I've played guitar and bass for 15+ years, and I can't work without listening to music. Sometimes it feels like there is 20 voices in my head when working, like while trying to develop a report I'm constantly juggling the all thoughts of the queries, design, database updates, etc. Music makes my brain tend to focus on the task at hand.
Though I cannot listen to anything spoken word like podcasts or talk radio. Drives me absolutely nuts.
Re:Music for Programming (2011)
by mcqueenjordan on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:14PM
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I've played piano for 15 years, and I prefer listening to music. Although, some of my musician friends say it's more noise than music... https://whoami.sh/thought/flow-playlist
I can... not sure if I qualify as a serious musician, but reasonably so. My favourite for programming is Renaissance-era choral polyphony, but I'll listen to anything depending on mood!
I'd be curious to know if there are any serious musicians here who can concentrate on writing code or any other similarly mentally-intensive task while listening to music.