Picking music to listen to while working is like picking your nose, you aren't proud of how long it takes you but you're satisfied when you finally find the one. That being said, it can be hard to navigate around the endless supply of music circulating around the web at any given time. That's why I am here to shed some light, err music, on your workflow.
So Terry drops me an email on the 7th, a couple of days before I hear about the Malaysian airplane. It's a great idea - "Music to descend in an airplane to."
I love it.
I went through a number of takes to get the piece but I'm digging where we ended up. I'm using the LIFX bulb again and a killer image from Bob Jagendorf on Flickr called Sunset From Airplane
It was only when I was thinking of publishing did I make the connection between the piece and the horrific loss in Malaya.
I'm not a fan of FUD marketing.
I ended up deciding to publish because the music was written specifically for people who were freaked out by turbulence and landing. I reckon that it does more good in the world than being kept hidden for the wrong reasons.
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More data that digs into how music affects us - this time a study from the University of Lisbon looking at whether different types of background music (happy, sad, none) will affect what you choose to look at.
A relatively small study of 63 participants were broken into three groups where they either listened to happy music, sad music or a control group with no music. They were then presented with pairs of visual images - one showing a fortunate circumstance, the other showing an unfortunate or negative circumstance.
Turns out that the background music won't affect what image you start to look at, but it will affect how long you will spend on an image. Sad music makes you spend longer on sad imagery and vice versa for happy music.
Not really a shocker but nice evidence of how music can shape your attention.
Image Credit: Trader of the Apocalypse by David Blackwell on Flickr
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