[New-Poetry] Music While Writing?

TheOldMole Opus40-01 at opus40.org
Sat Mar 1 11:45:52 EST 2008 

Well, damn.

Anny Ballardini wrote:
> 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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