Do you listen to any music when you write?

[canadiancreed]

Something that I thought of as I create my next chapter, but I wonder if folks other than myself listen to any music or what not when they're writing. For example when I'm doing writing on my CK writeup, I'm usually trying to listen to Celtics music; I find it helps to put me in the mind frame odd as it is. Granted it's ahrd because I dont' have a lot of it (yet)

So how about you?

 

[Director]

We have an excellent program on our public radio station that blends jazz, New Age, world beat, trance and other cool stuff (it's called Radio Avalon, on WHIL in Mobile, AL). If you google it I think you can listen to it over the net from 8pm to midnight on weeknights.

 

[Mettermrck]

I listen to music as I proofread, to see if my words get me into the same mood as the music does. When I'm in the creative process of writing, I tend not to listen to music as it might get in the way.

 

[unmerged(11366)]

I always listen to music while on the internet, at Naxos. For $20 a year I get full access to about 3500 Naxos CDs, plus the labels Marco Polo, BIS, and Dacapo - which boils down to essentially all classical music ever written as well as a huge collection of world music. (Naxos licensed the soundtrack to HoI I and I think also Vicky; BIS provided the music in EUII.)

 

[unmerged(47288)]

Rock. Then again no one cares about me.

 

[CatKnight]

Anime, frightening as that is. I used to listen to classical and still enjoy it, but Anime offers the same advantages (either no words or words that I can't understand, since I don't speak Japanese) and a livelier beat for action scenes.

I listen to it when I play also. Again, EU2/CK' s music is well enough, but I like it.

 

[unmerged(51967)]

If i do, it's either orchestrael or in foreign tongue i don't know otherwise it gets too distracting to concentrate on writing.

 

[unmerged(47946)]

Usually I don't have much choice in the matter...

 

[Sir Humphrey]

I listen to the following online stations through winamp:

Name (listed under)
Groove Salad (Chillout)
Secret Agent: The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. (Chillout/Chill/Lounge/NuJazz)
Illinois Street Lounge (Lounge)
Sky Lounge: First Class Beats (Lounge)
Digitally Important Lounge (Lounge)

 

[EvilSanta]

Of course I listen to music when I write my MusicAAR but only that one particular song I am currently working at. After update is ready, I dont want to hear it for atleast 2 days. You kind of get bored to it when you listen to it over and over and try to get your lyrics to fit it.

But when writing normal AARs, I usually dont as it distracts me.

 

[unmerged(48100)]

Depends. I'm used to listen to music while sitting at the PC but sometimes I simply forget and it's not like I would listen to it anyway. Sometimes I even overhear one of my favourite songs of the album because I'm too concentrated on the matter and have to listen to it afterwards. It's really strange, but if I concentrate on something I can do it so far I lose contact to my surrounding.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

I always work in complete silence

 

[Sarmatia1871]

I always listen to music while on the internet, at Naxos. For $20 a year I get full access to about 3500 Naxos CDs, plus the labels Marco Polo, BIS, and Dacapo - which boils down to essentially all classical music ever written as well as a huge collection of world music. (Naxos licensed the soundtrack to HoI I and I think also Vicky; BIS provided the music in EUII.)

Wow, that looks great - may have to get this...

 

[unmerged(61606)]

I usually don't listen to music, but sometimes I do. Its just a random amalgamation of classical, movie soundtrack, and basically anything with no words.

 

[Zuckergußgebäck]

I usually find myself listeningt to Billy Bragg´s Internationale when writing. And I´m a conservative!

 

[stnylan]

I do listen to music when I write, but not when I proof-read. I find it too distracting for concentrating on typos. As for the writing, it really does depend what sort of mood I'm in. What it is I am actually writing is very much a secondary consideration. Usually its once of classical or heavy metal, though every so often other stuff creeps in. The piece of music I listen most often to when I am writing, however, is almost certainly Mozart's Requiem.

 

[coz1]

I don't normally listen to music when I write, though there were a few scenes in Into the West that I found easier to write when having something of that mood on in the background. But normally I find it too distracting, especially if it has words. They too often blend into what I am thinking in my mind and disrupt good word choice or phrasing.

 

[unmerged(35308)]

I don't normally listen to music when I write. Usually, it's just me, Microsoft Word, and Wikipedia. I have trouble enough writing at specific areas as it is, and I feel music would just distract me.

 

[dag231]

Depending on the mood I am in and what I am writing, music helps drown out the background noise and actually helps in the creative process by forcing your thoughts into what you are doing...

Light jazz or classical - anything without words, for me is usually the best background noise... while I love 102.1 The Edge (Toronto alternative radio station that just kicks ass), its not condusive towards concentration...

 

[unmerged(10971)]

When I had recommended listening in "The Trees of Autumn" and "God Save the CzAAR" I would listen to the pieces I recommended while I write. Most of the time, though, I don't--I just don't think about it, generally.