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Originally posted by kurty[B]
Mine's either drum and bass, jazz, or classical; I find it's harder for me to focus on what I'm doing in silence then with any kind of background noise (even a babbling brook, or a singing bird is better than sheer silence for me).
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I agree, pure silence is a killer, I end up straining to hear the quietest noise possible and blow my concentration. I usually play some good instrumental music, something along the lines of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, or Silver Mount Zion. Classical music usually works pretty good too, Mahler's fifth is one of my favorites to listen to while reading. When I write though, I find that I can listen to just about anything, sometimes I even get some inspiration from what I'm listening to. There was one paper I wrote for an English class that was based on the disco version of "C" is for Cookie that I was listening to at the time I was trying to come up with a topic. You never know where inspiration may come from.