Ambient albums to listen to while reading?

>>9548623
Discrete Music
Substrata

>>9548623
Depends on the book. I do most of my reading without any music.

You have ambient noise all around you anyway.

If you need music to block out noise, use earplugs instead.

https://youtu.be/ArofBzXGa0E
this is the only thing that i listen to desu

>>9548631
>Substrata
How can you concentrate on reading with this album in your ears? I know I can't, it's not ambient enough. Pure ambient albums are coherent and fairly consistent in terms of sound and mood, in my opinion.

Try Stalker by Robert Rich & B. Lustmord. Especially for anything fitting that mood like Lem's Solaris.

>>9548641
Wew. Do you often recommend this album? Because the previous post was the first time I even thought about this album in years for some reason.

Lustmord
Marconi Union
Brian Eno/Harold Budd
2814
Raison d'etre
Oystein Sevag/Lakki Patey - Visual

Rainy Mood

I only listen to NIGHTCORE

I usually listen to music that matches the genre of what I'm reading. I'm reading Blood Meridian at the moment, so have a playlist Ennio Morricone Western movie themes.

>>9548623

I have a white noise machine I play. Sometimes I set it on rain , waves or waterfall but usually just white noise on full volume

>>9548623
I want to tickle her little socked feet

>>9548623

Search youtube for "reading music". Tons of good stuff for reading, studying and memory comes up.

>>9548729
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>>9548636
with ambient noise I agree, I don't need it, but if I am around people talking, I much rather listen to some ambient music

Nurse with Wound: Soliloquy for Lilith

for Horror, " Thomas Ligotti and Current 93's atmospheric collaborations.

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>>9549160

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i'm glad you asked!

>loscil - first narrows
>loscil - coast/range/arc
>aphex twin - SAW II
>sugar plant - after after hours
>oval - 94 diskont
>rene hell - lucifer pt. II
>tetsu inoue - inland
>pjusk - sart
>bohren und der club of gore - midnight radio [drony nightjazz]
and pretty much any album by
>hakobune
>kyle bobby dunn
>chihei hatakeyama
>saito koji

>>9548655
t. Lembot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pqxRCUp4r0&t=1395s

MOON OST
+
2001 A Space Oddesy

Its lit senpai.

wow literature sure is cool huh

sage

>>9548623
A personal favourite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPoqNeR3_UA

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>>9549240
darkgamer76 is speaking the truth...
R.I.P music goodbye...

>>9548623
William Baskinski

>>9550012
second this.

love the disintegration loops.

>>9548755
This is hilarious

Bull of Heaven

>listening to music while reading
Enjoy being a brainlet for life.

This thread is probably the best proof that 90% of the people on /lit/ are not even serious readers.

>>9550400
So you're not a serious reader, anon? What's wrong with you?

>listening to music while reading
>tainting the impressions the book makes on your emotions, imagination and intellect by applying a filter
how disgusting

Brian Eno
2814
HKE
William Basinksi
toe
Leandro Fresco
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
GAS
Bohren and Der Club of Gore

HKE and Godspeed are probably the loudest out of the ambient, but toe are essentially a math rock band, but at a low volume I find it extremely relaxing

>>9548954
24/H LOFI HIP HOP STUDY SESSION STUDY//RELAX//CHILL HOP WIFI LOFI

>>9548707
>2814

Fuckin love rain temple my dude

basically every Sigur Rós album

>>9550451
>gas
which one—the german guy or the one who did "discovery"?
>toe
good taste my man, but definitely not for the background.
>bohren und der club of gore
see also: the killimanjaro darkjazz ensemble, dale cooper quartet and the dictaphones.

>>9550480
German one, I'm thinking about buying that big box set of his

Thanks for the recs on Bohren, I love them so I'm glad to have some similar artists to listen to.

stars of the lid


sage >>>/mu/

> literal dopamine-addict brainlets

Ben Lukas Boysen/Hecq

>>9548623
William Basinski's Disintegration Loops (all four releases)
Brian Eno's Music for Airports
Carbon Based Lifeforms' Twentythree
Merzbow's Merzbient
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Solar Fields' Altered - Second Movements

I also find minimalist composers like Nils Frahm, Max Richter, Steven Reich, Philip Glass and Michael Nyman also work really well to help me focus while reading and studying. Sunn O))) and early Earth albums are also OK - oppressive and slow, heavy sounding but nothing too distracting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_JAvVjKeWI

I have annoying neighbors so I am thinking of buying some noise-cancelling headphones. Any recommendations?

>>9550771
These sorts of things.

>>9548623
Anything by John Frusciante.

>>9550439
True words.

>>9551062
Just use earplugs to block out the undesireable noise. It's one thing to play ambient music in the background through speakers, but actually streaming music directly into your ears while reading just seems like a pointless distraction.

Music is best listened to with full attention. Having music in the background for activities requiring concentration is plebeian, symptomatic of a short attention span and fidgeting.

>>9551062
Probably best off asking people on /mu/. I own a pair of Sennheiser though, they're a reliable brand.

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How has no one mentioned Loscil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11JITPeYAWs&t=789s

>>9551116
muh nigga

I've listened to all his solo stuff

https://youtu.be/5hL7NZVOCfU?t=1499

This. Look familiar?

https://youtu.be/x4CxJyz8F48

>>9552988
you ass, your pic related was the second thing i recommended [>>9549333]

in my personal opinion, if even ambient music doesn't hold your attention enough for you to read you have poor musical comprehension, and if you can't read without music you have poor focus.

Anyone have any decent recommendations for molded ear plugs? I really hate the shitty squishy disposable ear plugs, but I recently moved to a fairly loud area and it's really difficult to read because of all the noise.

>>9550771
>Merzbow's Merzbient

What in the fuck have I downloaded

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People already mentioned most of what I like, but I would like to add sleep research facility, specially the deep frieze album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y3MqC9wRjs&t=2s

William Basinski's Watersounds II is also a personal favourite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX_jySkFIK4

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>>9553434
If the ambient music you are listening to distracts you it isn't very good ambient music now is it.

Are you also unable to read if it is raining friend?

>>9554373
>If the ambient music you are listening to distracts you it isn't very good ambient music now is it.
That is L I T E R A L L Y the opposite of what's true.
Truly the most retarded post i've seen all week.

>>9550771
Pretty good list - eno and basinksy, but that's just me

Usually listen to some classical or early Ben Frost if there is noise around me.

>>9548755
>Reading The Things They Carried
>It Ain't Me starts playing

>>9553583
Merzbow's 12 LP collection of janky dark ambient. It's pretty good actually if you like Merzbow. I listened to it a lot while I studied at college a few years ago.

>>9553054
John Zorn is my main man T B H senpai, love his christmas jazz album.

>>9549333
trips
+1 saw2, oval & tetsu inoue

>>9550012
correct
>>9550451
+1 eno, 2814, basinski, gas
>>9550499
>>9550771
>>9553019
these

>>9548623
25,000 kittens

>>9548623
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVogEP92uGo

Only good answers below citation.
And for all the other faggots and pretenders: Why would you listen to music while reading? If you are reading you are supposed to apreciate the aesthetics of Literature, the emotions and thoughts a book can conceive on you. Music modifies your mood, you are manipulating the reading experience. Seriously, you people have no respect for anything, neither the mediums you say to enjoy. You disrespect both Music and Literature when you mix then like it doesn't mean a thing.
>>9553434
>>9550713
>>9550439
>>9550499
>>9550397
>>9550400

>>9548623
I want to fuck this cute animoo girl.

>>9548623
electroswing

i listen to this on random settings to tickle my brain waves.

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php

what kind of ape would listen to actual music while reading?

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>>9557054

darude - sandstorm

>>9550771
Seconding steve reich, music for 18 musicians is b a s e d.

Arvo part is great as well, especially tabula rasa

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just put on one of those focus playlists on Apple Music, i like "Swift Concentration" and "Zone In" most of the time, but "Early Music: From Medieval to Renaissance" has some patrish vibes

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Blood Meridian + The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull is a match made in heaven

>>9548787
best post in thread tbqh

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Prepare to be comfy, boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MMhK5ojDE0

>>9557895
Earth is pretty great overall

>>9558243
Loving this fampai, thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9L4q-0Pi4E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN6i3W07ohk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQsaPVW3vxY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyxSkRFUrL8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_M9MRj7NYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y3MqC9wRjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zl5vpy__dQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaSi7Gut7xM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FGtd3oH_PQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OycCEDxQFoA
https://youtu.be/IUVmcKcTZ4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBR2IBRP2v0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAo4svd7IR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa2E-rRT4JE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKt7DTKyJU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePHh5AFSLVk

happy reading

>>9550451
nice list
also the caretaker / leyland kirby

>>9557144
henlo gucci

If this hasn't been yet recommended, Celer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIc6_HdWhy4

>>9558961
Wherever I go, I find Twitter. Scares me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQmGS3Es39A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0at5DrXpJj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5m6WSOZTyA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkM-lwX8ETg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5d0UGeApwA

there you go negroes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NlBn5GBRp4

Forgot this little gem. Unmissable.

Hi

Some of these hardly pass as ambient music. Listen to Mathias Grassow. His love music has drone elements and it can make you very introspective.

>>9560437
>Hardly passes as Ambient
>Recommends Drone
Nice one dude

>>9560461
Ambient with Drone elements. Idiot. You're probably the guy that recommended GY!BE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQSljVL5ARA

>>9548623
all music is ambient music when you're reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrOCteaZfns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gbT3zzG8n0

>>9549333
Just listened to hakobune, o boi this is great thank you

here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7NhD8_z7vU