Thanks, Ngaire and Tricia!

Michele,

I also like African music. Especially from Mali and Senegal. Not sure exactly what style you like but here are a few I really enjoy. Oumou Sangare, Pape & Cheikh, Orchestra Baobab, and Mamani Keita & Marc Minelli.

Hi Enzie,

I think we would have a lot of fun if we were ever to paint together. Although we'd probably get more dancing done than painting! Love club mixes too, and listen to techno and loungy techno. Thanks for listing the ones you listen to, I will try to find them.

Its a pretty eclectic mix here too. Lots of world music, mostly African and South American, classical, techno, the Beatles, jazz, to Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole, and the radio some times too.

I also like African music, especially fast stuff for when I work out. I have a CD called "Les Quatres Etoiles de Zaire" that's good for exercising, but is much too fast for me to paint to.

I had a teacher who used to quote somebody who said something to the effect of... "If I listen to classical music when I paint, it makes me think I'm painting much better than I am!" Notice I only half listened to my teacher while I was painting because I can't remember who he said, said that.

I find a certain musical quality in the sound of my brush on the canvas and the sound of my breathing when I paint. This is when I'm "in there" = inside the painting. I guess at that point I am the painting and it is me. Nothing else exists. There are times, however, when I'm not ready for that level of immersion, then I listen to blue grass, soul, or classical music.

Jen said when she looks at a painting she sometimes remembers the book she was listening to at the time she painted it. I have the same thing happen when I play the piano. If a thought occurs on a certain note when I am learning a new piece, that thought will forever repeat itself at exactly that note every-time I play the song. Funny thing the brain is.