Despite arguments to the contrary, background music can undermine both creative innovation and productivity. According to several surveys, most people believe listening to music boosts their ...

Anna Fiveash receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Listening to music can enhance our lives in all kinds of ways – many of us use it during exercise, to regulate our mood, or in the ...

Jamming out at a concert puts music front and center in a person’s life, but only for a moment. Most of the time, music serves more as sonic wallpaper, spicing up the background while we go about the ...

If you struggle to be productive while working from home, you're not alone. Staring at a laptop in silence makes it harder to stay on task than you might think. In the absence of coworkers, you might ...

Listening to music at work is something of a contentious issue: Some people cite nebulous improvements in mood or productivity, while others say it's a distraction that slows you down and can even ...

From classical to country to ambient to stoner rock, here’s what we listen to at our desks. From classical to country to ambient to stoner rock, here’s what we listen to at our desks. Some people work ...

Music has a way of expressing that which cannot be put into words. It is for this reason (and many more) that music is regarded as one of the triumphs of human creativity–but does music itself help ...

I love music. Music in the car. Music in the shower. Music everywhere. But music most important when I’m at my desk busy working from home. I use music to get me in the right mindset for whatever I’m ...

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From the spare bedroom of a modest Studio City apartment in 2011, Jonathan Parks set his music dreams in motion. He wasn’t looking to the stars or seeking any kind of spotlight. He had no desire to ...