Do you listen to music while you read Veeky Forums?

Honestly,

Besides my own doodling
and Chopin, Debussy and Bach

I really dislike all commercial music
It's really just like perfume, it's for atmosphere, but in the end you eventually want it to go away. That feeling when you've listened to a song a hundred times and the hundred and oneth time it's sounds trite, like a lovers body you've used up and now all that remains is this human being with flaws and no big deal. You lay there listening to this thing you enjoyed, like looking through old pictures, and begin to pick up things you didn't before. And at the door of language being waits to be let in.

I don't listen to any music while I'm reading. If a melody/rhythm/set of lyrics is worth listening to then it gets my full attention and if a passage/poem/etc is worth read it gets my full attention. I feel like people who try to do them simultaneously aren't getting the most out of either experience.

Beach House on low volume

Lo-fi hip hop (w/o lyrics)

>German Bit-pop
Sounds interesting. Can you give me some names?

if i need to drown out talking or distracting noises ill throw on merzbow. it's really harsh but it's so much of like an everything at once feel it eventually feels like nothing and you can tune it out and just focus on the text.

this. I put on that lo-fi youtube station and just sail nmean

It depends. When I do listen to music when I read, I want it to enhance the overall experience, not detract from the language. One of the best experiences I've ever had was reading Death in the Afternoon while listening to Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain. I imagine reading The Road while listening to GSY!BE's F#A#Infinity would also be pretty intense.

That said, there are some times where I need to just drown something/one out. In that case, pic related is a great album to read to.

bvdub
youtube.com/watch?v=T10Wk5RN7Hc
youtube.com/watch?v=I-0ekqxD1F8
youtube.com/watch?v=RbPoE6t3MN4
youtube.com/watch?v=ymXeNviCkug
youtube.com/watch?v=V8Vdwy4qeqU

I've genuinely listened to that "Low-Fi Hip Hop beats" stream on Youtube, while reading before.

An user told about an album in a thread like this. I'll repeat

Buyers Market

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I don't, unless there's some noise around me which prevents me from focusing. Then, I usually put on some quiet and repetitive music, preferable with a beat.
Couple of times I listened to traditional music of a region while reading about it and it was quite nice, but not when I'm reading something that I want or need to focus on.

Beethoven and Mozart

This. Music while I read is always out of place. I either don't pay attention to it because I'm too focused on the book, or I'm distracted by it as I read. When writing, however, I find that it has some sort of inspiring power.

Hoping someone else will enjoy this:
youtube.com/watch?v=ijoWEa1uacg

nujabes
youtube.com/watch?v=d0AvO0oBmUA

dj okawari
youtube.com/watch?v=pBV3xq9OQH0

Dark ambient is elder-god tier for reading.

Sleep Research Facility - Nostromo
William Basinski - A Shadow in Time
Lustmord - The Place Where the Black Stars Hang
Tim Hecker - Mirages

>underage

youtube.com/watch?v=hv0XXVfmQao

All those suggesting ambient ought to give this a listen if they havent already. Oppressive and dark. This album is like a dense cloud of vapors surrounding your every senses, if listened to with intent.

catchy

I like it too, but prefer mixes