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Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:09 pm
by Kirby
This topic has undoubtably shown up on GD before, but since we are starting fresh, I thought I'd bring it up, again: What kind of music do you like to listen to while playing go?
I'm currently a big fan of the Yoshida Brothers. I recommend you to check them out... Great music for when you're winning
Re: Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:12 pm
by mdobbins
None. Anything outside of my mind is ignored while playing.
Re: Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:13 pm
by mdobbins
The percussion of the stones is enough.
Re: Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:21 pm
by kirkmc
Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Schubert piano sonatas, Haydn symphonies, Brian Eno, or whatever else turns me on at the time.
Re: Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:25 pm
by Solomon
It's not really "music", so to say, but I just put this on:
http://www.rainymood.com/I find it increases my Go to 2 stones!
Re: Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:32 pm
by Dusk Eagle
Like mdobbins, I do not listen to music while playing Go. Though I have tried it a couple of times in the past to relax my Online Go Anxiety disorder. However, I'd have to turn it off as soon as the situation got interesting.
Re: Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:35 pm
by topazg
Let me think, stuff I've been known to listen to is far too varied:
Dire Straits
Nightwish
Chris de Burgh
Meatloaf
Dream Theater
Led Zeppelin
Kamelot
Lionel Richie
Stevie Wonder
Queen
Status Quo
Jimi Hendrix
Savage Garden
Hans Zimmer soundtracks
Re: Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:38 pm
by Loons
Any music that I know really well. Music I'm unfamiliar with is too distracting, I think. I sing along subconsciously and am always surprised when the albums finish because my attention's been eaten by go.
But precisely what any music is right now;
Journal for Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers
Fashion Nugget - Cake
Dookie - Greenday
Word Salad - Fischer Z
Songs of Love and Hate - Leonard Cohen
(I only listen to music by the album)
Re: Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:41 pm
by Perception
I like:
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Coheed and Cambria,
Modest Mouse,
Smashing Pumpkins,
Dream Theater,
Sublime,
Tool,
Nujabes,
Miyavi,
and many more although I don't usually listen to music while playing go.
Re: Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:44 pm
by fwiffo
I usually don't listen to music while playing these days (if I do, it's something down-tempo like Massive Attack or Zero 7 or something). But when I was marching though the teen kyus I listened to Lamb a lot, so much so that I start recalling old games when I hear it.
Re: Go Music
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:03 pm
by Phelan
Loons wrote:Any music that I know really well. Music I'm unfamiliar with is too distracting, I think.
This.
I have a playlist of uplifting songs that I like. Whenever I'm playing go online, I put it on.
I can't concentrate in silence, always have to have something in the background, whether I'm playing go or studying.
Edit: Cool, foobar2000 makes it easy to export it as text. Said playlist is:
Re: Go Music
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:46 am
by schultz
Dusk Eagle wrote:Like mdobbins, I do not listen to music while playing Go. Though I have tried it a couple of times in the past to relax my Online Go Anxiety disorder. However, I'd have to turn it off as soon as the situation got interesting.
Same. When I'm really concentrating on something (like a game), music becomes a distraction for me. Unless it's some thing I've heard a thousand times before (and when I'm listening to that, it pretty much disappears into the background and I don't even notice it at all until I finally realize nothing is playing anymore
).
Re: Go Music
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:01 am
by tealeaf
After many years of fighting against it, I finally accepted that music was a distraction for me. I insisted to myself that it wasn't during my PhD, but it really does stop me from getting into work. (I sometimes find that I put music on, then get involved with something and have to turn it off.) Strangely enough, I have an hour-long mp3 of rain falling very similar to the link that Araban posted. I find it very helpful for shutting out the world without being a distraction.
I discovered the plan after sharing a hotel room with my brother, who snores like you wouldn't believe, on his stag night. At 04:00, desperately trying to sleep, I remembered reading an article about the brain's ability to tune out random noise quite quickly. I turned on my laptop and piped `/dev/urandom > /dev/dsp` and shoved in my headphones. (For non-tech people that's "I pushed random data out to the soundcard, producing white noise.") It worked amazingly well. When I got home after that weekend, I realised that rain falling was a gentler equivalent to the same thing and tracked down an mp3.
I can really advise it to anyone who likes to have something to shut out ambient noise, but finds music distracts them.
Re: Go Music
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:14 am
by CarlJung
I usually enjoy the silence. But sometimes I go for some Baroque music to block out other things and get me in an attentive/learning mode.
Re: Go Music
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:35 am
by lorill
tealeaf wrote:
You might like this website then :
http://simplynoise.com/