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    hmshood5
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        This may have popped up before, but I’m curious: do you listen to music while creating artwork? And if so, what kind?

        I always listen to Kraftwerk, Vangelis, Pink Floyd, Simon & Garfunkel… but most of all-Enya!

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        Aes
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            I listen to whatever happens to shut my head up enough to concentrate (yay ADHD). Mostly industrial metal, rock, alt stuff but also classical and other instrumentals, movie and game soundtracks, etc.

            I try to make “mood” playlists, but they always devolve into “whatever I want on repeat Right Now” lists instead ?

             

             

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            John humber
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                Most often it’s good old Radio 4 for me. When I do listen to music there’s no particular artist that dominates; it’s what takes my fancy scrolling through the Spotify playlists—might be some blues, might be The Who, or Dylan or a selection of tracks I remember from my youth.

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                justin
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                    I’m a great fan of listening to soft music. How about you?

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                    I tend to listen to instrumental, mainly film scores or trailer music — nothing with anyone singing, I get totally distracted by that.

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                    BeLing
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                        I can’t believe people actually listen to contemporary. . .do you call it rock? Actually sometimes I do, one day a week at work, where the other workers are much younger. The sound tracks usually have about 4-5 note tones. It goes from loud to louder. There is no cadence: they start and end exactly the same way. There are sometimes a variety of instruments or voice effects. If there’s singing or rapping, I can’t understand the words, which is probably a good thing. I’ve tried to study the form intellectually (!); I couldn’t paint with it.

                        Generally I just listen to ambient sounds of the environment. (My windows are always open.)

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                        Ohmo
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                            This is a popular issue on almost all message forums dealing with creativity.

                            My response is, “No.”

                            External stimulus breaks my concentration and reduces the quality and or lengthens the time required, of completing what I’m working on. However, when I’m in the zone, it takes a lot to interfere with my concertation, so background music is pretty useless and wastes electricity. When I listen to music, talk-radio, or podcasts, etc. I listen – I want to hear and absorb what I hear.

                            But, that’s me.  My bride of 40+ years can play a computer game, read a book, watch a movie on TV all while talking with family/friends on the phone. She married a guy who stubs his toes if he tries to chew gum and walk at the same time.  Good thing I don’t like gum!   ?

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                            Will Franecki
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                                Oh sure, music has always been with me when it comes to creating art. It is one of part that inspires me, I usually listen to acoustic music, baroque music or instrumentals music.

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                                The simple answer is that any or none of outside influence is appropriate.

                                Whether it be music, drugs, food, moods. It can all help, or hinder. It really is about what you make of it as an artist.

                                I think it is based around ‘framing’. Do you want to ‘frame’ with music, or do you want to ‘frame’ with silence, as an example. It really is about you as an individual, and I would suggest that too much thinking on this subject leads to curtailing your creativity.

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                                Funny that OP mentioned Enya – my high school art teacher played her pretty often, and I still sometimes use Enya when I want that particular mood.

                                My husband has made me five mix-CDs or playlists over the past twenty years, and lately I’ve been listening to those a lot while I paint. Makes me feel happy and groovy and safe.

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                                I don’t. Not because of anything artsy or sacred, but it’s a bit distracting to me nowadays. Sometimes I listen to people talking on YouTube if I’m in a bad mood, but no. I hum to myself often or do other things to concentrate but music doesn’t help that because then I want to listen to the music. ?

                                I enjoy watercolors and studying watercolors and getting tons of pigments and seeing their variations.

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                                March_Hare
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                                    Never I hate all kinds of distractions when I am working. I need to focus.

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                                    Beazy
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                                        Yep! Although I don’t really “listen” to it. The way I hear my music typically is to find new songs I like, replay them over and over, and from that list I draw from. I generally don’t like to draw with new music since my brain hasn’t processed it before and it can be distracting.

                                        Another reason I draw with music is because I hate, hate being in a quiet room. I don’t know why but I need something like a clock or music or even air conditioner making noise or I get stressed. I was also like this during my school years and I hated when the teacher made everyone quiet for tests. I need to have something loud to not focus on so then I can focus on my actual task if that makes sense? Anyway I’m rambling so I’ll leave it at this.

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                                        BeLing
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                                            Beazy, you remind me of the main character in the book Secret Lives by EF Benson.

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                                            I must listen to music, but it must be music that 1) I have never heard or 2) from a very happy time. Music, like scents, takes me immediately back to the time a moment happened and a lot of my life has been hard. I can only have positive energy around me when I paint. If I hear something that takes me down a bad path, it shows in my work.

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