[New-Poetry] Music While Writing?

[Halvard Johnson]

Hey, Mill--

I've known David del 13 for quite a few years (he's a NYC
neighbor, and we've both been at VCCA at the same time
fairly often), but I'm having trouble imagining his music
as trance-inducing. What's the piece that does it for you?

Hal
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On Mar 1, 2008, at 12:03 PM, millb at aol.com wrote:

> I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but, one thing I do  
> when I write as related to music is repetition.  I put on one album  
> and let that repeat over and over.  Usually Miles Davis or David del  
> Tredici pr Sublime.  Helps me get into a trance and I play the CD  
> over and over again--sometimes all evening or all week or whatever I  
> need.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Quackenbush <jfq at myuw.net>
> Sent: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:15 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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