This is in response to the post on /r/music linking to a Spotify "programming playlist" that purports to give chill electronic music for programming. There seems to be pretty widespread consensus that vocal-less, slightly repetitive music is the best for concentration as rock/vocal music is too energetic and distracting. Classical music has similarly been hailed as perfect study/work music.
Which led itself to people rattling off how they have started listening to Ramstein or Mongolian throat metal while writing master code. Other sources claim movie soundtracks, nature sounds, video games music, and perhaps that bpm of 50-80 is what makes music concentration music (ill admit I dont have the foggiest idea what is the bpm of any music I listen to).
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Now why is there not more research on what kind of music can be classified as "concentration music"? I think it is because there just aren't people who have really thought about how to make music for concentration from different genres. I think it is actually more go a symptom of laziness on the researchers part: that the participants that listened to the "top 100 indie" or "top 100 metal" playlist did not perform as well as those that listened to electronic or classical, ergo those are the best genres for studying according to the results of a tightly controlled study.
I'll admit that in general, vocal music can be more distracting since it does give the brain one more thing to focus on, but this also implies that the reason classical music and electronic music are such strong choices for programming/concentration is because you can "tune them out" more effectively. Which then that begs the question if the point of programming music is just to tune it out, then why even listen to music at all?
The researchers in this article similarly state that classical and vocal-less music should be used if you do prefer to study with music. So if you are doing something code wise that is repetitive (say writing unit tests or integration scripts), you might be better served by listening to the aforementioned electronic/classical music just to make the process a tad more bearable.
I contend, however, that music to listen to while programming or doing a cognitively complex task or writing core functionality, should not just be there to help you endure, but actually contribute to your productivity. That the music should itself enhance the process. In short, I think that "concentration music" needs to become more prominent.
Well first, Concentration Music (CM) is deliberate. Yes, just like you cant accidentally strum random chords and drum sounds and bass notes with random words and expect to create a decent song, you must be deliberately putting music together that helps you concentrate. This generally means: pleasant to listen to, good flow, peaks and valleys, repetitive at points, but still with enough change ups in energy and style so as not to become monotonous. This can generally be more easily accomplished by sticking to a single genre, but using individual songs by different artists. Multi genre is definitely possible, but it just greatly expands the amount of effort to find songs that "flow". As one of the above articles stated, BPM may factor into this as well, but I have not really payed attention to it.
CM should be original. This might be the hardest part, but I think one thing people like about electronic/classical/vocal-less music is it is a bit easier to forget and some people find the familiarity of songs distracting. So yes, if you listen to the same 1 hour of CM music every week or even every month you will probably find yourself feeling restless during your coding as opposed to focused. Definitely listening to a variety of CM with music that is at most, semi-familiar, will likely reduce how distracted or dulled you are by what you are listening to.
The first thing you'll notice is both playlists are at just about 1 hr (the first exactly 1 hr, the second, 2 minutes short). You'll notice the first is electronic, and the second is rock. All the songs are in English, except for one song by La Femme. The musicians are all somewhat obscure (most songs in low millions of listens). The rock music is somewhat energetic, but not exactly power rock. Songs like Its Time to Take Up and Im the Man to Be, provide a quarter way change up to shift your mental track. You'll notice on the first playlist a song about Richard Dreyfus (again another change up inviting you to take a short pause). I also notice that first song from each playlist already breaks the 50-80 BPM rule stated above with the Chrome Sparks song being 143 BPM and the Caroline Rose song 85 BPM.
I would also hope if you listen to the first song of either playlist you are somewhat naturally drawn into the music. That is your mind should hopefully already be off to the races, both wandering at times, and then re-centering so that you can actually turn your free floating thoughts into something more concrete. Of course to fully test the effect would require you begin one of the playlists before starting a mentally demanding programing or working class, but I would be interested to see if anyone could give it a try and give their thoughts.
Finally, I wont claim that the above is the definitive music to make you productive, but I will claim that I have written some pretty damn good code while also having a very enjoyable programming session while working on some of the more complex problems at my job (which is creating a backend application with python, SQL and AWS for web scraping, dynamic filetype loading (e.g. excel, pdf, csv), and data warehouse management for millions of rows of collected data). I think we should be against the "tune out/background" type of music which currently has academic consensus and the best music for programming/mental tasks, and instead look for music that very actively engages in our brain so the music is not merrily a source of endorphins, but a source of inspiration itself.
Oftentimes a writer has to create the right mental conditions to wrestle with the blank page: this is a part of creating a personal work routine for yourself. The right music can set the right mood for your screenwriting and lead to greater productivity.
In my interview with writer-director Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Last Night in Soho), we discussed the important role music plays in his creative process. In addition to revealing he always writes to music and also creates specific playlists for specific projects, Wright gave his opinions on instrumental music vs. music with vocals:
There are many different types of instrumental music and subgenres: electronica (e.g., ambient electro, chillstep), classical (e.g., symphonic, sonatas), jazz (e.g., bebop, free jazz), fusion (e.g., funky fusion, progressive fusion), and even instrumental rock music (e.g., post-metal, drone metal).
As noted above, there are many different forms of instrumental music to choose from. I know a few writers who write to classical music, so that might likewise work for you (and many film scores are orchestrated and classical in nature).
Also, ambient and electronica music likewise has a cinematic quality. Tangerine Dream is probably best known for their music in classic 1980s films (Thief, Risky Business), but all of their studio albums from this period sound like movie scores: Force Majeure (1979) and Tangram (1980) being my favorites.
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That is the common thread between artists you would think would be disparate. From Nick Cave and Robert Glasper to The National, Brandi Carlile and Baby Rose, all of these artists delivered music with an authentic passion that defined the year in music in 2023.
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