[New-Poetry] Music While Writing?

[Halvard Johnson]

They built a fence at the border and Pandora
doesn't get down here anymore.

Hal

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On Mar 1, 2008, at 8:16 AM, TheOldMole wrote:

> 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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