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| Author: | Kirby [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Go Music |
This topic has undoubtably shown up on GD before, but since we are starting fresh, I thought I'd bring it up, again: What kind of music do you like to listen to while playing go? I'm currently a big fan of the Yoshida Brothers. I recommend you to check them out... Great music for when you're winning 
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| Author: | mdobbins [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
None. Anything outside of my mind is ignored while playing. |
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| Author: | mdobbins [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
The percussion of the stones is enough. |
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| Author: | kirkmc [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Schubert piano sonatas, Haydn symphonies, Brian Eno, or whatever else turns me on at the time. |
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| Author: | Solomon [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
It's not really "music", so to say, but I just put this on: http://www.rainymood.com/ I find it increases my Go to 2 stones! 
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| Author: | Dusk Eagle [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
Like mdobbins, I do not listen to music while playing Go. Though I have tried it a couple of times in the past to relax my Online Go Anxiety disorder. However, I'd have to turn it off as soon as the situation got interesting. |
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| Author: | topazg [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
Let me think, stuff I've been known to listen to is far too varied: Dire Straits Nightwish Chris de Burgh Meatloaf Dream Theater Led Zeppelin Kamelot Lionel Richie Stevie Wonder Queen Status Quo Jimi Hendrix Savage Garden Hans Zimmer soundtracks |
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| Author: | Loons [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
Any music that I know really well. Music I'm unfamiliar with is too distracting, I think. I sing along subconsciously and am always surprised when the albums finish because my attention's been eaten by go. But precisely what any music is right now; Journal for Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers Fashion Nugget - Cake Dookie - Greenday Word Salad - Fischer Z Songs of Love and Hate - Leonard Cohen (I only listen to music by the album) |
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| Author: | Perception [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
I like: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coheed and Cambria, Modest Mouse, Smashing Pumpkins, Dream Theater, Sublime, Tool, Nujabes, Miyavi, and many more although I don't usually listen to music while playing go. |
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| Author: | fwiffo [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
I usually don't listen to music while playing these days (if I do, it's something down-tempo like Massive Attack or Zero 7 or something). But when I was marching though the teen kyus I listened to Lamb a lot, so much so that I start recalling old games when I hear it. |
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| Author: | Phelan [ Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
Loons wrote: Any music that I know really well. Music I'm unfamiliar with is too distracting, I think. This. I have a playlist of uplifting songs that I like. Whenever I'm playing go online, I put it on. I can't concentrate in silence, always have to have something in the background, whether I'm playing go or studying. Edit: Cool, foobar2000 makes it easy to export it as text. Said playlist is: |
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| Author: | schultz [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
Dusk Eagle wrote: Like mdobbins, I do not listen to music while playing Go. Though I have tried it a couple of times in the past to relax my Online Go Anxiety disorder. However, I'd have to turn it off as soon as the situation got interesting. Same. When I'm really concentrating on something (like a game), music becomes a distraction for me. Unless it's some thing I've heard a thousand times before (and when I'm listening to that, it pretty much disappears into the background and I don't even notice it at all until I finally realize nothing is playing anymore  ).
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| Author: | tealeaf [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
After many years of fighting against it, I finally accepted that music was a distraction for me. I insisted to myself that it wasn't during my PhD, but it really does stop me from getting into work. (I sometimes find that I put music on, then get involved with something and have to turn it off.) Strangely enough, I have an hour-long mp3 of rain falling very similar to the link that Araban posted. I find it very helpful for shutting out the world without being a distraction. I discovered the plan after sharing a hotel room with my brother, who snores like you wouldn't believe, on his stag night. At 04:00, desperately trying to sleep, I remembered reading an article about the brain's ability to tune out random noise quite quickly. I turned on my laptop and piped `/dev/urandom > /dev/dsp` and shoved in my headphones. (For non-tech people that's "I pushed random data out to the soundcard, producing white noise.") It worked amazingly well. When I got home after that weekend, I realised that rain falling was a gentler equivalent to the same thing and tracked down an mp3. I can really advise it to anyone who likes to have something to shut out ambient noise, but finds music distracts them. |
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| Author: | CarlJung [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
I usually enjoy the silence. But sometimes I go for some Baroque music to block out other things and get me in an attentive/learning mode. |
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| Author: | lorill [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
tealeaf wrote: You might like this website then : http://simplynoise.com/ |
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| Author: | Chew Terr [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 7:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
Quiet background music that I know well helps. A few example songs: Broken Social Scene - Anthem for a 17-year-old girl Most things by Dispatch Built to Spill- Time Trap Most things by Stars The Mountain Goats Band of Horses et cetera While I like bands like Airborne Toxic Event, most of their stuff is too high-energy to listen to unless I'm winning, which makes it kick in the grinning. |
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| Author: | rubin427 [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 7:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
I prefer silence. However, some time back the local club had a CD set up on repeat(for maybe 2 months). It was ambient music of someone playing a wooden flute - or similar instrument. Once every five minutes or so, a hawk or eagle would caw/screech. Maybe the way I am describing it, it sounds obnoxious, but really it got in your head and was very relaxing. Even describing it here is enough to get the music stuck in my head again - probobly for the entire day. |
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| Author: | tealeaf [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 7:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
At the club in York, which met in a very cool restaurant called El Piano, they used to have the Putumayo "Turkish Groove" album almost every week on loop. One of our Chinese players absolutely loved it, and would wordlessly sing along (particularly with track 3). It was actually quite sweet. When he left for China, we clubbed together and bought him the CD to take back with him. |
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| Author: | quantumf [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
Dark and melodic ambient music, e.g. Múm or ISAN Also alt.country, e.g. Bonnie Prince Billy, 16 Horsepower or Woven Hand |
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| Author: | kex [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Go Music |
I find music adds to stress if I want to concentrate. But if I needed something for go, it could be e.g. Miserere by Allegri. The Tallis scholars have made a nice CD with the aforementioned piece that I got a couple of weeks ago. |
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