Sunday, February 15, 2015

Sunday Salon: Reading with music


Do you guys reading while listening to music? I do. Not always, but mostly when I am alone. I've realized over the years that I cannot concentrate if things are too quite and this applies both to when I am studying or just reading for pleasure.
 
Off course it cannot be any sound in the background. It all starts to when I used to live with my brothers, very noisy little fellas. They where always more active and loud that I ever was, so I got used to doing my homework or reading to their games and fights. When I first had to study with them around, the silence around was just distracting!
 
Now that I live with A, I don't always have music while I work or read, if he is in the room. Now, he is not loud, sometimes it will be just the sound of his keyboard. But today he had to go to the lab and I was trying to read and the house was so quite I just couldn't concentrate for more than a couple of lines... 

As I am writing this post I am listening to the Indie Rock post at Grooveshark. The only thing that I cannot use as background to read are podcasts. If the TV is on I can zone out and into my book or work; same if A is playing...well except when he plays Starcraft, the voice asking for minerals drives me crazy, even though our characters do something pretty similar when we are playing WoW and...oh wait, I just went out of topic, sorry, where was I? oh yeah, so I am listening to my music and even if songs that I love come up and usually I would start signing to them, they don't distract me. 

What is very interesting (to me at least) is that later, when I will revisit a certain book in my head it will pop up with the music I was listening too and I love this type of fusion of senses, don't you?

Tell me about your reading, do you need music or complete silence? any music in particular?
 
Listening to: The Only Thing I Know by Gotye

8 comments:

  1. I commented earlier but comment got lost. Trying again...I do listen to music while reading, but for me, it has to be instrumental or mostly instrumental. Music with words distract me from the words on the page. If I listen to music while reading, it almost always has to be electronic music.

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    1. It does that sometimes, I will have to check the code of my comment section. If I am reading nonfiction I do have to go with instrumental. Thanks for dropping by :)

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  2. YES! Carolina you get me! I have Spotify on almost constantly while reading. Even now while I'm reading blogs! Silence unnerves me, though I am hoping to get more used to it in the next few weeks as I take time out to meditate daily.

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    1. Oh but you can still meditate with music, I have a "yoga" mix, mostly instrumental that just relaxes me in seconds!

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  3. I don't like to read with music, because I tend to listen to the lyrics and that distracts me so much haha. Sometimes though I do like low volume music in the background, a classic like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, etc is always great. Makes me feel like I am on vacation!

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  4. Oh I can totally get that feeling with those two magnificent voices!

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  5. I usually read with complete silence, but even then I can't always concentrate. I've tried reading while listening to classical music and that seem to make me concentrate more!

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    1. Some background music might be the key for really getting into some books :D

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