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by Brandon Chester
In our fast paced lives, music is often the perfect remedy to slow down our pace and bring focus to a writing project. Consider the effects of the tempo and rhythm of your favorite songs or the mood a certain musician brings you to and how your creative faculty responds to those elements. Whether you're doing a last minute paper in the wee-hours of the morning, letting some submerged thoughts spill out in a stream of consciousness free-write, or carefully constructing your masterfully novel, music can help unlock thoughts and enhances your writing process. Although musical tastes are highly subjective, Eduify has identified 5 albums (plus our fan's favorites) to accompany your future writing projects. We've even thrown in a style of writing we think fits the theme of the music for each album.
Click here to listen to Eduify's Write to Radio on Last.fm!
Whether you’re a fan of the jazz or not, it would be hard to find something bad to say about this classic Miles Davis record. What could be better for getting those original ideas hidden deep in the core of your mind onto the page (or screen) than listening to some masters of the art of improvisation at work? Along with the Miles Davis lyrical trumpet melodies is the innovative and untouchable John Coltrane on saxophone. If you don’t know what you’re going to write about, don‘t stress, a lot of the best jazz musicians like John Coltrane and Miles Davis didn’t know what they’re going to play until it was played. Eduify imagines this album as sexy, noir crime novel in some big city in the early 20th century, rich with muggy night clubs and rainy alleyway rendezvous.
Alright, so maybe listening to five people exploring the limits of their instrumentation all at the same time is too distracting. If you’re working on, say, maybe a paper for school, you might need something a little more mellow. John Fahey is considered by many a virtuoso of the blues guitar and this record is audible proof. Nowadays one might hear the term ‘guitar virtuoso’ and think of wailing, light speed riffs and hi gain ultra-sustain whammy bar show-offs. If you hate the monotony of writing your papers in the same desk, in the same old room when you would really rather be somewhere else, maybe the songs of John Fahey’s Blind Joe Death can help you pretend you’re writing underneath an old oak tree in the country. Think old American folktales told around the fire in the woods after a hard day of work at the farm.
Let's escape your current location. Let's go to Northern India! A whole world of foreign traditions and different ways of life may tune your mind to a different frequency. In actuality, you might still just be in the same old chair as always, but listening to the man many consider the most important classical sitarist of the past century could give your mind some unfamiliar inspiration and get your inner atman writing. Eastern music is known to be fundamentally different in many ways to the Western traditions of music, theoretically, thematically and instrumentally. (Western hemisphere that is--not the shoot ‘em up, saloon-brawling style ‘western’). This could be the soundtrack to some poetry collection found locked in an ancient treasure chest you stumbled upon during a quest alone through some tranquil mountains.
We’re trying to keep the selection as diverse and well rounded as possible, but maybe the drones and sitars are too far out for you to concentrate on finishing your homework. We don’t want to leave out any music for our readers who dig the steady pace of the drum and bass we hear in popular music today. Maybe it's me: I think it's difficult to finish writing when you hear someone saying more words in ten seconds than you’ve written in your last paragraph. Check out Jamaican producer, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, with music performed by The Upsetters. Most of his work, along with this album, was conceived in his own back yard studio, The Black Ark, and has continued to influence following generations of various types of music up to today. This music is like that book you've always wanted to write, but it's still being planned out in your head until you think of the perfect ending.
If this is all still all too distracting for you to get that novel or term paper you've been slaving over finished, then maybe you just need to write in silence. Well, that’s not our 5th album suggestion, but not far from the peace of quiet is the atmospheric worlds crafted by the hypnotic Telecaster sounds of Earth. Look to some of their older albums and you may find music more apparently inspired by metal and blues, but Earth has always had a leaning towards repetition and continuity: two elements perfect for undisturbed concentration.
- Taylor Swift
- HIM
- Pride and Prejudice Sounds Track
- Iron Maiden
- Hawthorne Heights
- Enya
- Ayumi Hamasaki
- Megumi Hayashibara
- Just Turn Hulu On Continuous Play = Background Noise
- Whatever's Playing - Try Pandora or iTunes
In our fast paced lives, music is often the perfect remedy to slow down our pace and bring focus to a writing project. Consider the effects of the tempo and rhythm of your favorite songs or the mood a certain musician brings you to and how your creative faculty responds to those elements. Whether you're doing a last minute paper in the wee-hours of the morning, letting some submerged thoughts spill out in a stream of consciousness free-write, or carefully constructing your masterfully novel, music can help unlock thoughts and enhances your writing process. Although musical tastes are highly subjective, Eduify has identified 5 albums (plus our fan's favorites) to accompany your future writing projects. We've even thrown in a style of writing we think fits the theme of the music for each album.
Click here to listen to Eduify's Write to Radio on Last.fm!
All these albums and our fan's suggestions. Free!
Miles Davis “'Round About Midnight” - Jazz
Whether you’re a fan of the jazz or not, it would be hard to find something bad to say about this classic Miles Davis record. What could be better for getting those original ideas hidden deep in the core of your mind onto the page (or screen) than listening to some masters of the art of improvisation at work? Along with the Miles Davis lyrical trumpet melodies is the innovative and untouchable John Coltrane on saxophone. If you don’t know what you’re going to write about, don‘t stress, a lot of the best jazz musicians like John Coltrane and Miles Davis didn’t know what they’re going to play until it was played. Eduify imagines this album as sexy, noir crime novel in some big city in the early 20th century, rich with muggy night clubs and rainy alleyway rendezvous.
John Fahey “Blind Joe Death” - Blues
Alright, so maybe listening to five people exploring the limits of their instrumentation all at the same time is too distracting. If you’re working on, say, maybe a paper for school, you might need something a little more mellow. John Fahey is considered by many a virtuoso of the blues guitar and this record is audible proof. Nowadays one might hear the term ‘guitar virtuoso’ and think of wailing, light speed riffs and hi gain ultra-sustain whammy bar show-offs. If you hate the monotony of writing your papers in the same desk, in the same old room when you would really rather be somewhere else, maybe the songs of John Fahey’s Blind Joe Death can help you pretend you’re writing underneath an old oak tree in the country. Think old American folktales told around the fire in the woods after a hard day of work at the farm.
Ravi Shankar “Sounds of India” - Classical Indian
Let's escape your current location. Let's go to Northern India! A whole world of foreign traditions and different ways of life may tune your mind to a different frequency. In actuality, you might still just be in the same old chair as always, but listening to the man many consider the most important classical sitarist of the past century could give your mind some unfamiliar inspiration and get your inner atman writing. Eastern music is known to be fundamentally different in many ways to the Western traditions of music, theoretically, thematically and instrumentally. (Western hemisphere that is--not the shoot ‘em up, saloon-brawling style ‘western’). This could be the soundtrack to some poetry collection found locked in an ancient treasure chest you stumbled upon during a quest alone through some tranquil mountains.
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and The Upsetters “Super Ape” - Jamacian
We’re trying to keep the selection as diverse and well rounded as possible, but maybe the drones and sitars are too far out for you to concentrate on finishing your homework. We don’t want to leave out any music for our readers who dig the steady pace of the drum and bass we hear in popular music today. Maybe it's me: I think it's difficult to finish writing when you hear someone saying more words in ten seconds than you’ve written in your last paragraph. Check out Jamaican producer, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, with music performed by The Upsetters. Most of his work, along with this album, was conceived in his own back yard studio, The Black Ark, and has continued to influence following generations of various types of music up to today. This music is like that book you've always wanted to write, but it's still being planned out in your head until you think of the perfect ending.
Earth 'Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method' - Hypnotic
If this is all still all too distracting for you to get that novel or term paper you've been slaving over finished, then maybe you just need to write in silence. Well, that’s not our 5th album suggestion, but not far from the peace of quiet is the atmospheric worlds crafted by the hypnotic Telecaster sounds of Earth. Look to some of their older albums and you may find music more apparently inspired by metal and blues, but Earth has always had a leaning towards repetition and continuity: two elements perfect for undisturbed concentration.
Our fans tell us they love to listen to these artists while writing!
- Taylor Swift
- HIM
- Pride and Prejudice Sounds Track
- Iron Maiden
- Hawthorne Heights
- Enya
- Ayumi Hamasaki
- Megumi Hayashibara
- Just Turn Hulu On Continuous Play = Background Noise
- Whatever's Playing - Try Pandora or iTunes
What are your favorite musicians or songs to listen to?
Check out the Eduify Blog for some helpful tips on how to curb that procrastination and GET TO WORK!
"The Internet has become integral to the way that students research and write their papers, but in terms of procrastination, the Internet can be a frightening black hole. A quick jaunt over to Wikipedia to look up the Battle of Waterloo can quickly degenerate into three hours wasted reading about everything from brain-eating amoebas to unicorns to Kim Jung Il. Students often waste more time procrastinating and stressing out over their enormous to-do lists than they actually spend accomplishing their tasks in the end. Luckily, you can train yourself to avoid procrastinating by understanding your tendencies as a procrastinator and subverting them. Here are five helpful tips on how to curb procrastination and get your schoolwork done."
"The Internet has become integral to the way that students research and write their papers, but in terms of procrastination, the Internet can be a frightening black hole. A quick jaunt over to Wikipedia to look up the Battle of Waterloo can quickly degenerate into three hours wasted reading about everything from brain-eating amoebas to unicorns to Kim Jung Il. Students often waste more time procrastinating and stressing out over their enormous to-do lists than they actually spend accomplishing their tasks in the end. Luckily, you can train yourself to avoid procrastinating by understanding your tendencies as a procrastinator and subverting them. Here are five helpful tips on how to curb procrastination and get your schoolwork done."
Eduify's Notes
5 Perfect Musicians To Write Along With + Free Listening on Last.fm12 November 2009
Don't curb your enthusiasm by curbing your procrastination!01 May 2009
Eduify Interview at Mix0927 April 2009
Anand Iyer has "Jerry McGuire Day" over Eduify!27 April 2009
Eduify, Windows' Azure-based online app, released27 April 2009
Eduify uses the cloud to help students write essays27 April 2009
Eduify makes writing less painful for students27 April 2009
Microsoft makes case for Eduify, built with Microsoft Azure27 April 2009