what kind of music sets you in the mood?

[Robz]

I was wondering if you guys listen to music while you paint, if so what kind of music? i personaly love listening to chianting / ambient music while i draw. I know its kind of silly but im curious

[vann12]

It depends on what I'm doing the only music I don't listen to is country and
techno/rap

[Hiddnfox]

yea, alot of ambient music.

mostly stuff without words.

live365 has TONS of free online user-made radio stations that are more than suffient for any music you are looking for.

[sweetoblivion314]

depends on what i am drawing.
I like a whole range but i find that rock music tends to distract me more then other ambient and classical and folk music so i tend not to listen to it while i work.

Though one artist who always makes me want to draw is Hayley Westenra. She is a classical soprano with an amazing voice. She is also the most beautiful girl i have ever seen. So most of the time i hear her i just want to draw her haha

[Robz]

depends on what i am drawing.
I like a whole range but i find that rock music tends to distract me more then other ambient and classical and folk music so i tend not to listen to it while i work.

Though one artist who always makes me want to draw is Hayley Westenra. She is a classical soprano with an amazing voice. She is also the most beautiful girl i have ever seen. So most of the time i hear her i just want to draw her haha

hehehe

[tomwaits4noman]

I set up playlists on my mp3 player of favourite bands and genres, I can also pick albums at random so depends on my mood at the time, nothing too slow or too heavy.

Some favs

Radiohead - kid A, Hail Thief
The best of The Doors
Tool - Lateralus, Anema, 10,000 days (first half of the album anyway)
Faith No More - Angel Dust and both best of
The Roots - game Theory
Lost highway OST
Patti Smith - Land, Horses
Sleater Kinney - One beat, The Woods
Sonic Youth- Dirty
Grinderman- Grinderman
Scott Walker - collection of songs
Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights
Einsturzende Neubauten - Silence is Sexy, Strategies against Architecture 3, Perpertum Mobile.
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
pearl Jam- acoustic gig for MTV
Some Classical

[saturniaus]

I enjoy Alternative/Punk rock. I often listen thru my iPOD.

Some may find music distracting, but I actually find it helps me get moving. Not just with drawing but with any other day's work I do.

I have The Tube channel thru DTV, I leave the TV on with that channel when I'm alone in the house.

[Kazoo]

I listen to absolutely anything that takes my fancy...soundtracks, video game music, blues, musicals...when I paint I like easy songs like Sting and Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins sing, or Smooth FM radio...but anything I enjoy will do!

[algebra]

I listen to everything except country and rap also, (with some exceptions). Lately Explosions in the Sky and the Dismemberment Plan have been getting my artistic juices flowing.

[Dog Dancing1]

As a few said before I don't listen to rap and country.
Usually I listen to hardcore and metalcore ones with very fast beats(which is pretty much all of them) also some soft rock just depends.

[enelrad]

usually depends on what im doing.i cant listen to music without any lyrics while drawing. i feel very messed up and i get distracted.

[Zirngibism]

I like two ends of the spectrum-- either music without words or audiobooks.

As for music, the 2 genres I really like is classical and techno (but none of that slow, ambient stuff- happy hardcore and classic electronica, etc... are good), and especially the mixing of the two.

www.di.fm is a good source for techno, and I also listen to classical on live365.

I don't like music when they scream, or I otherwise can't understand what they're saying, or when it's generally cacophonous - it just sounds kind of cheap and garish to me. However, I had to put up with it in art class for 4 years so I can't say it actually hinders me.

[Earendil]

I'd like to thank HiddnFox...I've had Live365 electronic channel going for 3 hours straight, and 7 newsprint pages of gesture drawings. Where does the time go?

[Micaiah Nelson]

Deftones all the way
Arai Akino- Tribute of Jungle my fav Beautiful music
Disturbed-Numb
FF7-soundtrack
Gorillaz
and Deftones again the style is animated
Soulfly's- Head up, First commandment

[Robz]

hahaha im amazed at what some of you guys listen to while working ;D but everyone is different and thats what makes us human, some of us at least lol nah jk