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Martin xxShawxx

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A bit of Men of Harlech  is amazing for tge concentration..
Sylvia Evans on 12/12/2023 19:28:21
Zulu!

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So right Martin...can see them in their red jackets,,,fab film Michael Cain.
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Strange but for me I can’t think and work things out when there’s noise….though elsewhere and apart from painting I love all kinds of music….the Two Cellos ( in concert) - not bad to look at either! Music which takes me back to when I was young ( still am in my mind ), and music which I’d never thought I’d come to like - jazz, especially with sax!
Marjorie Firth on 12/12/2023 19:16:58
Not Cleo Laine then
Martin Shaw on 12/12/2023 19:20:21
Nah......soaring sax!
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Martin xxShawxx

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Well Zulus or soaring sax, I’m listening to I Am Kloot at the moment 
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Martin Cooke

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Almost always, yes, normally jazz or ska. Coltrane, Truffaz, Colin Vallon, .... I believe we are all synaesthesic to a greater or less extent and it seems likely that the music influences the outcome.
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Almost always, yes, normally jazz or ska. Coltrane, Truffaz, Colin Vallon, .... I believe we are all synaesthesic to a greater or less extent and it seems likely that the music influences the outcome.
Martin Cooke on 12/12/2023 21:43:22
Yes, I would agree to that

Norrette Moore

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I put a digital album on, be it: folk, world, classical, but I don't really listen to it, until I realise I'm painting in silence an hour or so later.

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Helen Martell

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I stick an mp3 player on, on shuffle, so anything could come up (except pop music… not into that). It also helps to distract from how squished in my art room (aka spare room / dumping ground) I am, as that often puts me off the mood for painting. 

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Your art space sounds exactly like mine Helen! 
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Beforehand, to get me going Mozart.  Don't know why, not even my favourite composer, but it works.  During work - more difficult; could be anything from Howlin' Wolf to Richard Strauss, Jethro Tull to Bruckner.   A bit of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan will do the trick, as well.... there's no real rhyme or reason to what I'll listen to when working, but it's the Mozart that makes me pick up a brush in the first place - I have absolutely no understanding of why that's the case: but then, you can't rationalize everything.  
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I don't play music now.  A few years back Old Father Time claimed my hearing.  I have hearing aids, thank goodness, but they merely allow me to converse, listening to music is very hit and miss.  Literally.  A lot of the notes seem to have gone on holiday.  So old favourites just don't sound right.  When I did listen my choice was a bit eclectic.  A few classic instrumentals like Ravel's Bolero and Barber's Adagio.  The problem there was it could be a bit distracting.  Whilst I listened movies would be playing in my mind's eye.  My own made up movies, nothing seen on a screen.  So spectacular big budget stuff.  I'd start to think the scenarios playing in my noggin were much more interesting than the picture I was working on.  (I guess it's the same in some measure for all of us.) These days there's just a little music these old ears can manage.  Most of Chris Barber's and Louie Armstrong's jazz.  But I don't listen whilst drawing for fear I might start cutting a rug and end up with spatulated thrimbles. Ahh music...I remember it well.
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Jim Morris

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I'm at your level Lew. Subtitles are my best friend , but I can call up most things from memory. Got Miles Davies Sketches of Spain in my head right now, but monks plain chant , male voice choir, brass bands and classical overtures are all in the memory bank.  Arty Shaw playing Begin the Beguine is a regular friend. (-:
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