Music to Write An Essay To
the perfect writing music – get an “a” with andrew
featuring artists like:
Fiona Joy Hawkins, Cesium Swimsuit, ODESZA, Flow, DJ Food, music2work2, Cliff Martinez, Moby, Aphex Twin
YouTube was the first place where essay writing music really kicked off. Long form instrumental tracks created the perfect balance of blocking external noise without distracting cognitive centers with words or lyrics. Often falling into the “New Age” category, it wasn’t the sexiest of genres and would never appear on radio but there was a huge and hungry audience.
Many of the tracks on this playlist have millions of streams and views and are very much people’s go to writing music, others are brand new compositions but are great at setting the optimal environment for getting the words out.
Here’s the thing though – there’s no way that every track on this list is going to work for you – it’s likely that you’ll experience some tracks as jarring or too disruptive or even too boring and soporific. The point of this playlist is less about stringing tracks together in a sequence and more about finding tracks that you can put on repeat and get into a state of creative flow – it’s why we generally prefer longer form submissions.
While we cover pretty much all genres and intensities, typically the tracks are ambient in nature, mid tempo and are instrumental. There are some tracks with the odd word or two but there is no lyrical story telling to distract the writer when they’re trying to get their own words out.
Fastlane – Rozza Slow Motion Remix – Jorn Van Deynhoven
27 September 2017
So I’m hungover as fuck and my brain is working at – like – 2 miles an hour and yet I have soooooo much to do! I could berate myself and slump into self hatred procrastination but screw that – today I’m subscribing to the 7 second rule and moving on. So what do you do when you’ve got to get your shit together – you have words to write – a to do list to polish off and no desire to do anything?
You put this fucking track on – that’s what you do!
Wheels Within Wheels – Penguin Café
20 September 2017
One of the cool things about being a Music to curator is that you get to hear the tracks that other curators have selected – and they’re always bloody amazing. There’s just so much music “out there” it would be impossible to know it all, so to have a group of amazing music lovers hand selecting a track a week just means that we get exposed to the really good stuff!
Las Claves – Dr. Fuego
22 August 2017
We’re in Barcelona, dodging terrorists and finding our work groove. You’re probably just starting or about to start school again – the evil spectre of Essays looms over you.
This track is going to help – here’s the previous write up:
Adagio For Strings, OP.11 – Samuel Barber
8 August 2017
It’s crazy to think that this was written in 1936 and yet it is one of the most popular pieces of American “classical”music and enhances the stories of some of my favorite movies: Platoon, The Crow, Gattaca, Amélie – the list goes on and it’s always appropriately gut wrenching.
Portrait Gallery – Luke Howard
1 August 2017
I love how certain things just start appearing in your world – you know like – if you haven’t heard a certain song for years and then suddenly you start hearing it all the time – I love the weird random shit like that. And while I’m sure there’s some cognitive explanation – I personally think it’s magic and I’m all for it.
Sireli – Viken Arman
25 July 2017
You should probably know by now that I’m a total hippy – that I believe if we all just got to know each other better and hung out and shared our music – that the world would be a happier place.
Light of the Seven – Ramin Djawadi
18 July 2017
Well come on – the series started again this week so it was a pretty easy choice! Having said that – this is a killer track and really rewards repeated listening.
Fiel – Igor Longhi
11 July 2017
Essay writing music is essentially Trance music – well, OK – that might be a little broad but really, what we’re talking about is music that you can fall in to, that doesn’t freak you out, that becomes familiar quickly & allows you to get lost in your own thoughts.
Swear – Moby
4 July 2017
It’s the insistent high hat that makes this perfect for the playlist. I’m all for pure instrumental percussion free tracks – what is often referred to as “New Age” but – there has to be a sense of movement in the track – it has to give energy rather than take it.
Miraflores – Feathered Sun
27 June 2017
So I’m breaking my own rules on this track but hey – sometimes you just gotta try something a little different – this track has words – not a lot – but definitely a sense of lyric, and yet…
Las Claves – Dr. Fuego
21 June 2017
Alright, we know – it’s summer and you’re all out on break earning dough in shitty jobs or heading south to the good weather – (or maybe even running north – it was 108 here in LA today!)
Piano Sonata No.12 In F – W.A.Mozart – Maria João Pires
26 April 2017
The Piano Sonatas of Mozart (as played by Maria J Pires) are an obvious choice to cool down, concentrate and get in a flow.
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.
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