What music do you listen to while working?

Depends on the mood, i don't listen to anything specific. It can range from classic music, trace, rock, pop 70's, 80s, jazz, 50s, it really depends on the creativity and task.
Here are some

http://youtu.be/MDAkIlZyWfw

http://youtu.be/Xt3QbYOSgbI

 

I've listened to so much stuff that listening to random Pandora stations is like watching re-runs.

Depends on what I'm doing though. Coding, design or logic stuff I prefer instrumental and classical... Level layouts, environments, etc probably more dubstep/glitchhop/electronic stuff... Regular art stuff I handle more rock/metal/big band/punk/alternative.

I find myself turning the music off or going with more quiet stuff like Yo-Yo Ma when I have to think hard, but crazier, loud, random stuff when its just regular design/art.

 

I listen to music that fits the level I am making in question, or type of game...

I love ambient medieval music that can effect emotions from happy to sad, to heroic..
I know it's odd, but it makes me feel in the mood.

Like rap, how the freak is that even considered music?
Rap = Crap. A friggin 6 year old can do it, slap on a few beats on Fruity Loops and record your voice, oooo so hard.

but I prefer what I said above, the music that fits the type of game I am making, but ultimately, I prefer Traditional Violin music, as that's my favorite instrument, that and the Armenian Duduk.

I love the Instruments our ancestors played, so much emotion filled in the music of them times.

Wish there was a radio station for ancient music lol.

 

generally movie soundtracks, ambient and new age.

 

I prefer somewhat new-age music, space music, native american, but also like instrumental guitar or other such 'tinkly dinkly' stuff... to get into more of a meditative, relaxed state, which I feel puts me more in touch with inspiration.

 

Eve Online soundtrack:

Sometimes chillstep:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-DCKo6g07dtJJhjbkJtXA
and some film music on spotify.

 

Yaz, Erasure, Information Society, OMD when programming. It has to be something bleepy and boppy and buzz ping doop boom. If I don't know the lyrics like the back of my hand it's too distracting to code to.

Kylesa, Sleep, Skinny Puppy, Pigface, Psychic TV, Swans, Pearl Jam, Neil Diamond, etc. when doing art. Really anything that's heavier or deeper and reminds me of how much I used to like tripping.

 

The Beatles, Iron Maiden, Baroque, Zappa, Carlos Montoya, Julian Bream's Guitarra and other flashy classical styled acoustic guitar (not John Williams..please), classical piano like Hungarian Rhapsody, things akin to Mussorsky's Night On Bald Mountain..no driveling, moaning, washes of new age crap..it just get's me pissed. I need to respect the musicianship or out the window and silence occurs. Rap will make me want to punch the idiot who thought it was appropriate to play it in my presence. Hip hop? Gimme a frikkin' break and learn how to play at least three chords. Dub step?? WTF..for dance..yeah..if you think dance is like being jerked on marionette strings but a puppeteer in the throes of a grand mal epileptic seizure. I turned off the radio in 1990 when they started the pissing, whining and moaning in rock and metal. My son turned me on to John Zorn and I knew the boys from Mastodon when they were drywall and house painter guys. I can listen to them.

 

I don't want to get distracted by good music, so I'm either in silence or if that's getting old I'll listen to a selection of music I'm considering for my game.

I usually find listening to the game music to be inspiring, but I don't let it loop.

 

I typically listen to Blackmill's album, Miracle, because it's really calm but somehow upbeat at the same time (Blackmill is often referred to as "chillstep"). Occasionally though I'll listen to Queen Sea Big Shark (Chinese Electro band).

 

Game music for certain (Skyward Sword, FF7, Mega Man, as of right now), as it helps set the tone for my creativity, and brings me to that place in the game I was playing at the time, being excited and all. I also throw on some meditation/relaxation type music, like David & Steve Gordon, Johnathan Goldman, Steve Halpern, ect. Usually save my regular music for another time, but occasionally pop it on when I'm bored of the music I've been on. Always my favorites though, stuff like Incubus, Jeff Buckley, The Police, Radiohead ect. Anything I deem as being unique, creative, expirmental, and inspiring.

 

MixCloud.com

Long sets of mixes in almost any genre.

Personally I like to listen to Trance or Techno when working. I don't really want to be hearing words or singing as this often interrupts my thought process.

 

Almost exactly this, except I could let it loop for a whole day... it's almost a total brainwash of pure immersion or a total silence for weeks....

 

Autechre
Luke Vibert
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Aphex Twin
Aleksi Perala
Grizzly Bear
Squarepusher
Voivod
MrBungle/Tomahawk

 

Disturbed, 3 Doors Down, Ozzy, Iron Maiden, KISS, AC/DC actually many different artists. It's not so much the groups like listening to full albums as it is the individual tunes themselves. Just a couple tunes from here, a few from that one, etc. I like "energetic" tunes the most but occassionally throw in some slower stuff. Honestly lately the background noise I listen to most often is the tv because I develop while watching movies or sy fy or tonight it will be WWE Monday Night Raw.

 

Mostly, I like the sound of silence. Whenever I'm programming, I get hyper-focused and find that if I put an album on, the album will suddenly be over without me having noticed a second of it.

I will admit to occasionally playing the Hackers soundtrack while programming.

 

I normally listen to rock/indie stuff but when I work I listen to some EDM playlists. No lyrics http://grooveshark.com/#!/emmagician/broadcast

 

Almost strictly Pearl Jam

 

I listen to the Crusader Kings 2 soundtrack, I can't work when there are lyrics in the songs.

 

Drum and Bass. Most of it is instrumental and high tempo, plus there's a huge variety of it on Pandora (I guess since it's relatively easy to produce?). Silence can work very well for me too though.

 

God of War series soundtrack
Prince of Persia series soundtrack
Classic indian ragga
Violin
Space related music
Enya
gregorian chant
two step from hell
classic Bengali and Assamese songs

 

I listen to In futurum, on repeat, all day every day.

 

I listen to a variety of stuff:

* Red hot chilli peppers
* Green day
* Nickelback
* Deadmau5
* Hilltop hoods
* Daft punk
* Blink 182
* Eminem
* Skrillex
* Zomboy

... And the list goes on.

 

iheart radio - Full Metal Jackie or KUSC.org - Classical music

 

Here are some track I'm enjoying right now (tonight, as I program)
Krusseldorf - Soe Doe (give it a shot)
Ghost in the Shell OST - Torukira
Bonobo - Cirrus

 

I listen to the cries of my enemies.

 

Coding - Crystal Method
Art/UI - BBC panel comedy/history books/Sarah Vowell
Modeling/3d - scifi books (Red Planet Blues right now)
VFX - trance/classical/movie scores (lot of this right now)
General dev - Netflix
Meetings - Benny Hill theme song on loop in my head

 

I like listening to classical music when it comes to work.
Richard Wagner - The Valkyrie: Ride of the Valkyries
Jules Massenet - Thais: Meditation
Georges Bizet - Carmen Suite No.2: Habanera
Charles Gounod - Ave Maria
Ludwig van Beethoven - Egmont, Op.84: Overture

 

Most of the time soundtracks without any vocals.

Examples:
- Dexter Soundtrack by Daniel Licht
- Silent Hill Soundtracks by Akira Yamaoka and Daniel Licht
- Korean movie soundtracks like the one from Oldboy (2003) and other movies starring Choi Min Sik

I really enjoy classical music... I love four seasons by Vivaldi!

 

Depends ... Mostly Movie Soundtracks (Insterstellar) or GameSoudtracks (Turrican, Starfox from SNES, Super Meat Boy) to Chiptunes on YouTube. Sometimes IndieRock or Metal (Chevelle, Sick Puppies, Crossfade, Rammstein ....). All across the board and sometimes even thematically to what I am currently designing. For instance the Alien soundtrack while designing creatures.

Though it doesn't always work for me. Despite listening to music quite a lot silence actually makes me more focused and clearer. Still: sometimes I just need music to get something going.

 

Ups, am I the only one listening to no music at all?
Can´t concentrate with music.
Damn, am I too old (almost 40)?

 

none lol its to distracting

 

Not that often, but it's mainly classical music, either on my computer or from RTE Lyric FM.

 

For me Accel World/Ghost In the Shell OSTs works best. They get me pumped to code and in the result I'm coding incredibly fast.

 

Nothing gets me more pumped up to work out more than Billy Ray Cyrus. I just plug in don't break my heart and put that sh!t on repeat and let it blast

 

Depends on the current task and how much I need to concentrate. Very rarely anything with lyrics. Mostly instrumental metal, epic/cinematic soundtracks and game soundtracks.

 

When I am programming something easy or creating terrains, I tend to go dub step / drum and bass.
When I am coding "systems" / bug fixes I tend to play classical or calm music.
If I do something which I have a time frame on or something I really need to focus on I need silence.
if I write dialogue / story related things I favor epic orchestral music , like two steps from hell.
if its just general work placing stuff , testing things prototyping stuff I need some form of indie rock/pop

 

Wow, surprises me that so many people use music.

I generally just have the hum of my CPU fan. Maybe kids screaming in the background. At the moment I can hear a clock ticking.

Generally when I'm working on something my head is full of code and systems and algorithms. Music tends to distract from that.

Occasionally if I'm really tired and frustrated I'll turn on some music as a distraction. This tends to be a result of working with people more then working with code.

And of course I use music for dancing. That's what its there for right? Music for dancing and romance, the sound of my own thoughts for cold hard logic.