[LAU] OT music conducive to programming?

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:13:10AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:

> >Anyone have any recommendations for music good for getting them into
> >the frame of mind for programming?
> >
> 
> Anything by Iannis Xenakis or Morton Feldman. :)

Mmm, some of Xenakis' work would actually distract me 
more than I'd want...

It's not clear what the original question referred to: music that
*motivates* you to do some programming, or that provides the right
background while working...

As to motivation, anyone showing a motivation to produce something
beautiful could be contagious to me. Last week I recorded some Verdi
opera arias. One of them being "D'amor sull'ali rosee" from Verdi's
"Il Trovatore".

Here's la Callas singing the same:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf15oAdOPHs>
the part I recorded starts at 1:00 and D'amor... at 2:35.

Now imagine this being performed a by a tiny 20-year or so
Korean girl, a student at the conservatory here. Coming from
a completely different culture (where showing emotions in the
way it's done in Italian opera is frowned upon) she made an
absolutely captivating performance. Today I was finishing this
recording, and didn't find the right reverb for it. So I'm
programming that now... 

Ciao,

-- 
FA

There are three of them, and Alleline.