December Daily: writing music
Dec. 24th, 2014 02:42 pmHidden Virtues just taught me how to hook into the Teranerd network from home. Do you know what this means? This means that Friday can be a day without shoes!
(Hidden Virtues is my cubemate and trainer. She talks like the biggest slacker you ever met, while quietly doing more work than any three other people.)
Anyway. Ahem.
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ranalore asked: Do you write to music? If so, what makes a good writing soundtrack?
If I'm in control of my surroundings, I write to blissful silence, because I'm very easily distracted by sounds.
But if I'm in a coffee shop or something, I'll play music softly to drown out the sounds of other people's conversations. But because I'm easily distracted by sound, this music has to be either instrumental or in a language I don't understand. (And I mean I can't understand any of it. My Spanish fluency is such that if I lived in a Spanish-speaking country I'd probably get held back a year before being sent to kindergarten, but a song in Spanish is just familiar enough to distract me.)
My Working Music playlist is a weird selection -- Renaissance and baroque, 1950s jazz, bluegrass and roots music, African pop, folk in various languages. Here's a sample:
Carolina Chocolate Drops, "Snowden's Jig": Oliver Mtukudzi, "Pindurai Mambo"; Oni Wytars Ensemble, "Fa mi cantar l'amor"; Peter Knight, "Seven Dancers"; Baltimore Consort, "Newcastle"
(Hidden Virtues is my cubemate and trainer. She talks like the biggest slacker you ever met, while quietly doing more work than any three other people.)
Anyway. Ahem.
ranalore asked: Do you write to music? If so, what makes a good writing soundtrack?If I'm in control of my surroundings, I write to blissful silence, because I'm very easily distracted by sounds.
But if I'm in a coffee shop or something, I'll play music softly to drown out the sounds of other people's conversations. But because I'm easily distracted by sound, this music has to be either instrumental or in a language I don't understand. (And I mean I can't understand any of it. My Spanish fluency is such that if I lived in a Spanish-speaking country I'd probably get held back a year before being sent to kindergarten, but a song in Spanish is just familiar enough to distract me.)
My Working Music playlist is a weird selection -- Renaissance and baroque, 1950s jazz, bluegrass and roots music, African pop, folk in various languages. Here's a sample:
Carolina Chocolate Drops, "Snowden's Jig": Oliver Mtukudzi, "Pindurai Mambo"; Oni Wytars Ensemble, "Fa mi cantar l'amor"; Peter Knight, "Seven Dancers"; Baltimore Consort, "Newcastle"