As researchers (and no matter in which field: optics, engineering, physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, biotechnology and etc.), many of us are most of the time dealing with research work, and often forget that there is also a life outside the university. But our efficiency decreases with the time and good ideas are not born.
If we are willing to allocate an hour a day or an hour in a few days for music, which kind of music will improve the creativity of our brain in the research? Which kind of music most help to you? Thank you in advance!
I prefer music that's based on just intervals instead of temperament.
Good question, I think the best music is that you love, because you will not ear song that you hate! But is interesting to investigate which one produces benefit changes in our brain. Mozart is good to ear
there is a very nice article by lifehackers on the subject. Hope you would find something helpful/ interesting.
link: http://lifehacker.com/how-music-affects-the-brain-and-how-it-benefits-you-1469597259
Some authors (as Aaron Copland and Arthur Shopenhauer) connect music with body movement (rhythm), emotions (mainly melody and partly harmony), intellectual perceptions (harmony) and tone color. I wonder, following your question, if there is any connection between one of these four elements with intellectual creativity. There are experiences that relate sound with color (synesthesia) and hence music with painting.
I think the choice of music varies from individual to individual. I love slow music.
I've tried different kind of musics which among them Chill out is the best option, You can check it out on youtube, hope it works for you too
Soft classical music stimulates the mind and provide soothing effect to sensory nerves.
the best music for your brain refreshment is that which sooth your soul in time of any degree of burnout. that which work for me is spiritual one.
I think its strongly depend on kind of mental work. Heavy metal extremely stimulates mental activity while writing reviewer reports. Oppositely, when you must understand somehow difficult physical mechanism of any effect, I recommend SILENCE by John Cage to be set into continuous playback
Polyrythmic and progressive Metal music is good for everything. :-)
Meshuggah (there are so much more but these guys are the most famous) for the more violent side or if you want something more calm, you go for Dream Theater and Haken for instance. It really open my mind.
I also like calm movie soundtracks form movies I enjoyed. (like Clint Mansell or Hans Zimmer stuff). But this is at the end a question of taste.
'S gonna be a lotta time to find them all, I will do it later
For ideation, where exploratory issues are still surfacing and crystallizing, I like to something that mirrors that-epic and abstract. Like John Barry's Out of Africa soundtrack, or one of Liszt's symphonic tone poems.
For productivity, getting the job done.Writing to a dateline.I will choose something dramatic and perhaps rhythmic. For instance something that is akin to Lalo Schifrin's theme to mission impossible, or Beethoven's 5th,1st mov.
I believe it is the music that you compose yourself. The digital revolution has made it possible for everyone to compose just anything, even symphonies. Students could use the digital music tool to compose impressions from physics which presumably will strengthen interest and promote creativity.
The composing process itself is creative and your research will benefit from that. I have personal experience. I felt a remarkable development of creativity when composing this tune which also has a relation to geophysics, the evolution of earth:
https://soundcloud.com/user-892939153/mother-earth-version-2-improved-sound
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