Do you associate any book with any specific music such as an artist or album? When I was reading Ulysses I was listening to Cigarettes After Sex a lot, even -- no, especially -- while reading said novel, and so now whenever I hear their song John Wayne[1] all I can think about is Leopold Bloom. I'm curious to hear about your examples.[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5gjHFmi2Co
No, actually.
>>24830690No.Cigarettes after sex for Joyce is..odd but you do you anon :)
>>24830690Count of Monte Cristo with Rimsky Korsakoff’s Scheherazade
>>24830690I associate Don Quixote with the Don Quixote tone poem by Richard Strauss.But if you mean music that wasn't composed for the purpose of literature, then no.
>>24830690I'm sorry—I'm a filthy video game playing autist and looped this sort of rock rendition of Chopin's prelude no. 15 for the entire duration of reading Flowers for Algernon and they are both therefore permanently linked in my mind. That's about all I can think of, plus maybe Beatles' Norwegian Wood for... well, you know.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdnpdJXgV0Q
>>24830690bad bunny mogs this shit unironically
>>24830690I associate It with Coldplay's Viva la Vida because when I was 14 I went to the store with my mom and stayed in the car to read it and that song came on the radio. Now any time I think about It, that song pops in my head.
>>24830690Not a single book but a genre.I listen to this space ambient mix at least once with every scifi novel i read.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfuELVQjaAAlso an album called queen of time by Amorphis makes me instantly angry and want to scream Griffiith! out loud. I listened to it multiple times during my last read through of Berserk years ago.
>>24830690While? I can't do anything with lyrics while I read. Some Duke Ellington or Coltrane is nice reading music though. Used to be an IDM cuck back in like 2005 but eh, jazz is the jizz.
>>24830690Cigarettes After Sex fucking sucks. you're insulting Joyce by making this sort of association
>>24830690i can't focus on both reading and listening at the same time. one will take over and make the other into an indistinct distraction. that said, i've often used lustmord's the word as power to shut out ambient noise and to focus, and i sometimes play black metal if there's a lot to drown out. i've not made any associations with specific works of literature though. i did accidentally connect mr bungle's california with the wipeout games.
>>24830690Kafka on the shore with Masakatsu Takagi, Marginalia 2 and 3.As an aside, it it a sign of mental retardation if one finds reading very difficult while listening to music with lyrics? Because I can't.
>>24830690>I can so easily imagine Rundgang um die transzendentale Säule der Singularität by Burzum on Gravity's Rainbow, it's crazy how perfectly it fits the book (minus some of the more emotional parts perhaps). >Also Flim by Aphex for IJ. >For Ulysses some calm lounge jazz. >Tarrega for The Sun Also Rises.>Some more melancholic, dreamy jazz piano for Stoner>Absolutely a psychedelic deep sounding reed instrument, a sitar, jingles and waves for One Hundred Years of Solitude.I find that for books I couldn't really connect emotionally with (MD, V. and Recognitions for example, which I need to reread), I am not so easily able to imagine music to them.
