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Do you 3D while listening to music?

LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,318
edited March 2015 in The Commons

1) Do you multi-task your brain with music while doing your 3D work?

2) Or are you razor focused in silence?

3) Or are the kids screaming?

4) Or are the neighbors fighting?

I do a bit of #1 and #4. I often put on the headphones in an attempt to block out the #4.

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  • RawArtRawArt Posts: 5,810
    edited December 1969

    The silence would leave me alone with my thoughts...and that is too scary for me, so I have music on while working.....or even watch tv or a movie (though often I dont even see the movie, because I am working and forget to look up)

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,664
    edited December 1969

    Number 2 many times, i like working in silence, it keeps me focused. I have 2 27inch monitors, so some times I will have netflix or Hulu running on one screen and have either DS, Poser or 3DSMax running on the other.

    I was a musician for 20+ yrs, so while I love music, it isn't a daily deal. I also have more older, than newer music in my playlist, so many songs remind me of experiences, some with those band members and that kind of reminiscing (glory days) takes my focus elsewhere.

    I kinda dislike neadphones, and only wear them when the GF is over and we are working on separate things.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,947
    edited December 1969

    My synthesizer and drum machine are plugged into my computer and I frequently have to create a noise to add to my videos, terrifies the cats esp if I use Mellody assistant virtual singer or worse sing into my USB mic.

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited December 1969

    No music.

    My problem with music is that I actually listen to the music part of the music. So this sounds terrible, but since I was a child I prefer classical and when I listen to that nothing else matters. So

    no music while I'm dazzing.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,318
    edited December 1969

    I have music playing almost all the time that the TV isn't on. Even when I'm reading I have music on low in the background. When I take a nap in the afternoon, the music is playing softly. I go to sleep at night with a flat speaker under my pillow turned down way low so that I can just barely hear it. Total silence makes it impossible for me to ignore the continual ringing in my ears. Without auditory stimuli it's like falling deeper and deeper into a dark well with the ringing at the bottom and the ringing gets louder and louder. But just the barest hint of real sound and I stop falling the ringing recedes back into the well into almost nothingness.

    I've grown up listening to music. In the early 50's as a 5 year old I had my own record player (78 RPM). At 10 I Started listening to classical music on the local radio station only 1 hour a week Sunday nights. Family got a stereo HiFi console system from Sears in the early 60s and we had our choice of $25 worth of LP records to go with it. I was allowed to pick them out and included one classical record (Shubert's "Unfinished Symphony"). During college in the late 60s I spent way too much on amplifier, turntable, headphones, and speakers leaving little left for records so I nearly wore out my half dozen that included Dvorak's "New World Symphony", the Shubert Unfinished, and several Simon and Garfunkel albums. I always used to study with Dvorak's New World playing through headphones over and over and over.

    Now I have a classical collection that would rival some radio stations and keep finding treasures by listening to classical radio stations (WNED out of Buffalo or WETA out of Washington, DC, or Sirius ch76). When I find something I like and don't have I get a craving for it and often order the CD through Amazon. However, In the months when money is tight I get a quick "purchasing fix" by buying 3 or 4 tunes for 99 cents or $1.29 from iTunes. Especially the classical pieces that are less than 10 minutes long and only have one movement.

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,631
    edited December 1969

    I watch/listen to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube or Blip critics and commentators, etc. pretty often while I work (today being the exception, this nasty cold has given me a headache that is exacerbated by loud noise). There are ambient noises where I live - ducks, other birds, distant trains or planes, occasionally sirens - but I don't have trouble tuning those out. Now that we're out of the apartment and in a house there's not close neighbors loudly agreeing with each other (if you catch my drift) or playing loud music or having loud children.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,318
    edited December 1969

    Spit said:
    No music.

    My problem with music is that I actually listen to the music part of the music. So this sounds terrible, but since I was a child I prefer classical and when I listen to that nothing else matters. So

    no music while I'm dazzing.

    I can ignore the music content easily enough when working. It just soothes me and keeps my tinnitus from bothering me. But when taking my nap, that's when I really hear the music and dissolve into it. Right up to the point where I fall asleep and wake up 45 minutes later.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,664
    edited December 1969

    SickleYield said:
    Now that we're out of the apartment and in a house there's not close neighbors loudly agreeing with each other (if you catch my drift) or playing loud music or having loud children.

    I had neighbors over the last year that fit this bill to a tee! I called the apt security on them 4 times to get the guy to either go inside and talk loudly on his cell or to stop his screaming brat from running around the balcony all 4 doors share. They finally moved, now it's all quiet.

  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,631
    edited December 1969

    FSMCDesigns said:
    SickleYield said:
    Now that we're out of the apartment and in a house there's not close neighbors loudly agreeing with each other (if you catch my drift) or playing loud music or having loud children.

    I had neighbors over the last year that fit this bill to a tee! I called the apt security on them 4 times to get the guy to either go inside and talk loudly on his cell or to stop his screaming brat from running around the balcony all 4 doors share. They finally moved, now it's all quiet.

    Different kind of agreement ("Yes! Yes!") but that, too. ;)

    And then there are the people who leave a very unhappy dog in their apartment all day while they're gone, and it barks and barks and barks. Here the less responsible dog owners let their dogs run free in the daytime. That's not good either, they poop in everyone's yard and knock over the trash, but at least they're not so miserable so they're quieter.

    Good neighbors are a blessing anywhere you live, but twice as much in an apartment!

  • ecoleenaecoleena Posts: 85
    edited March 2015

    hi !
    i multi-task my brain :coolsmile: with epic soundtracks in headphone while doing my 3D work ...
    it help me a lot to free my fantasy.

    good bye !

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  • FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,044
    edited December 1969

    I listen to this all the time http://www.radioswissjazz.ch/en

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    I have music playing almost all the time that the TV isn't on. Even when I'm reading I have music on low in the background. When I take a nap in the afternoon, the music is playing softly. I go to sleep at night with a flat speaker under my pillow turned down way low so that I can just barely hear it. Total silence makes it impossible for me to ignore the continual ringing in my ears. Without auditory stimuli it's like falling deeper and deeper into a dark well with the ringing at the bottom and the ringing gets louder and louder. But just the barest hint of real sound and I stop falling the ringing recedes back into the well into almost nothingness.

    I've grown up listening to music. In the early 50's as a 5 year old I had my own record player (78 RPM). At 10 I Started listening to classical music on the local radio station only 1 hour a week Sunday nights. Family got a stereo HiFi console system from Sears in the early 60s and we had our choice of $25 worth of LP records to go with it. I was allowed to pick them out and included one classical record (Shubert's "Unfinished Symphony"). During college in the late 60s I spent way too much on amplifier, turntable, headphones, and speakers leaving little left for records so I nearly wore out my half dozen that included Dvorak's "New World Symphony", the Shubert Unfinished, and several Simon and Garfunkel albums. I always used to study with Dvorak's New World playing through headphones over and over and over.

    Now I have a classical collection that would rival some radio stations and keep finding treasures by listening to classical radio stations (WNED out of Buffalo or WETA out of Washington, DC, or Sirius ch76). When I find something I like and don't have I get a craving for it and often order the CD through Amazon. However, In the months when money is tight I get a quick "purchasing fix" by buying 3 or 4 tunes for 99 cents or $1.29 from iTunes. Especially the classical pieces that are less than 10 minutes long and only have one movement.

    Heh. I bet you were familiar with the Nonesuch label, no?

  • FistyFisty Posts: 3,416
    edited December 1969

    I usually work to the sound of my husband playing video games next to me when I haven't pressed him into service helping me with projects. If he's not around I'll generally listen to game soundtracks, k-pop, or vocaloid music. Lyrics in English distract me too much.

  • j cadej cade Posts: 2,310
    edited December 1969

    I couldn't imagine working without music. I find its good for regulating my mood, feeling tired? listen to faster music. Need something calming to help concentrate? Something slower.

    I have a bunch of giant genre-spanning playlists (And by genre-spanning I mean I'm pretty sure I have a playlist that has both Purcell and the Fratellis on it)

    But my most common working music is Rameau, who is my favorite composer. His music is fantastically hummable, but also nice and baroque-ly metered (I don't know of a better way to phrase this. Because the beat is always so subdivided it feels faster to me).

    I also listen to a lot of bluegrass.

    And the Myst soundtracks. There fantastic if you don't want to get distracted as they're primarily ambient.

  • riftwitchriftwitch Posts: 1,405
    edited December 1969

    Yes, I usually have music playing when I'm doing things on the computer. Unless, I'm recording music...but then, I guess I'm still listening to it. ;-)

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    I generally listen to either music or twitch streamers.

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited December 1969

    Actually I do listen to music when I'm working....housework. Well, I used to, anyway. My favorite music to clean by was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. A little Beethoven's 7th symphony, too, 'the apotheosis of the dance'. I do love bluegrass as well. Bach and bluegrass even better. The first piece of music I got on the Kindle was Bach on the banjo. Really, it does exist and it's great.

  • DaWaterRatDaWaterRat Posts: 2,882
    edited December 1969

    I tend to have Netflix in the background too. First and foremost, my computer isn't robust enough to have my media player running while I'm working on a scene. After that, it's more because I'm lazy and the remote has a "Netflix" button rather than a "Pandora" button. :)

    I'll usually stream old 80's tv shows that I watched and enjoyed as a kid/teenager in their original run, so they're not particularly distracting.

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,083
    edited December 1969

    Spit said:

    Heh. I bet you were familiar with the Nonesuch label, no?

    Nonesuch, Vox, and the original Musical Heritage Society of the 60s and early 70s when they were commissioning works by Eastern European orchestras.

    I got hooked on classical music from the Saturday morning cartoons - so many buildings created or destroyed to Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. After all, both Columbia and Warner Brothers had studio orchestras on the payroll, and most of the music was in the public domain . . .

    And yes, I tend to run my own classical and pop mix while doing things at the computer. I've got an older system I use for watching tutorials, reading, scanning/ocr - and playing music. Keeps the load off the render system. :-)

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,378
    edited December 1969

    I have to start the first 30 minutes or so in silence. That goes for any type of work, whether it's "actual" work (IT), graphic rendering, or even just cleaning house.

    Once I get into a focused groove in silence, then adding music will accelerate whatever I'm doing. Weird.

  • Atticus BonesAtticus Bones Posts: 364
    edited March 2015

    Another classical listener here. Favorites include: Chopin, Bach, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Max Richter, Howard Shore. Silence when focused though.

    Spit said:
    My favorite music to clean by was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

    Rise is my jam!
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  • macleanmaclean Posts: 2,438
    edited December 1969

    No music when I'm working. I don't listen to music - I participate in it (I'm an ex-musician). So if I have any music on, I end up leaping from my chair and jumping round the room. LOL.

    I need silence to concentrate when I'm making products. Occasionally, I'll make an exception and maybe put on Brian Eno. I don't mind low ambient sounds.

    mac

  • Cayman StudiosCayman Studios Posts: 1,135
    edited December 1969

    maclean said:
    No music when I'm working. I don't listen to music - I participate in it (I'm an ex-musician). So if I have any music on, I end up leaping from my chair and jumping round the room. LOL.

    I need silence to concentrate when I'm making products. Occasionally, I'll make an exception and maybe put on Brian Eno. I don't mind low ambient sounds.

    mac

    The Windows starting up and shutting down music is by Brian Eno, I believe. So we all listen to him! :lol:

    I'm a silence man. And when I listen to music I only listen to music.

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,378
    edited December 1969

    Cayman said:
    The Windows starting up and shutting down music is by Brian Eno, I believe..

    Which version of Windows?
  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,609
    edited December 1969

    Sometimes I listen to music while I'm doing 3D but not always. And quite often I start off listening to an album but when the album finishes I can't be bothered to stop what I'm doing long enough to put on another one.

    When I was young I had a wind up 78 rpm gramophone and a few records to go with it. I think my parents bought it from a junk shop so I would play with it and keep off the family radiogram.

    Since then I've gone from a Dansette record player to the discount "hi fi" systems of the 70's with vinyl discs and cassettes to CDs, Minidiscs and MP3s. I even had a DCC player for a while, nice machine but it never caught on.

    Over the years I've bought a silly number of CDs, mostly a mixture of Classical, Progressive Rock, Folk Rock and just other Rock. And I'm quite annoyed that no-one makes hard drive based mp3 players any more, just those silly little flash memory things. I'm hoping my iPod classic keeps going for a long time.

  • Cayman StudiosCayman Studios Posts: 1,135
    edited December 1969

    Subtropic Pixel said:
    Cayman said:
    The Windows starting up and shutting down music is by Brian Eno, I believe..

    Which version of Windows?

    Ah. Yes. Well it seems he did the Windows 95 sound. But since then, I can't say. It looks like Robert Fripp had a hand in XP and Windows 7. Would DAZ Studio even run on Windows 95?

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,167
    edited December 1969

    does practicing Bowie tunes on the guitar while rendering count?

  • BarubaryBarubary Posts: 1,202
    edited December 1969

    Depends on my mood. Sometimes I work in absolute silence, especially if I get so focused on an idea, that I forget the world around me and realize after four hours that I neither moved an inch on my chair, nor drank anything nor went to the bathroom. In which case I usually have to rush to the bathroom, while drinking a glass of water and ignoring the horrible back pain ;D

    In other cases I listen to music, currently I'm in metal mood so it's Nightwish, Avantasia and Blind Guardian. Or I listen to something else entirely, like movies or tv shows or internet videos.

    You can tell it's one of my favorite movies or TV shows if I have no idea what happens in the frame but can speak the text along with the (voice)actors. Might be one reason why I like a lot of movies that are heavy on the voice-over. I'm looking at you, 'Casino'!

  • almahiedraalmahiedra Posts: 1,347
    edited March 2015

    LeatherGryphon said:
    1) Do you multi-task your brain with music while doing your 3D work?

    2) Or are you razor focused in silence?

    3) Or are the kids screaming?

    4) Or are the neighbors fighting?

    I do a bit of #1 and #4. I often put on the headphones in an attempt to block out the #4.


    For me #1, #3, and #4.5

    #1 definitively. Impossible without music. 80' & 90' rock and pop in english and of course spanish.
    In the west of Caracas #2 doesn't exist, some daws of workable days, maybe
    #4 change to #4.5: The music of the neighbors is/are louder than my music (louder than a concert too) + the neighbors are fighting/drinking beer + my relatives are seeing (heaaaaaaring!) the last action movie.

    Post edited by almahiedra on
  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    1) Do you multi-task your brain with music while doing your 3D work?

    2) Or are you razor focused in silence?

    3) Or are the kids screaming?

    4) Or are the neighbors fighting?

    I do a bit of #1 and #4. I often put on the headphones in an attempt to block out the #4.

    100% of the time I'm working on a 3D project I have my studio headphones on. No kids to speak of where I am, but the occasional #4 will make me up the volume. Urgh. :-S

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