Do you listen to music when you draw? What music to listen to while you draw? Can music enhance your artistic creation?
I would like to think so...hope that any cool music to listen to while you draw would inspire.
Many e-mails I received ask me about do I listen to music while I draw.
Yes, 80% of the time and the other 20% is silent...depending on where I am.
And Specialists from the fields of music, neuroscience, psychology, and neurology describe advances in understanding the complex relationship between music and the brain. Intended for psychologists and neuroscientists, contributions address the origins of music, the musical mind, the neurons of music, musical brain substrates, musical expertise and brain plasticity, and the relation of music to other cognitive domains.
Listening to, in particular, classical and instrumental music, has recently been thought to enhance performance on cognitive tests. Contributors to this volume take a closer look at this assertion and their findings indicate that listening to any music that is personally enjoyable has positive effects on cognition. In addition, the use of music to enhance memory is explored and research suggests that musical recitation enhances the coding of information by activating neural networks in a more united and thus more optimal fashion.
-Source-ScienceDaily (June 22, 2006)
Here are the list of music I listen to while I am drawing: (I will keep add more to the list as I discover more cool stuff. :)
My favorite composers (These kind of music help me zone in from 0 to 100% within the matter of seconds, especially the heavy percussion ones. Give it a shot!)
-Hans Zimmer
The Dark Knight
Gladiator
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Last Samurai
Black Hawk Down
Mission: Impossible II
-Tyler Bates
300 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
-Danny Elfman
Wanted
Sleepy Hollow
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Hulk
Men in Black II
Planet of the Apes
Men in Black
Spider-Man 2
Mission Impossible
-John Williams
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: "Hedwig's Theme"
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Spider-Man 2
Raiders of the Lost Ark
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Schindler's List
Jaws: "Main Theme"
Superman: "Main Theme"
-Graeme Revell
Chronicles Of Riddick Soundtrack
The Crow
Freddy vs. Jason (2003) *Apparently I own it, and it's good.
Pitch Black
The Siege
-James Newton Howard
-The Devil's Advocate
-The Sixth Sense
-Unbreakable
-Collateral
-The Interpreter
-Atlantis
-King Kong
-Astraud Piazzola
-LiberTango
-Astrud Gilberto (Stan Getz)
I believe music can be an important inspiration component to infuse your certain element you want to convey (so does silent once in a while). You absorb tones and mostly what I listen to doesn't contain any lyrics because personally it can be distraction so the list of music provided here most of them doesn't have lyrics though some do...occasionally, but some I don't even know what they were talking about and that's good I think...I just absorb their energy and pass along thru my art if needed.
IF ANYONE HAS COOL RECOMMENDATION ABOUT WHAT TO LISTEN TO, FEEL FREE TO POST REPLY ON COMMENT THEN I WILL ADD THEM TO THE LIST.
LET'S BUILD THE MUSIC ARCHIVE FOR ARTIST. ;)
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**Also read their comment below there are some good tips and useful stuff there.
-Fable's OST
-Buddha Bar of Café Del Mar
-Jimi Hendrix (all of them!)
-Radiohead (Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac albums)
-Tool (Lateralus and 10,000 Days)
-Muse, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Coheed and Cambria.
-Chopin's Piano Concertos
-Zap Mama and other neo-soul music
-Blackalicious "Nia"
-The Grouch and Eligh "No More Greener Grasses"
-Living Legends
-Megadeth and Metallica
-Smashing Pumpkin listen here (The Beginning is the End is the Beginning)
-Wipeout 2097
-The Life Aquatic's
-Alice in Chain (Oh yeah!)
-System of the down
Sashsa - Invlover, Airdrawndagger
-Muffler - Sighco Show
-Black Sun Empire - Cruel and Unusual, Driving insane, Endangered species
-Hybrid - I choose Noise, Y4k, and Wide Angle
-Global Underground Electric Calm 1-4
-Random Rab - Elucidation of Sorrow and Epicycle
-Tipper - The Critical Path, Relish the through
- Lounge and Nu Jazz Cafe, similar to Buddah bar
*More to be added
Monday, August 18, 2008
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Most of the time I listen to Buddha Bar of Café Del Mar. But music from games can be nice to like Fable's OST or something.
Hmm... well Hendrix surely has to be up there, shouldn't need to say why.
A few more personal choices that I'd suggest to others: Radiohead, Tool, Muse, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Coheed and Cambria.
I highly recommend Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac albums, and Tool's Lateralus and 10,000 Days. I get completely lost in my work with these.
Also any classical piano music keeps my mind whirring (Chopin's Piano Concertos)
Needless to say I find music very helpful, especially when there's 20 other students buzzing around.
I used to listen to Zap Mama and other neo-soul music when I created, then by accident this summer I discovered that listening to underground "conscious" hip-hop helps me lose any nervousness or inhibitions. My work evolves more naturally.
I highly recommend:
-Blackalicious "Nia"
-The Grouch and Eligh "No More Greener Grasses"
-Living Legends
The production is smooth and catchy, and if you happen to catch part of a lyric,it's always something that makes you proud to be an artist.
Yeh , music that creates atmosphere really helps. Most of the music Xia has listed is music that needed to add to the atmosphere of a scene in a movie. like make you feel happy or sad. So logically that music will help get your mind into an atmosphere :D
Im a bit strange in music i listen to when drawing. Sometimes atmospheric like Dreamtheatre :D, other times i just listen to regular old metal like Megadeth and Metallica. :D.. But it helps to pick music that lends to your theme. E.g if you were drawing a dude fighting another in a knife fight and its really intense. you would want intense , possibly angry music :D
Knuckle>> Fable is awesome, now I have to find that Buddha Bar.
chris>> Hendrix is the MAN!!! Tool, Led-Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath are also high on my list (I am a metal head and industrial addicted)
Ano>> Nice good collection you recommended that, now I have to go get them for me.
Josh>> Good point, I totally agree, they put me in the dreamland zone quick. Metallica rules!!!
Though I am a metal head, but I listen to all kind, I also love HipHop/ Rap from the South (Ludacris, etc.) I get blown away by many talented musician out there.
I have to say, You're an awesome artist but knowing you are a metal head ... Just makes you all the more Awesomer!
Thanks bro, but I am afraid I might be too old for the mosh-pit, I was a Korn and System of a Down concert two years ago...it was hardcore and I realize then that it's getting a bit difficult to handle so I stay away nowadays. :)
Sorry I have to add this:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPFNq2KsFE
When I was last at the cinema, The Watchmen trailer came on with this song booming and I thought it was just awesome. It's by the Smashing Pumpkins and has been remixed from an earlier version which was on the Batman and Robin soundtrack.
Chris>> Smasing Pumpkin is BADASS!!! Wow I really like their new sound...a bit more industrial...the beat reminds me of Nine Inch Nails which I also love. I cannot wait for WatchMan!
KEEP THEM THE AWESOMENESS coming guys!
If you need some high energy music, the "Wipeout XL" sound track works great.
Sorry that should be "Wipeout 2097"
ano> thanks brother. I added it! Good stuff!
A good soundtrack is The Life Aquatic's.
Ano> Yeah, I heard about that one from a colleague ! Never really listen to it, now I have to give it a shot. thanks, I will put it up!
Didn't realise this thread was still going (till I clicked the link on the right...).
Xia you mentioned them already but I think Nine Inch Nails should be up there too. Not all of their songs are good for concentrating with, but those that are work extremely well.
I strongly suggest though if anyone is feeling even the slightest bit down to not listen to a song by them called "Hurt". Johnny Cash covered it, his version is also awesome/depressing.
Personally I also find listening to Down and Alice In Chains can help me focus.
Not one electronic artist on here? I cant even hear Xia talk most the time over it on his downloads! I think electronic mixes are the best by far, because they don't break your groove when the song changes, and is mainly instrumental to keep your brain in right brain mode.
There is way to much to name, but here are a few I keep in heavy rotation:
Sashsa - Invlover, Airdrawndagger
Muffler - Sighco Show
Black Sun Empire - Cruel and Unusual, Driving insane, Endangered species
Hybrid - I choose Noise, Y4k, and Wide Angle
Global Underground Electric Calm 1-4
Random Rab - Elucidation of Sorrow and Epicycle
Tipper - The Critical Path, Relish the through
I also like Erotic Lounge and Nu Jazz Cafe, similar to Buddah bar
Chris> Oh yeah! It's still going. I just post something about Tango and Piazzolla also. :) Good choices BTW.
Kyle Buhler> Great choice s of music by far. Most of techno I listen to are underground and free download these day...they are not big time. I do like Front242, My life with Thrill Kill Kult, etc.
Now I am going to have to do research on the list you put there. :) groovy!
Hi Xia ,
I think u would love "James Newton Howard" .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Newton_Howard
rahul> Yes, I do...I have a few of his cds. Lords of the ring, King Kong, the Sixth sense, etc.
Thanks for reminding me. :)
Testament should be up there.
* Necro Bump *
When you get a chance you have to listen to Hans Zimmer 's Thin Red Line Soundtrack - One of My All Time Favorite CDs to listen to when i want to paint :)
Necro Bump?
Yeah, I think I used to have that soundtrack on CD. It was awesome, especially the ending theme.
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