What Kind Of Music Do You Listen When You Edit And Creating Art?

None, I usually just blank out whatever external sounds are in the background when editing. Usually the tv is going but I don't pay any attention to it.

Usually none or talk radio, (talk radio occupies the verbal centers of the brain allowing the creative side to come out.). If I do listen to music it's usually something on the soft side, like soft jazz or light rock.

Jazz, progressive Jazz, American Jazz for editing, Jazz and only Jazz. Silence for creating art. For downtime: American rock and roll (British Rock also), American Blues, American Rhythm and Blues and new American progressive such as Echosmith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMAzstG5O7E&list=RDkMAzstG5O7E&start_radio=1

I don't listen to music when making art.

It could also be asked to musicians, of what kind of Art do you look at when composing music?

I ALWAYS listen to music when I am doing my art. The music varies. I have eclectic taste!

Enomine, asp, deathstars and beethoven

Akos,

I can understand you listening to that. But it is not what I would call music. It's background noise (Wait! When did I ??? Dad? is that you? I thought you died!)

This older generation, I'm telling me!

There is a thread Spotify Music- what you playing? Started by Kip Krause that will give you examples of what people listen to.

Each to their own of course.

PLAU (two great songs, BTW)
UPD

Usually alternative,,such as XX, grouplove, st.vincent, bishop briggs, Silversun pickups, RA Ra Riot, broken bells, cold war kids,

then over to Cure, blondie, eurythmics, kansas, styx, metallica, led zeppelin ,

Akos,

On Pandora Radio, only Jack Johnson/Ben Foster station, good stuff and only interferes when I have to stop and sing along........

Rich

Many thanks for your answers, every generation has its own music theme, and it is good.

When I 'am thinking about that why I was borning to live a sporty & and artistic life,

then I was searching the answer for my question, who I am and what kind of music is telling me this

and why my soul tells me that I needed to live my life like an artistic man and why I must creating art every time.

With this music I found the answer for my question, let me introduce for you dear faa members :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpkWz_XZm5Y

Yahel & Infected Mushroom Live

It is a very hard one ...but if you listening the whole mix carefully, you can realize, that why you are a visual artist and why you are needed to make art.

Sometimes we must need to see the things in our lifes so differently, in a spiritual way,

King Regard,

Akos Horvath Fine Art Photographer & Visual Artist

http://akoshorvath.net/

Something which either stirs a mood - or reinforces a mood.

Those oh so low bass voices you find in Russian Orthodox music (Tschesnokov, Rachmaninov...) really get my creative juices flowing. John Taverner as well, and sometimes Arvo Paart.

Moody Jazz does it too - Kind of Blue by Miles Davis; Esbjorn Svensson, Peter Erskine, Jan Johansson... and Joni Mitchell's jazzier side. Van Morrison, Andy Bey, Kurt Elling..."Before The Frost - Linda's Theme" by Adam Norden...

Hi,

I listen to all sorts of music when I'm working on a work depending on my mood, I have very eclectic tastes but recently I've been listening to quite a bit of electronic music such as Jarre, Vangelis and Tangerine Dream etc.,. I find the trance-like music helps me along.

Best wishes

Leigh

if i'm not watching tv in the background.

it would be a mix of

industrial heavy metal by different artists
certain kinds of dubstep
swing or electro swing


---Mike Savad
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Planet Caravan type of stuff for the Electro Swing, Mike?


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i have caravan palace, the correspondents, parov stelar, retrolectro, the speakeasies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cnm0tdkJEU there is stuff from this guy, that turns rap and rock music into swing and jazz songs. its sort of a parody but its not.

---Mike Savad
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I never listen to music when editing my photos. That would be a total distraction. As a musician I try and keep my 2 main creative outlets separated, always If I were listening to music, then how could I stop myself from grabbing a harmonica and playing along? If I was playing harmonica how could I do photo editing?

simple solutions:

1. don't listen to harmonica music
2. wear a harmonica holder like one man band people wear. you can toot while you scoot.


i need music to focus or my mind wanders, but it can't be classical, it gives me a headache. it should be pounding, wall shaking, death metal kind of music.... but not screaming (some is screaming is ok). don't like cookie monster on acid either. it needs a beat, not a voice clearing session.


---Mike Savad
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psy is another (the arist)

also trance like 666, alien vampires, psilocibian, 1200 micrograms (most of their songs are about drugs), psysex, eskimo, along with some others. i have a pretty wide span of what i'll listen too, it really depends what my mind needs. trance doesn't work that well for certain kinds of editing. and it can't be a song where they keep switching left and right, that only hurts my brain.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Blues or Smooth Jazz

Right now I am listening to Bobby "Blue" Bland

for more info, see the interviews in "Our Arts Magazine"

Baroque and sunshine pop.

I often listen to Pandora - The Black Keys channel, which plays the likes of the White Stripes, Black Keys (obviously), and other more obscure blues type rock banks.

Nothing, silence preferably. I don't mind sounds of life, though -- kids playing, lawnmowers going in the distance, birds chirping, an occasional truck rumbling by. But no music.

Jeffrey,

Yes, the black keys AND White Stripes are on the Jack Johnso/Ben Foster channel!

Have you seen this video....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys2LKKfwTjU

Rich

I go to Spotify and lately it's been Empire of the Sun, NF, Silversun Pickups, Smashing Pumpkins :) Summer music.

@Rich - That looks very interesting. Thanks!

I listen to music when I am editing my photo's. As others have also stated I have a very eclectic taste in music and I am usually singing loud and hard at my monitor while doing it too. Just a very short list of who could come from my play list.
Blake Shelton
Fleetwood Mac
Journey
Lisa Loeb
Peter Gabriel
Mozart
Don Henley
Marc Cohen
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Kenny Wayne Shepard
Eminem
Hall and Oates
Yoyo Ma
Trisha Yearwood
Sara McLachlan
So many more, so many genres it is all about the piece of music not the artist or genre for me.

Cheers, Mike. (Glad you could read through my misnomer—"Planet Caravan" is a Black Sabbath song.)


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i never listened to that group, its just that there is a band called caravan palace, which is how i guess i read that.

---Mike Savad
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I usually have music around me. Working on my fine art photography is part of what I do so there is, of course, music.

Or, sometimes, I sing to myself. LOL I keep an old acoustic guitar on a stand next to my computer desk and often pick it up for a song or two. I do tunes by Credence Clearwater Revival, Gordon Lightfoot, Oak Ridge Boys, Jimmy Buffett (gimmee a break, we live at the beach), Bob Seger, Jim Croce, Johnny Cash, The Animals. Willie Nelson, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Dion, Van Morrison (and working on a few others).

I like "oldies" and often ask Alexa to play folk rock (or something similar) on Pandora. I also have several friends who are local musicians - and sometimes listen to their recordings (a couple have a Pandora channel).

My taste in music is very eclectic but while working on art I usually don't listen. I find music can inspire me but also be a distraction while trying to work.

Traffic, birds, water fountain and neighbors and sirens when I paint outside, but I'm not listening to any of it. I hear only silence.

Bill,

I sing along too but can become disruptive, so sometimes I'll play some of my Windam Hill stuff, mostly piano stuff, like "After the Rain" and some George Winston music. I have over 400 CD's that were part of the music collection for my studio, when clients came over, everything from Country to Rock to Chants. When shooting alone in the studio, "Romanza", by Andrea Bocelli was played.....loud!!! One of my most memorable moments, was out in Utah, Boulder Mountain actually, and up on top, watching a storm roll in and playing ROMANZA on the truck's Cd player, almost a religious experience!!!

Rich

I often listen to a station "Black Violin'' on Pandora...one of my favorites with creating

Birds, insects, frogs, waterfalls, wind, surf.... shutter....

Like Rich Franco - Jack loves stuff from Windham Hill!!! :))

Jack,

Yes, out of the 400 or so CD's, about 10% are Windham Hill. If you like Folk singers, I have a couple of great CD's from them and found a number of great Artists from each of the albums....

Lately it's been a lot of Kevin Kenney and Drivin N Cryin on Spotify

Music To Paint By Series... Guitarist Phil Keaggy

Moody Blues... great for creative ideas.

America... especially their older acoustic work.

Any great master of Symphony.

"i never listened to that group, its just that there is a band called caravan palace, which is how i guess i read that."

Me neither, before my time. Actually, not so much that because I do listen to some old stuff, I just don't really like Black Sabbath. I know of that track because Pantera covered it.


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i never cared for the old fashioned metal. ozzy and his era - never liked it. the guy is interesting, but the rest, meh.

---Mike Savad
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Streaming stations "Radio Paradise" and "HD Diner Radio" plus a lot of wildly varied playlists......might have anything and everything from Bach to Sam and Dave to The Rolling Stones to The Imagine Dragons on any one of em...

Somehow after seeing Series 2 Episode 9 of Handmaid's Tale, I just cannot stop playing "Consideration" by Rihanna/SZA!!!

https://youtu.be/GCyyNrdq1gg

I rarely feel the need for silence, so I listen to a LOT of different music (mostly rock and rock-ish but also classical/symphonic stuff), plus audiobooks, radio dramatizations, and ambient sound tracks.

For the last few weeks it's been my favorite band -- CNBLUE -- pretty much non-stop. I'm currently listening my way through their entire discography, back to front. At this very minute, it's their fantastic 2013 What Turns You On album.

In a couple of days I'll switch to suspenseful old radio shows, like these from the old 'CBS Mystery Theater' --
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbxN7DpldUJecaydTEvqB7uD4Iw_ttAzY

I also like to listen to my fave TV shows and movies; the ones I know almost by heart so don't have to actually look at them.

Much of my artwork is directly inspired by what I'm listening to at that moment, whether it be words or music.

My recent audiobooks - Corelli's Mandolin, One Summer: America 1927, The Magus...

I have some software named Natural Reader. I converted Moby Dick, Pride & Prejudice, Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy etc etc to audio. much more affordable than buying audiobooks :)

My husband is a musician, thus a music hoarder. I just hit shuffle in iTunes Remote and chances are I'll hear at least one thing I've never heard before, we've got it covered from Bach to Hole (unfortunately). On the brighter side, there's also a skip button.

Lords of Acid? Over my dead body. Skip.

Beastie Boys? Skip.

Madonna? Skip.

Dukes of Stratosphear? Uhh, who?

Damien Rice? Now we're talkin'!

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Hardstyle or a documentary about nature. Depends on the mood. I can concentrate better when doing two things at the same time ;-)

@Susan -- My Damien Rice routine:

Listen to 'O'.
Repeat.
Repeat.
Repeat.
Repeat . . .

Still one of my fave albums of all time!