Some Kind of Art School ([info]darkdisney) wrote,
@ 2008-03-24 21:10:00
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Current music:AFI - Fallen Like the Sky (hidden track)

Do you ever paint (or some suitable substitute to painting ie write or sketch) to the pace of the music you're listing to?


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[info]verunicastar
2008-03-25 01:14 am UTC (link)
dunno if you like NIN at all... but the new release "ghosts" is truly fantastic. its sort of ambient NIN and all instrumental. insightful... anyways, i think its great to paint/draw to!

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[info]darkdisney
2008-03-25 01:27 am UTC (link)
if by like NIN you mean have everything virtually everything they've recorded on my hard drive then yes...I like them. still haven't grabbed ghost though :(

first time i tried to get it was a pain. I'll try again.

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[info]barcodegurl
2008-03-25 01:29 am UTC (link)
You can get it here on torrent easily: http://alluvion.org/

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[info]darkdisney
2008-03-25 01:32 am UTC (link)
downloading for the win!

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[info]static_eddie
2008-03-25 04:19 am UTC (link)
Woo mee too mee too... ambient NIN =Nice.

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[info]gymnopedie
2008-03-25 01:56 am UTC (link)
Oooh yes, Ghost is yummy

I've been doing a lot of work to it, and yes, I do tend to work 'fast' if the music is faster... so I purposefully delete songs off my list depending on what I'm doing. I cannot write if there's a lot of singing, because sometimes I realize start singing along to the music instead of writing>_>

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[info]darkdisney
2008-03-25 04:17 am UTC (link)
listening!

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[info]verunicastar
2008-03-25 02:59 pm UTC (link)
haha, well ok then! yeah ghosts is really good. i cant stop listening to it. there is a contest too, for people to send in videos they made for the tracks. check it out on NIN official youtube...

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[info]darkdisney
2008-03-25 03:00 pm UTC (link)
rad yes i listened to them all while painting last night. thanks!

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[info]darkdisney
2008-03-25 04:17 am UTC (link)
listening!

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[info]absinthetic
2008-03-25 02:35 am UTC (link)
when painting, yes....you could actually tell what music i was listening to at Ringling by the way i painted portraits in class. the short, multi-stroke "van gogh" style meant i was listening to something fast and heavy, like Mudvayne or System of a Down...long slow swirls meant either Pink Floyd or some "Unplugged" album from 90s.

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[info]darkdisney
2008-03-25 02:36 am UTC (link)
HA!

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[info]burn_in_heaven_
2008-03-25 03:54 am UTC (link)
YES.

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[info]static_eddie
2008-03-25 04:17 am UTC (link)
All the time. Even though I'm rather slow, precise and methodical, I often turn to music to fuel me through the night.

In fact I have my iTunes folders set up for different inspirations, be it writing, illustrating, sculpting, animating.

Some artists would disagree.
The topic comes up in Richard William's The Animator's Survival Guide, a book you'll find on almost every animator's desk. Simply put, he's against it.

I'll quote the story here since you probably don't have the book.

"LESSON ONE

UNPLUG!

Unplug! Take off your head phones! Turn off the radio! Switch off the CD! Turn off the tape! Close the door.

Like many artist, I had the habit of listening to classical music or jazz while working. On one of my first visits to Milt Kahl I innocently asked: 'Milt, do you ever listen to classical music while you're working?'"

(In the book the next thre pages are taken up by cartoons of Milt screaming at the fresh animator)

"'OF ALL THE S-S-S-STUPID GOD-GOD-GOD-DAMNED QUESTIONS I-I-I-I'VE EVER HEARD! I-I-I-I-I NEVER HEARD SUCH A-A-A-F-F-F-STUPID QUESTION! IY-IY-IY-IY! I'M NOT SMART ENOUGH TO THINK OF MORE THAN ONE THING AT A TIME!'"

The next page continues with Richard's lesson:

"Since it came from a genius this made quite an impression on me. Ather this I learnt to face the silence and think before swirling my pencil around. My animation improved right away.
This has been the case with many artists when I've passed this wisdom along. Recently, two previously sound-addicted computer animators were shocked to find that their plugged-in colleagues instantly made them objects of ridicule for not having wires coming out of their ears. They were even more surprised at the startling improvement in their work.
...end of lesson one."

Animation, like most art can be a very solitary process that requires many late nights alone... while at the studios during the day, I like to keep my ears alert to the workplace and it's ambient sounds. But at night I prefer to tune in to my music or podcasts.

By way of example, I typed this comment during Lo Fidelity Allstars' song Battleflag and managed to type in time with the beat... rather useful really.

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[info]in_pieces
2008-03-25 05:59 am UTC (link)
all.the.time

i have a few folders for my painting stuff. and a folder titled 'finals', and one 'homework'.

although i've found more of my design work gets done faster if i dont listen to music., although still sometimes that not the case.

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[info]in_pieces
2008-03-25 06:01 am UTC (link)
and to add.. i normally listen to slower doom metal when i paint, and do have much larger brush strokes than i did in HS when all i listened to while painting was BSITS

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[info]darkdisney
2008-03-25 07:27 pm UTC (link)
hahah DOOM metal?!

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[info]in_pieces
2008-03-26 02:25 am UTC (link)
uh... yeah. at least thats what we always called it.

sludge metal?

isis, jesu, neurosis, etc...

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[info]lightningsparks
2008-03-25 06:00 pm UTC (link)
This probably doesn't count, but i skate to what music is playing. Also, speaking of NIN, do you have any suggestions for nonchalantly sneaking in a NIN song at a wedding reception that won't completely offend everyone? I was thinking something older and dancy like Down in It, maybe? maybe?

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[info]darkdisney
2008-03-25 07:27 pm UTC (link)
IIIIIIIIIIIIIII wooooooooooooon't leeeeeeeeeet yuuuuuou faaaaaall apaaaaaart

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[info]angeloflove
2008-03-25 10:43 pm UTC (link)
I like to put on music when I am writing because I can't stand silence. I find it far more distracting than background noise.

I find often though for fiction that it interferes with where my writing is going because whatever the music it affects my emotions. Sometimes it can be a good thing, because it can bring me into the mood I need to be in to write a section if I am not already there. Sometimes though I have had to scrap it because it had taken me too far away from where I wanted to story to go. If I feel like it is starting to distract me too much, I put the TV on something I am completely uninterested in for background noise so I can just focus. If I am writing anything other than fiction though, I need to have music on or I can't stay focused.

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[info]darkdisney
2008-03-25 11:02 pm UTC (link)
where you listening to music when you wrote this?

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