[New-Poetry] Music While Writing?

[Chris Stroffolino]

Anny---I'd be happy to play solo piano instrumental for you,  
distanced in the other room while you write...

Chris

On Mar 1, 2008, at 5:42 AM, 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
> To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views
> 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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