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Points: 12654 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2015 at 10:43
Music and reading don't mix for me. Neither does TV and reading. Reading is reading and deserves full attention.
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Points: 18367 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2015 at 12:10
Well certainly TV and Reading don't mix. TV is so damn annoying in and of itself it hardly goes with anything. Plus it's a visual medium as much as an audio one so there's that.
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I like listening to music while reading peoples arguments about music on the PA forum.
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Indeed I can't concentrate on reading if the TV is on, even if it's something totally vacuous (which most TV is & I don't watch much TV myself anyway). however I find reading & listening to great music works fantastically well for me.
 
Right I have a lot to work through with the suggestions so far.
 
I've given Klaus Schulze a really good go & whilst his stuff does meet criteria "A" - good to listen to whilst reading, sadly (for me anyway) it doesn't meet my criteria "B" - good to listen to whilst not reading too as well.
 
I've given his stuff a decent go through youtube (Timewind, Mirage, X, some of the Dark side's...) Only Dark Side XI was really close to good listenable without reading.
 
Plus most of his stuff is quite hard to find & expensive.
 
I'll listen to some other suggestions next
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Lizards Exist a very short album and there's only one but excellent. More of that please...
I'm finding nothing on Amazon or Ebay
 
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You can't read to metal due to the head banging! Angry New age yes, metal no.
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

You can't read to metal due to the head banging! Angry New age yes, metal no.
If you're going to head-bang while reading I suggest using a paperback as opposed to a hardcover.Wink
 
 
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Originally posted by DeepBlack DeepBlack wrote:

Lizards Exist a very short album and there's only one but excellent. More of that please...
I'm finding nothing on Amazon or Ebay
 
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I like this one for reading/ learning etc.

Klaus Schulze's pieces like Nuff Said are OK too I think but e.g. while listenning to Timewind I can't concentrate on anything but the music Big smile
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Points: 18367 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2015 at 17:27
The musical equivalent of white noise. May as well just have a fan running Wink.
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I love to read with music playing in the background. However, it has to be instrumental, otherwise I end up listening to the lyrics and lose concentration. I tend not to listen to prog whilst listening though because it is too distracting in this context. So I put on one my Spotify playlists, usually a compilation of jazz by artists such as Miles Davis, Avishai Cohen, Branford Marsalis etc
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I like to listen to ambient or similar music, or none at all if I'm reading, otherwise I can't concentrate. Tangerine Dream or Klaus Schulze often works for me.
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I can't combine them Unhappy
If I'm lost in the book, I don't pay attention to the music...if I'm lost in the music, I don't pay attention to the book
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Music and reading don't mix for me. Neither does TV and reading. Reading is reading and deserves full attention.
 
agreed. On the other hand, listening to music and cooking?  Great combo.  Ditto music and driving.  Music and household chores, music and conversation, music and surfing the web, in fact music with everything but reading.
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Robert Rich sounds interesting (if such a word can be used for his style ;) )
 
Love the idea of 7-8 hours of music sleep too.
 
It's hard to know where to start with such an Artist though.
 
Filaments looks good, then there's Troubled Resting Place & Below Zero, and the "live" album Humidity.
 
Any advice?
 
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Found Soft Machine & Nucleus are quite fitting for reading & interesting enough (in the main) for listening in the car too :)
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Points: 7251 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2015 at 16:12
I write in the silence; and though I always associate a character with a music, a song or a singer. 
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Points: 472 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2015 at 01:54
Originally posted by infernalfrog infernalfrog wrote:

I used to read listening to Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner, Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba, and some Mike Oldfield instrumental suites (ommadawn, tubular bells, crisis, hergest ridge).


You listed some Cool or Bop Jazz, I recommend Gil Evans - His album "The Individualism Of Gil Evans" (1964) is one of his best with two original compositions co-written with Miles Davis-

When I read I usually listen to Debussy or New Age artists like Iasos and Constance Demby.

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Points: 45 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2015 at 17:35
ENO  Discrete Music

About as bland and un-involving as it gets
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Points: 2084 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 17 2015 at 07:20
To block out white noise and the usual city sounds, I've taken to putting on Bill Evans albums - both solo and trio - at a low enough volume that I don't focus on it but loud enough to drown the town.  I love Evans and understand why someone would want to give him full attention, but his stuff is so soothing and conducive to meditation.....and reading often gets to that level of focus. 
 
 
Couldn't imagine reading to Nucleus or Gil Evans....or Miles and Mingus, but Eno's Discreet Music or his Ambient series also does the trick.....but the volume level is key. 
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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