Listen While You Read
I’m here looking for energy - I’m looking for deep groove - I’m looking for repetition, but not lame repetition - not something that just repeats and takes me nowhere.
I’m looking for a shepherd - a guide, a sonic soulmate that lifts me up and creates the universe while I write it all down.
And it’s weird when it comes to EDM music - the expectation of the drop and the experience of being as one with hundreds, thousands of people - particularly now that its absence is so resonant - but I’ve been teaching myself to write to this kind of music and - at the right time and for the right purpose - it’s bloody brilliant.
I suspect that this found its way into my ears from the music to Escape Reality playlist - a list that spends way more time in this sonic space, so if you dig this, go check it out - but if you’re here for the writing - here’s how to use this track.
Get it on a general writing playlist - if you’re the kind of cat that listens to music while you write I’m guessing you probably have a few - and maybe for the first few times you hear it it doesn’t drive you - at least - that was my experience - but then it also didn’t distract me either - which ensured that it stayed on my listening lists for over 7 months!
But then what happens - is one day - when you least expect it - your brain already knows that the drop’s coming in at 3:15 - you find your fingers speeding up as the ideas flow faster and indeed - you find yourself in a flow state - and now you’re driving to the end of the idea - the end of the paragraph - hell - the end of the essay if you’re smart enough to turn around and put it on repeat.
About the Curator: Andrew McCluskey
The first visual memory I have is that of the white upright piano in Singapore, Hell and the Dark Forces lived at the bottom, Heaven and the Angels at the top, they would play battles through my fingers and I was hooked.
As a psychology graduate I studied how sound affects human performance.
As a musician I compose instrumental music that stimulates your brain but doesn't mess with your language centers, leaving you free to be creative and brilliant without distraction.
As a curator I research how music can improve your life and create flow - I can tell you what music to listen to when studying for a test and why listening to sad music can make you feel better.
As the founder of musicto I’m on a mission to inspire a global audience of music lovers and artists through the development of people powered playlists.