Distraction free with Symphonic Rock

It is time for another #ThreeTuneTuesday. For those not familiar with it, here's an explanation.

About 114 Weeks ago @ablaze started this incredible movement:

Every Tuesday I'm going to share 3 songs which I like to listen to and I invite your feedback in the comments below. Or why not have a blast of your own Three Tune Tuesday and mention me in the post and I'll come and find the post and hopefully upvote it. It'll be a sweet way for us all to discover new music.

Today I will break my pattern of having some German connection. Or maybe someone will find one anyway?

Over the last few days I spent a lot of time writing code, mostly Python, and it brought back a lot of memories from the days when that was my daily job roughly twenty years ago.

Back then I used to listen to music while doing so. Mostly on headphones as not to disturb my colleagues. It had to be loud, that helped me to get lost in my own thoughts without being distract by any other noises.

I already told you how I came to know Blind Guardian in a previous post and it was around the time when I started working as a programmer. That music was and still is perfect for me to listen to while writing code.

Of course I needed more such music as not to get too bored over time if I was to listen to it all the time while working. And with my knack for blues the bridge to Nightwish was built quickly when I was presented with their cover of the Gary Moore classic "Over the Hills and Far Away"

So I entered the realm of "Symphonic Rock" as some people I came to know call it.

I was intrigued, this new kind of music seemed to be the perfect mix. Fast beats and riffs combined with a slow melodic opera like voice. And after I learned about Nightwish it did not take very long (I think five minutes or so) until I was introduced to Within Temptation.

I feel like all this music brings out the creative touch I sometimes need to find the right way or understanding for a mathematical proof or another edge to tackle an algorithmic problem.

And whenever someone is trying to argue with me that math and music don't mix well, I point them to the story of the Pythagorean hammers. Even though it is just a legend, it shows how much math is in music and why should it not be the other way around?

Thank you for reading and keep on rocking 🤘

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