musicForProgramming();
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 20:00 (6786/29)
Categories:
Music
musicForProgramming(); is a series of hour-long mix-tapes featuring music designed specifically to help you program. They're pretty intense and surprisingly soothing.
Through years of trial and error - skipping around internet radio stations, playing our entire music collections on shuffle, or just hammering single albums on repeat, we have found that the most effective music to aid prolonged periods of intense concentration tends to have a mixture of the following qualities:
Drones
Noise
Fuzz
Field recordings
Vague memories (Hypnagogia)
Textures without rhythm
Minor complex chords
Early music (Baroque, lute, harpsichord)
Very few drums or vocals
Synth arpeggios
Awesome
Walls of reverbMusic possessing these qualities can often provide just the right amount of interest to occupy the parts of your brain that would otherwise be left free to wander and lead to distraction during your work.
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