[New-Poetry] Music While Writing?

[Anny Ballardini]

Jeex, look at this:

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thank you anyhow Tad,

ahy poor me, discovered just like that_

I loved the idea of the page ended before the side finished,


From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Music While Writing?


> If you'll accept Jazz solo piano, go to Pandora and set up an Art Tatum 
> station.;
>
> Jim C -- loved it.
>
> Me -- no music while writing poetry. When I was writing commercial 
> fiction, and we still had LPs, I'd put on an album and challenge myself to 
> write a page before the side ended.
>
> Anny Ballardini wrote:
>> My ideal background sound would be solo piano, and distanced in the other 
>> room to cut out all other noises. Difficult to find on these radios, as a 
>> matter of fact I keep on changing stations which distracts me further. I 
>> will have to sit down one day and build my own library, maybe and 
>> hopefully. In the meantime I am quite grateful to IcebergRadio pianists 
>> section - don't know why they fill it with orchestras:
>> http://www.icebergradio.com/#player/40071
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     *From:* Jason Quackenbush <mailto:jfq at myuw.net>
>>     *To:* NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views
>>     <mailto:new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
>>     *Sent:* Saturday, March 01, 2008 9:15 AM
>>     *Subject:* Re: [New-Poetry] Music While Writing?
>>
>>     I have different kinds of music I listen to for different things.
>>     I can't write without music, although it runs the gamut of what
>>     I'll listen too depending on the mood I'm going for. Often it's
>>     the smiths or the pixies. the cure. Joy division. Tom Waits has a
>>     couple of good albums for writing, Alice and The Black Rider. The
>>     Sun City Girls. Occasionally out jazz like Ornette or Sun Ra. Or
>>     something more postmodern like Joelle Leandre or Derek Bailey.
>>     Bailey has a really good record on Tzadik that works well for me.
>>     I don't listen to much classical music when I'm working on
>>     something. I have a few favorites but i like classical more for
>>     housework than for doing things that I have to think about.
>>     Although, I do like classical music when i'm fiddling around with
>>     things with my hands, like building electronics kits or
>>     woodworking. I think the selection comes down to what level of
>>     distraction I'm looking for. I really can't stand quiet though.
>>     Sometimes I'll just put on DVDs I've watched a hundred times and
>>     have them going in the background while I'm writing. Just
>>     something so that I don't have to listen to the sound of my own
>>     heartbeat or the stuff going on outside, traffic and what not. I
>>     don't know why that is. Maybe it's all the ear training work I did
>>     in college. I got so used to passively listening for details that
>>     I can't really turn it off, so I have to give my ears something to
>>     do or they'll get bored start bugging me with incidental nonsense.
>>     Hmmm.
>>     On Feb 29, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Jeff Newberry wrote:
>>
>>>     Any of you poets out there listen to music while you compose?  I
>>>     don't usually, though I've tried.  I have found that certain
>>>     music can be rather generative if I listen to it /before/ I
>>>     write:  Miles Davis, Bill Evans, certain Hendrix songs, certain
>>>     brands of acoustic blues.
>>>
>>>     My problem in listening to music while I write is this:  I'm
>>>     sitting here, typing away, and suddenly I'm wondering, "Is that
>>>     an Amaj7 or a A13?"  Or "What mode is that solo in? Mixolydian?" 
>>> Then, I'm lost in the composition of the tune &
>>>     lose touch with the poem.
>>>
>>>     What about you all?  Do you listen to music while you compose? If 
>>> so, what?
>>>
>>>     Jeff Newberry
>>>
>>>     -- 
>>>     "Memory believes before knowing remembers.  Believes longer than
>>>     recollects, longer than knowing even wonders."
>>>     —William Faulkner, Light in August
>>>
>>>
>>>     http://museoffireblog.blogspot.com
>>>
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