...or not

Morcheeba

I never lok for relaxation in music, I must admit

lok = look

but you ocudl try SIgur Ros, or MOgwai?

Music is usually a very engaging thing to me. I get sucked into the beats, even in classical. But there is some orchestral music I can ...

... relax to. Bethoven, Brahms, are the ones I can think of off hand that has music I can relax too, but it would take some searching...

I guess there is a difference between relaxing and calming... Classical is usually relaxing to me, and the subset I was talking about is...

... The calming stuff. Rap and hard rock are probably about the least relaxing to me.

I use music to lift up mostly. I would have to go through my library to find something "relaxing".

I think w/ most composers it would depend on the piece! I doubt any opening mvmnts of Beethoven string qusrtets are 'relaxing'!

try some arvo part, perhaps? or mozart serenades?

I'm listening to some relaxing pretty Hayden right now. Symphony #88 in G.

Thanks guys, you are great.

Yeah, I am not looking for anything particularly "calming", something that engages my mind while I do work is great.

Classical has the best chance of doing that, but sometimes the variations between one piece and the other can be distracting for me.

listening to the finale of Swan lake right now

vanlal: Nice.

I am not sure what you mean by 'relaxing', I guess

Perhaps you're looking more for "chill out" music?

True, I guess relaxing is ambiguous in this case. Something that I can listen to and it will keep my brain from wandering off when I work

or that would keep my brain from thinking of thousands of thoughts (about the same thing) for hours.