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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoI have an internal monologue.
(I say this because this is apparently somewhat uncommon)
Music with lyrics tends to make it more difficult for me to focus on my own thoughts, whereas music without lyrics tends to be much more effective at helping me focus on my own thoughts.
Of course, some music without lyrics is… just too jarring or loud in some way… but whenever a song has lyrics, those lyrics are basically taking up the same … memory channel, bandwidth lane, as my own thought process.
Same with any background conversation, actual people, TV, whatever, doesn’t matter.
Human voices throw off, to some extent, my ability to literally think through a complex process.
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This makes sense. I notoriously don’t pay attention to lyrics in songs normally, so that doesn’t interfere with my concentration.
You got any playlist that help you concentrate?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Unfortunately no, I don’t have a playlist that I could share or recommend in good faith, not at the moment.
But if you mean more generally, just, what do I listen to, to help concentrate?
Hrm.
Various chiptuny, melodic beep bloopy music… sometimes things with rolling or constant bass or drum lines or something… ‘Conga Fury’ by Juno Reactor, ‘One of These Days’ by Pink Floyd, or ‘Tick of the Clock’ by the Chromatics…
But, sometimes much more laid back and chill stuff, lounge background music type stuff, ambient electronica, Boards of Canada type stuff…
Sometimes various classical songs.
Sometimes literally Mongolian throat singing, which I guess does not register to my brain as speech.
It depends on my mood, lol.
And also the … level of instensity of what I’m trying to do, whether or not its very physical, very mental, or both.
Going even further, a decade ago now, I actually tried to see if I could find some kind of actual… threshold, where my brain, or I, whatever, can’t really decide if its ‘vocals’ or not, in terms of 'does this mess with my ability to concentrate.
And that is how I ended up finding TOBACCO / Black Moth Super Rainbow.
… Nobody really sounds like them.
The way they make their sounds, you’d think its digital, but apparently its all analogue… they have a very strange way of … making, and then using, some kind of vocoder.
… I would basically describe the music as what a good LSD trip … sounds like.
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thanks, I’ve got some homework now!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Hope you find something you fancy!
Serinus@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Lindsey Stirling, lofi girl