Just for fun - What music do you listen to while reading novels?
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@piisfun go to this Wikipedia article and listen to some 10 second samples of various noise colors and decide for yourself.
Morning and Mourning sound alike for good and sufficient reasons.
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@jcochran Probably grey.
I was just wondering because I have seen these be used for "active sound barriers" around meeting rooms to prevent accidental overhearing. It requires one speaker on each side of a door to work.
Best comparisons I could come up with:
*TV static is white noise.
*Waterfalls are pink noise.
*A engine muffled by a thick wall is brown noise.
*Pneumatic air leaks are violet noise. -
I‘m listening mostly to Two Steps from Hell while reading my books. In my eyes it‘s the best music for it.😆
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Only the natural ringing in my ears. I haven't heard silence in decades. Music would be too distracting, I end up re-reading the same sentence over and over.
My bird does try to serenade me from time to time while reading though. Sadly he's not very good, his vocals are shrill, his cage-bar-guitar only has two notes, and I really wish I hadn't given him so many bells...
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I feel like I've lived the last 15 years with permanent music on my ears. For walking, for working, for waiting, for leisure, for reading, for getting to sleep faster, and for avoiding external sounds like traffic or partys. I hope I won't loose my ability to listen to music while doing other things like others did. However, I always only liked instrumental music like Anime or movie soundtracks or outright ambient. So, it's not like I listen to death metal on max volume all the time. Even some soundtracks are out, like the pieces by Sagisu Shirou or Sawano Hiroyuki. They are good for a time but too distracting for background sound.
Currently, for reading Ascendance of a Bookworm, I prefer fantasy or natural(?) sounding soundtracks like basically all OSTs by Keving Penkin (Made in Abyss, Tate no Yuusha), some by Ushio Kensuke (Boogiepop and Others, A Silent Voice, Liz to Aoi Tori, and also Devilman Crybaby but that is too distracting), or the Earth Girl Arjuna OST by Yoko Kanno.
What also always works for me are the very short music pieces by Simon Stalenhag (Island Tracks, Music for DOS, The Electric State). Some of them feel like they drop a note only every 10s or so but it still qualifies as music and creates an awesome atmosphere. -
J-music only when i read
