What do you listen to while reading Veeky Forums?
Or should you not listen to music while reading?
What do you listen to while reading Veeky Forums?
Eli Brooks
Gavin Ross
I tried doing both for a while. Listening to music had me re-reading entire pages.
No good.
Henry Davis
I listen to dishes shattering on the ground in the other room and my parents yelling at each other again. :(
Wyatt Ross
Angel Edwards
Mostly no, but sometimes I put on some HNW or nocturnes if wherever I am is noisy. Also James Leyland Kirby stuff for Sebald.
Jonathan Gutierrez
Instrumental prog music only, anything else is too distracting.
Not listening to anything isn't an option most of the times, hearing the plèbes in the train kills my concentration
Jackson Powell
Prog like King Crimson?
You should try Robert Fripps Soundscapes
You too
Nathan Baker
da pigeon
bruuu bruuu bruuu bru
always ends with an abrupt bru.
Daniel Peterson
sometimes i'll listen to chopin, debussy or bach if it's too loud around me; anything else tends to be too distracting for me to concentrate
Samuel Hill
Yeah, except King Crimson isn't instrumental. I'm a big fan of the genre in general though.
I'll give it a listen. At the moment I'm really into God is an Astronaut, you should check it out, perfect for reading.
Jordan Lewis
>King Crimson isn't instrumental
nigga wut? more than half their shit involves no vocals
Easton Smith
Use paper/plastic plates.
True dat.
If I'm supposed to be concentrating white noise, or some slower and ambient, or dark jazz.
Jacob Allen
Irish punk and sea shanties.
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Brandon Rivera
>instrumental prog not distracting
nigger you are fucking loco
Dylan Edwards
Listening to music while reading is dumb, you're dividing your attention between two things that deserve your full attention for no reason.
I'll listen to white noise if it's loud and distracting around me, otherwise I'll listen to nothing. I use earplugs on occasion too, but I find them uncomfortable and prefer white noise wherever possible.
Cooper Powell
>more than half their shit involves no vocals
The other half has vocals. So it's not instrumental. That's the definition of instrumental user.
I'm not making a judgment of value, I'm just saying if there's vocals it's not instrumental.
I find it perfect for reading, as long as there aren't lyrics it's fine by me.
Luke Bell
>Listening to music while reading is dumb, you're dividing your attention between two things that deserve your full attention for no reason.
It's a sign of ADD/ADHD. It helps people drown out their thoughts so they can concentrate -- at least for me anyways.
Dylan Lewis
Josiah Moore
can confirm
t. ADHD
Brandon Torres
Nothing. Why on Earth would you listen to something while reading?
Dominic Green
To drown out the sound of brown people being loud in the train
Henry Phillips
Cameron Sanchez
Can we rangeban this guy
Noah Cox
thats a girl you moron
And whats wrong with the questions?
Isaac Harris
What's wrong with it is that he has been posting this same thread for months now
Grayson Martin
Usually listen to these guys while revisiting Catcher in the Rye and smoking scavenged butts out of my second hand briar pipe.
Ryan Reed
Welcome to Veeky Forums. Some people have been posting the same shit for years.
Brody Rogers
>reading anywhere but at home
What's the point of reading if you're not comfy while doing it?
Grayson Bell
So you're saying I should be watching TV instead while I'm on the train? Is that what you're saying? That I shouldn't read when I want to read? That reading isn't the best possible form of entertainment, and I should abstain from it most of the time?
Benjamin Evans
I like listening to classical music. It's a habit I developed as a study aid, back when I needed to study. Now it helps me focus on what I'm reading.
Jaxon Collins
I always pair either an appropriate movie score or classical arrrabgement depending on what book I'm reading.
Current example: I'm reading Andrew Smith's GRASSHOPPER JUNGLE and listening to Air's soundtrack to VIRGIN SUICIDES. Syncs very well desu
Ryder Cox
Movie soundtracks are often very nice for reading, agreed. I like Interstellar's for reading Sci fi