Go Music

Kirby · #1

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

mdobbins · #2

None. Anything outside of my mind is ignored while playing.

mdobbins · #3

The percussion of the stones is enough.

kirkmc · #4

Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Schubert piano sonatas, Haydn symphonies, Brian Eno, or whatever else turns me on at the time.

Solomon · #5

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!

Dusk Eagle · #6

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.

topazg · #7

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

Loons · #8

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)

Perception · #9

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.

fwiffo · **#10**

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.

Phelan · **#11**

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:

schultz · **#12**

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

).

tealeaf · **#13**

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.

CarlJung · **#14**

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.

lorill · **#15**

tealeaf wrote:

You might like this website then :
http://simplynoise.com/

Chew Terr · **#16**

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.

rubin427 · **#17**

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.

tealeaf · **#18**

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.

quantumf · **#19**

Dark and melodic ambient music, e.g. Múm or ISAN

Also alt.country, e.g. Bonnie Prince Billy, 16 Horsepower or Woven Hand

kex · **#20**

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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