Canyongazer
Canyongazer
Gene Smith said: (paraphrasing here)
You need persistence, music and a bottle of scotch.
You need persistence, music and a bottle of scotch.
Carriage
Established
Does anyone who uses a metronome for timing have difficulty with which beat to follow?
KM-25
Well-known
My timer has a built in one so if I play music at all, it is really low volume in the background so I can hear the clicks of the metronome.
Thorsten Overgaard
Newbie
That just put me in the mood to get a darkroom again... The slow work and the music to go with it.
Here's a darkroom in a museum, "The Old Town" in my hometown. They build a whole city block with houses and interiors of 1950-80's. This is the darkroom of a Danish photographers Jørgen Angels who photographed Jimi Hendrix the day before he died.
It's the Jimi Hendrix prints hanging for drying.
But I remember the radio playing in the darkroom when I visited and how it made me miss being in the darkroom again...
Here's a darkroom in a museum, "The Old Town" in my hometown. They build a whole city block with houses and interiors of 1950-80's. This is the darkroom of a Danish photographers Jørgen Angels who photographed Jimi Hendrix the day before he died.
It's the Jimi Hendrix prints hanging for drying.
But I remember the radio playing in the darkroom when I visited and how it made me miss being in the darkroom again...
Ronald M
Veteran
For sure, & learn to appreciate classical & jazz.
Play softly so you can concentrate on printing, not music.
Play softly so you can concentrate on printing, not music.
grouchos_tash
Well-known
When I was at uni we always had music and in the colour darkroom all you could hear was everyone singing along to Bowie in their separate cubicles haha!
tho60
Well-known
The gadget lights (displays, LEDs) might not affect the pictures?
mdarnton
Well-known
Sometimes we have the radio on at work; usually someone or another's playing personal recordings; today someone was listening to a talk show in Swedish. It's all the same to me--if I'm really involved, I hardly hear it at all, and never find it distracting because when I'm working I'm really zoned in and focused on what I'm doing. I also find it easy to do things like just let the phone ring, unanswered.
Baipin
Established
Having a radio in the darkroom and being the darkroom technician, I was provided with the opportunity of introducing my peers to good music (well, my idea of good music, but most shared that sentiment). 
Big Ursus
Well-known
Wow, you folks do take me back! I used to go between a local radio station, CKUA, and books on tape. I still remember trying to understand, The Dancing Wu Masters, while I printed a show.
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
Easily covered.
oftheherd
Veteran
I remember reading the inventors of Kodachrome used to time their experiments by whistling favored classical music.
I don't recall ever listening to music while working in the darkroom. I don't think there is necessarily anything wrong with it, it just wasn't the way I learned to work in the darkroom
I don't recall ever listening to music while working in the darkroom. I don't think there is necessarily anything wrong with it, it just wasn't the way I learned to work in the darkroom
kxl
Social Documentary
I have Sonos wireless speakers set up throughout the house and stream music. I just move the speakers where I need them (including the darkroom) as long as the speaker can access my wifi network.