the science behind lofi music

Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: Have you ever listened to lofi hiphop when you need to study, focus, or relax? Over the past 3 years, lofi stations like ChilledCow/Lofi Girl have grown a community based on that premise. In this video, Sabrina explores why lofi has become the poster child for study music and if it even works. She also tries to teach a machine to generate lofi music and... it wasn’t great. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER SOCIAL MEDIA Sabrina Twitter: Instagram: Melissa Twitter: Instagram: Taha Twitter: Instagram: CREDITS Produced by Sabrina Cruz Video Editing by Joe Trickey Motion Design by Sabrina Cruz Sound Design by Joe Trickey MUSIC Epidemic Sound. Get started today. THUMBNAIL Lofi Girl is an illustration by Juan Pablo Machado for the ChilledCow YouTube channel. RECOMMENDED READING Understanding J Dilla: The Soul of Hip Hop (2020) by Volksgeist Generating Songs With Neural Networks (Neural Composer) (2018) by CodeParade How lo-fi artists make music perfect for work. (Or studying. Or chilling.) (2020) by Steven Johnson TIMESTAMPS 00:00 weird flex but okay 00:26 if another one of yall say i have ADHD, i fight 01:25 research montage is my happy place 01:47 the anatomy of lofi hiphop 02:29 sacrificing myself to the machine 03:25 debugging? more like depressing. 04:37 avoiding my problems 05:15 why lofi music helps you focus 06:49 time to get my code to work! 07:19 i couldn’t get my code to work. 10:44 extracting a lesson from the mess 11:46 share this video with a friend who listens to lofi 11:53 paying the bills ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the joke under the fold! This is a genuinely terrible one. I’m sorry. What’s a rabbit’s favourite genre of music? Hippity hop. I’m so sorry about that one. Leave a comment with the word HOP to let me know you were here ;-)