What are your favorite darkroom hits?

[glbeas]

Can't say I ever heard your niece, glbeas. I know a Brook Beasley but I think it is not the same one. Her dad is a surveyer. She went to Eastern Hills HS with my daughter in Ft Worth.

I was joking about only listening to country and western. I do listen to that genre mostly but I really love rock and roll. Roots blues is a big favorite and rockabilly. I have not had music in my darkroom for a long time so I am not sure if I can put up with it. A friend has a big honking CD player in his and he is one the second floor. I can not listen to music there while printing as I tend to dance around and pat my foot to the music and in that darkroom you get movement in the print. So, there I like no music.

lee\c

Talking about her, I went to my brothers retirement ceremony from the Air Force, her and nephew David were there to attend. Saturday night David was playing guitar and Brooke was singing some very bluesy stuff and some Janis Joplin as well as some work her and David put together. Gawd that girl can knock you over with that singing, sounded really good.

 

[bmac]

Since the TV in the darkroom thread has started back up, I thought it would be neat to bring this one back to life.

I have been listening to the following during my last few printing and film development sessions.

1) Still got CCR's greatest hits in the changer
2) Nelly Furtado (sp?)
3) Bush
4) Giants Baseball games (Hum baby!)
5) Right wing talk radio (for pure entertainment)

how about you?

 

[Francesco]

The Simpsons reruns.

www.cicoli.com

 

[Flotsam]

1) Whatever CDs I may have found in the cut-out bins recently or some old faves.
2) WFUV from Fordham U. in NYC (streaming on my computer)
3) The Majority Report or The O'Franken Factor on Air America (Streaming, again)

 

[kwmullet]

During printing, I listen to talk radio only, since I use a metronome as a enlarger timer. Usually NPR, but I like to peruse AM talk, too. Interesting thought about Phillip Glass. Maybe he could suffice for a metronome.

When I process film, which I nearly always do by inspection, I use my Gralab, so I've either got the local university jazz station or the local classical station on.

-KwM-

 

[sparx]

This week i have mostly been listening to White Stripes, Jet and Muse.

 

[Grady O]

The White Stripes are always good listening.

 

[Leon]

definitely Zep - although I like to listen to the more acousticy mellow songs in the darkroom, like Bron-y-awr and black mountainside - rocking out to black dog or good times bad times isnt overly conducive to calm contemplative thought processes. Other than that, Philip Glass is definitely good, Gillian Welch, Afro-Celts - and many, many others.

I cant beleive that Les knows Pagey - some friends and I are trying to start up a zep covers band - can you give him a call and see if he want to join

 

[matt miller]

Dan Reeder & Johnny Cash are my current favorites

 

[John McCallum]

I like a bit of variation depending on where the mood takes me. Devpg negs I go by the recipie - will listen to anything to stop the boredom. But printing demands a state of mind so I find Guns & Roses doesn't really work for me. Greig to Sting, and often a good chillout like Cafe del Mar (vol neuf).

Usually mixed with the cat meowing at the door lately (she's 18yrs old and likes company).

 

[David R Munson]

Depends entirely on my mood and what I'm doing. When I'm printing 35mm b&w stuff, which tends to be street photography and night images, I stick to things like The Kills, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Turbonegro, and if I'm really going for something edgy I'll put in some Merzbow. Film is often developed to Unified Theory. If I'm in a quieter mood it might be Marumari, Lali Puna, Sarah McLachlan, etc. No telling in advance, really.

 

[bmac]

Depends entirely on my mood and what I'm doing. When I'm printing 35mm b&w stuff, which tends to be street photography and night images, I stick to things like The Kills, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Turbonegro, and if I'm really going for something edgy I'll put in some Merzbow. Film is often developed to Unified Theory. If I'm in a quieter mood it might be Marumari, Lali Puna, Sarah McLachlan, etc. No telling in advance, really.

What?!@?!@?! No Fugazi?

 

[Cheryl Jacobs]

.....and I've now moved on to the two Josh Groban CD's for darkroom work. 'Un Amore Per Sempre' and 'Al Improviso' can absolutely make a print soar.

 

[David R Munson]

What?!@?!@?! No Fugazi?

Well, I did listen to Fugazi last time I made prints of photos from their 2002 concert at Fort Reno Park, but as much as I love 'em, they just never come to mind when I'm in the darkroom. Go figure.

 

[liza]

Filmdeveloping needs uplifting music so then I have African Rythms togehter with some Jonny Clegg CD´s (bring back memories from travelling/bushcamping around Southern Africa-a happy time sleeping out on bare ground with Southern Cross twinkling me to sleep whildst campfire fading) mixed with a radiochannel for 60ies or a hitlistchannel. Real serious copying need serious Opera with passion and/or various Classical Music with a special love to Vivaldi Spring and his Fluteconcertos OR if I am in a stress, then it´s one of my meditative music Cd´s.
Tv in the darkroom - not in this life.

 

[Flotsam]

Since getting back into the darkroom, I find myself picking through the "cheapo" bins in bookstores and supermarkets a lot more. Have picked up some great older stuff that way.

 

[papagene]

If it's film developing during the week - I listen to WFCR and Tom Reiny's Jazz-ala- Mode. If I am printing during the weekend, it's either jazz CD's (almost any genre) or blues CD's, from the earliest practitioners to Buddy Guy and everything in between.
I try not to listen to the blues while developing film - errr - I seem to over develop the stuff!
gene

 

[Flotsam]

I try not to listen to the blues while developing film
gene

Good idea. All black and white films are blues sensitive.

 

[hitcher]

Shadowfax album "Shadowfax" It is very ethereal.

Howlin Wolf when I am in a blues mood.

Beatles for the rest of the time.

 

[shinn]

Earlier setting up and drinking my double espresso it was Liquid Soul (live).

Right now...it's the Dead live somewhere in the 70's, on a cassette now thats analog.

Later...today, maybe some live Wide Spread Panic or Pink Floyd.......a dark room staple for me. Lots of live music in my collection.

Happy Days

 

[mobtown_4x5]

There is a program on my local NPR affiliate called "Hearts of Space"- perfect for printing, I have done my best work with this.

 

[wfwhitaker]

This will sound really snooty, but... Classical music is a much better darkroom companion for me than any other aural entertainment. English composers and Bach for the piano are especially good for helping to bring on a mood which I find conducive for creative work. I can almost feel my blood pressure drop a few notches.

 

[Adrian Twiss]

I listen to BBC Radio 4 in the darkroom. I enjoy listening to the Archers omnibus when I print on Sunday mornings. How sad can you get?

 

[modafoto]

I'm a metallic youngster so a lot of metal finds it's way into my darkroom.
Else, it is Pink Floyd. Depending on my mood anything from their psychedelic start to the new stuff.

Viva System of a Down!

 

[BWGirl]

I listen to the glorious sound of silence... literally. But my brain is constatnly working so there's enough going on in there without adding more.

I need all the concentration I can get! haha

Jeanette