Hi all,
Here in C3, we have different areas, and on one of them, which fits about 35 desks, we play music, and is called the music room. It has been really popular!
The level of background noise to allow for conversations to spring about can also be achieved by installing white noise (sounds like HVAC system), it is quite effective, and people jsut think it is something that is part of the building - so people that “can’t” work with music playing wont complain. We have white noise in the rest of the space. We also have a quiet space (where talking isn’t cool), which is our counter part to the music room, so people have freedom to choose where they sit, and it seems to be working quite well for us…
The music room is our “loud” room, so it labeled as being the room where talking on the phone for a long time is ok (we have desks set up with phones actually), play videos, have louder team meetings etc…
If you have big enough a space to have different areas like this, I highly recommend it…
Sidi
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On Monday, August 13, 2012 6:34:49 PM UTC-4, RedRokk wrote:
Hey everyone, I have a quick question I would like to get your perspective on.
We just started offering co-working space here in Bellingham, Washington. Our space fits up to 20 people comfortably, but often times we only have 2 or 3. We have been playing with the idea of adding light background music to the space that would play throughout the day. The target customer is developers, graphic designers, copywriters, and startups. We are wanting to make the space feel a little more active during slower points in the day or week.
I haven’t read anything particular on what kind of music you play.
A piece of advice from our own experience : Jazz. Jazz swings and we all know that SWING is what coworking brings to this world.
In late January we hosted the local Startup Weekend and on Sunday morning, after two tough nights, people were really exhausted. I decided to put some Billie Holiday songs. For those of you who know her, her voice is one of the most powerful music has known. Simple outcome : it gave enough strengh to startupers to carry on until Sunday evening.
Jazz.
prozelitizing time : ). And this is an example among many others.
I haven’t read anything particular on what kind of music you play.
A piece of advice from our own experience : Jazz. Jazz swings and we all know that SWING is what coworking brings to this world.
In late January we hosted the local Startup Weekend and on Sunday morning, after two tough nights, people were really exhausted. I decided to put some Billie Holiday songs. For those of you who know her, her voice is one of the most powerful music has known. Simple outcome : it gave enough strengh to startupers to carry on until Sunday evening.
Jazz.
prozelitizing time : ). And this is an example among many others.
Funny timing - we were just talking about this. We usually use Turntable.fm - feel free to join in if you ever want at turntable.fm/coworkjax. It works out well since it allows the community to vote up/down the song choices and play whatever.
Cheers,
Elton
CoWork Jax
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Fay Easton [email protected] wrote:
Now Billie Holiday I could work with!
Sounds fantastic Nicolas - am a great believer in the power of music to restore the spirit.
I haven’t read anything particular on what kind of music you play.
A piece of advice from our own experience : Jazz. Jazz swings and we all know that SWING is what coworking brings to this world.
In late January we hosted the local Startup Weekend and on Sunday morning, after two tough nights, people were really exhausted. I decided to put some Billie Holiday songs. For those of you who know her, her voice is one of the most powerful music has known. Simple outcome : it gave enough strengh to startupers to carry on until Sunday evening.
Jazz.
prozelitizing time : ). And this is an example among many others.
Nicolas Bergé
Les Satellites
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I am reviving an old thread here to look for some awesome tunes to play in @transformabxl
I noticed that music played in a coworking space at a reasonable level is great to cover the noise of conversations, and conversations between coworkers become less disturbing to the others.
Now on to what to play? I figured that music played should stay quite homogeneous with minimum vocals and no changes that call the attention… I totally agree with Nicolas about Jazz being a great fit for a working environment, deep house is great, chambre pop is good also, acid jazz and jazz mixes are a great fit…
Hence my question, do you guys have good links to mixes I could download, preferably jazzy ones ?
