with anime on their avatars posting shit you'd find in a random /v/ faggot's steam shoutbox. So that's what Veeky Forums is like, hm. Makes sense.

At least let me pretend the majority of people here aren't typical pubescent meme-teenagers from /v/ and /mu/.

holy shit never realized you can play koto that way.

/mu/ here. You niggers know that your aren't really capable of doing both at the same time, right? You hear music, but you are not analyzing it if your are focused on reading. And if you think otherwise you either have shit taste in music or in literature.

Go back to /mu/ faggot

You're going to think I'm lying... I hate music. It's just noise to me, and I don't know how anybody stands it.

You're just underage.

I usually play the same song on repeat for a book, and never play it anywhere else until I'm done with it.
Then, when I play the song after the book, my mind always links the two and I get the same feelings of when I was reading the book whenever I hear the song. It wears off after awhile, but I like doing it.

Yeah I listen to Juicy J when I'm playing DotA

go back to listen to bands with under 1,000 views on youtube you hipster

Why the fuck would you need to analyze the music? It just needs to sound good. Fuck off back to your skinny-jean boards.

I do exactly the same thing. We're probably autistic, you know.

>metal

>Jandek in top 3

>apologizes for listening to Wilco
>over 1000 Ellie Goulding scrobbles in last three months
>Madonna #1 all time
>listening to Taylor Swift right now

>Animal Collective
>69,282 plays

>Pitchfork

>Death Grips #1 past 365 days

>scrobbling since 6 days ago

And they say /mu/ has shit taste

A last.fm thread on lit? I'll bite

last.fm/user/zathorg

>last.fm/user/zathorg

you threw me for a loop there

>last year
>Lamb of God and System of a Down
>"I wonder what he listened to before that? Limp Bizkit?"
>Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, Xiu Xiu

yesssss

I either do Chopin, some HNW like Vomir, or, if I'm reading Sebald or someone similar, the Caretaker.

last.fm/user/JuniorB313
check it out guys :D

>implying there is anything wrong with Death Grips
>ignoring all my other highly patrician entries

m8

Any fucking child can enjoy some Bach and Philip Glass on the side while listening primarily to meme grips and "REALiTi"

You are not a patrician, you are a young internet-savvy male with average taste

Fuck no. Never ever.

last.fm/user/Tuberkulloosi

I listen to death grips on the side you lil cuckquean