In response to a comment on our Debussy video, Dr Ben sends you on a trip with his prescriptions for psychedelic classical music! Apologies for the sound quality.
Great recomendations, I agree with all of them. I would personally add into the psychedelic classical genre: - Rautavaara (Probably Sibelius best student) - Erik Satie (Who also inspired Debussy sound) - György Ligeti (Athmospheres used in 2001 Space Odyssey is pretty psychedelic) - Jonny Greenwood (The Master OST is really dreamy and Debussy inspired) - Some Bela Bartok´s works are pretty eerie and mind-bending (Pe-loc and his music for strings percussion and celesta)
Fantastic suggestions - thank you. Ligeti needs to get better known outside of classical music fans. And Rautavaara is an extremely cool left field suggestion! Great!
My favourite psychedelic piece besides the one you recommended has to be "Music for mallet instruments, voices and organ" by Steve Reich... Absolutely mesmerising.
Berlioz, Satie, Debussy, Ravel, the Minimalists and Scriabin are all excellent choices...I may add, Varese, Xenakis, Alan Hovhaness, and especially...Morton Feldman
I have a psychedelic piece to recommend: Sinfonia domestica. It is so... weird. It has a narrative, motifs, and a developing story much like Symphonie fantastique. It's supposed to depict a family and it sounds so chaotic and trippy sometimes.
I really have to second the Scriabin suggestion ... especially the later _poèmes_ und _morceaux._ Maria Lettberg gives them an organic feel, as if the music itself were alive and breathing. Intense!
I discovered Scriabin’s late piano works during a dark period some 30 years ago and it was life altering. I was dreaming of a different, more intoxicating, more beautiful world and then I realized that he had already created it. Indescribable music.👍
Could you do an explanation of Petrushka by Stravinsky? It's another part of the Ballet Russe by Diaghilev, and I'd like to know deep into its development and story of the ballet!
Have you ever heard of the the album Days of Future Passed by The Moody Blues? It is an album that is a mix of Psychedelic Prog rock and classical symphonies, making a quirky but interesting album. You should definitely check it out if you have the time!
You're explanations are unrivaled on RUclips. A classics explained suggestions would be Camille saints-saen's 'Danse Macabre', it's my favourite classical piece.
My tastes are more towards Nuggets era garage and freakbeat, but this is a good guide to psychedelic classical music. I’m even thinking of suggesting a Victorian psychedelic ball to the organisers of the Proms, just to see how they react. There’s also a really good video on RUclips about the history of psychedelic music from Varese right the way through to music concrete through psychedelic soul to acid house and Shoegaze.
I really can imagine how fascinating this experience must have been to Debussy. It was to me, too, but unfortunately wasn't live. It should be pointed out that Gamelan music is also using other tonal systems and intonations that might sound really odd to some ears. So I'm really happy Debussy was open enough to take this experience as an inspiration and enrichment to his own compositions. I guess many other composers might have just thought this was weird out of tune music and the superior Western classical music doesn't need any taste of that. As I love both styles I like to add that in my opinion psychedelic and western classical music have lots in common. Psychedelic music other than most popular music is often taking its time to tell stories, draw pictures through its musical content and invites the listener to a journey. Several songs can be heard or even were composed in movements (just not necessarily divided by silence), parts can be very different in dynamics and intensity, tonality. Just a big difference is the lack of improvisation in classical music and in live situations the physical experience is different. Some years ago I was performing in the piece "Marco Polo - La Ruta de la seda" by Luis Serrano Alarcón" where a drug trip is performed by the orchestra.
Wow.. you mentioned Scriabin whom I only knew by name, so I found his 24 Preludes, Op.11... and LOVED them. I am a trained Baroque artist, so Scriabin was a treat I might never have heard apart from your "drug induced" recommendation!-haha Thanks Benjamin.
I am so, so happy you took the plunge! That's what this channel is for. Scriabin can be quite tough to get into. For Baroque psychedelia, I actually Gesualdo is a good one!
Very interesting! If Scriabin hadn't died too early, he would have taken classical in a much different (and I would speculate better) direction than Schoenberg and Cage and all them.
I think I could recommend just about all of these suggestions to heavy metal fans as well, with metal being sort of a cousin to both psychedelic and prog rock. (Holst's "Mars: Bringer of War" famously inspired the boys in Black Sabbath to write what many would consider the first heavy metal song, "Black Sabbath", on the first heavy metal album of the same name!) I was just writing yesterday about how "The Rite of Spring" was "one of the most metal ballets ever!", and also about just how weird and nightmarishly trippy the whole production was, between the strange, discordant music, the bizarre choreography, and the surreal stage designs and costumes, and heavy metal does owe a debt in part to the futurist and avant-garde aspects of some of the modern "classical" music (absorbed into metal in part through metal bands' interest in horror movie soundtracks) - I think much the same could be said for psychedelic rock as well, for example the wonderfully heavy long versions of Iron Butterfly's supremely psychedelic "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida", to my ear, fits right into the avant-garde and futurist aesthetic, while a lot of Pink Floyd's darker music (e.g. "Atom Heart Mother") haunts that strange middle ground shared between psychedelica, the stranger side of prog, the trippier side of heavy music, and the avant-garde side of "classical" music....
I don't like the dub music that they always try and associate with psycadellics. I listen to renaissance, medieval and classical while tripping. The synisthisia from tripping makes this the ideal type of music. My favorite thing to do is mix poppy tea , magic mushrooms and some cannabis edibles, and close my eyes and listen to this beauty.
I once remember interviewing a very well-known, now-deceased member of the Warhol Factory. He was an avant-garde filmmaker. I asked him whether he ever used drugs, given how commonplace hard drugs were on that scene. His response: "Never used them. Listening to Mahler gave me the same high!"
@@ClassicsExplained Yeah, I also know many stories like that, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull banned them from being consumed by members of the band, and I myself never feel attracted to them, and aside from their ultimate effects on your body and mind is that I personally never liked this scenario of "disconnect your mind and numb your body". At least for me, an artistic experience needs to be an intellectual one, so I like to have my mind in the right place and being capable of using it when I listen to music.
I could not agree more, Wilhelm. Some people claim to gauge some deeper intellectual "understanding" by "turning off, relaxing and going downstream" but personally I've never got that. I think engagement with music needs to be active too - rather than passive. This is why I can rarely play classical music "in the background" whilst working - it is very much about engagement with the experience, rather than wallpaper. Thanks for the comment :)
@@ClassicsExplained Oh woah, now I'm the one who could not agree more. I also never liked listen music while doing other stuff, I can't concentrate like that, the act of appreciation is actually a very focused and concentration-demanding one. No problem, is always good having conversations in this channel.
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Could you do a Classics explained of Ravel's: Daphnis et Chloé? Please, it's a beautiful piece, but I want to learn more about it!
Love this piece so much
And Gaspard de la nuit !!!
I micro-dose lsd for depression and anxiety. It works. Ravel and Debussy are two of the best composers to listen to while dosing.
i just LOVE the expressions and body gestures when you're conveying any message. really cute.
Definitely Scriabin's 4th Sonata - really feels like he's creating something completely new right in front of you.
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I like these small bits. Keep them coming!
Thanks :)
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Great recomendations, I agree with all of them. I would personally add into the psychedelic classical genre:
- Rautavaara (Probably Sibelius best student)
- Erik Satie (Who also inspired Debussy sound)
- György Ligeti (Athmospheres used in 2001 Space Odyssey is pretty psychedelic)
- Jonny Greenwood (The Master OST is really dreamy and Debussy inspired)
- Some Bela Bartok´s works are pretty eerie and mind-bending (Pe-loc and his music for strings percussion and celesta)
Fantastic suggestions - thank you. Ligeti needs to get better known outside of classical music fans. And Rautavaara is an extremely cool left field suggestion! Great!
If you like Bartok, I reccomend King Crimson's album Larks' Tongues in Aspic, especially the first and last songs
@@bungalmcmoistal8524 I was just listening to that album a few days and you are totally right. Thanks for the sugestion.
I’d love to see a classics explained of Prokofiev’s 5th and Mahler symphonies :)
My favourite psychedelic piece besides the one you recommended has to be "Music for mallet instruments, voices and organ" by Steve Reich... Absolutely mesmerising.
I would love to see this show. Psychedelic music is my bag.
Love your videos- keep up the good work!
Berlioz, Satie, Debussy, Ravel, the Minimalists and Scriabin are all excellent choices...I may add, Varese, Xenakis, Alan Hovhaness, and especially...Morton Feldman
I have a psychedelic piece to recommend: Sinfonia domestica. It is so... weird. It has a narrative, motifs, and a developing story much like Symphonie fantastique. It's supposed to depict a family and it sounds so chaotic and trippy sometimes.
Thanks so much for this - what I love about this suggestion is that this is the tone poem I know least well by Strauss!
Bring on Berlioz!
Janacek’s weird and amazing music also comes to mind, Sinfonietta and Glagolitic mass
Dude, I've got very hyped about the next video...
Very interesting, looking forward to watching your video about the symphonie fantastique !
I really have to second the Scriabin suggestion ... especially the later _poèmes_ und _morceaux._ Maria Lettberg gives them an organic feel, as if the music itself were alive and breathing. Intense!
Thank you for this!
@@ClassicsExplained Thank _you_ for your fantastic content! Looking forward to the Berlioz
Please do “Prince Igor” I really like the transition from Borodin’s work to Mussorsky’s and Korsakov’s.
Bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and King crimson used Classical musical ideas mixed with Psychedelics of the 60s.
This was so good, I will follow the prescription. Also Béla Bartók has some really good stuff . His string quartets opens new spheres.
Fantastic suggestion - a few people have mentioned Bartok. Love his stuff
An interesting theme to me.
I discovered Scriabin’s late piano works during a dark period some 30 years ago and it was life altering. I was dreaming of a different, more intoxicating, more beautiful world and then I realized that he had already created it. Indescribable music.👍
Fantastic!
Or you could really go on a trip and listen to these while on Psychedelics! Best of both worlds
Thanks for subtitling😎
Could you do an explanation of Petrushka by Stravinsky? It's another part of the Ballet Russe by Diaghilev, and I'd like to know deep into its development and story of the ballet!
Stockhausen puts me in the best headspace
Big fan of the helicopter quartet here!
So glad to see you guys still growing! Keep it up!
Have you ever heard of the the album Days of Future Passed by The Moody Blues? It is an album that is a mix of Psychedelic Prog rock and classical symphonies, making a quirky but interesting album. You should definitely check it out if you have the time!
Reccomend it as well, the 1970s prog rock movement was really influenced by classical music
Yes! Thanks for this - great observation/suggestion
You're explanations are unrivaled on RUclips. A classics explained suggestions would be Camille saints-saen's 'Danse Macabre', it's my favourite classical piece.
This is really very much appreciated! I’m currently researching and writing a saint-Saens script :)
My tastes are more towards Nuggets era garage and freakbeat, but this is a good guide to psychedelic classical music. I’m even thinking of suggesting a Victorian psychedelic ball to the organisers of the Proms, just to see how they react. There’s also a really good video on RUclips about the history of psychedelic music from Varese right the way through to music concrete through psychedelic soul to acid house and Shoegaze.
Maurice Duruflé's requiem is pretty psychadelic I think
Mr Handsome is back 😍😍😍
Daphnis and Chloe please???
Arvo Part, Schnittke, Ciurlionis
All great suggestions
Saint-Saëns bassoon sonata definitely, I sure you it's awesome even for not bassoonists, moreover it's op.168 which means he wrote it before dying
Great suggestion!
I really can imagine how fascinating this experience must have been to Debussy. It was to me, too, but unfortunately wasn't live. It should be pointed out that Gamelan music is also using other tonal systems and intonations that might sound really odd to some ears. So I'm really happy Debussy was open enough to take this experience as an inspiration and enrichment to his own compositions. I guess many other composers might have just thought this was weird out of tune music and the superior Western classical music doesn't need any taste of that.
As I love both styles I like to add that in my opinion psychedelic and western classical music have lots in common. Psychedelic music other than most popular music is often taking its time to tell stories, draw pictures through its musical content and invites the listener to a journey. Several songs can be heard or even were composed in movements (just not necessarily divided by silence), parts can be very different in dynamics and intensity, tonality. Just a big difference is the lack of improvisation in classical music and in live situations the physical experience is different.
Some years ago I was performing in the piece "Marco Polo - La Ruta de la seda" by Luis Serrano Alarcón" where a drug trip is performed by the orchestra.
Thanks so much for this really thoughtful and fascinating comment - yes, some admirably open ears and open mind
Had no idea this guy would be this hot
do u think Julian Carrillo's music may be called "Psychedelic"? early 20th century composer.
Lovely videos u got on this channel
Could you do a video on pierrot lunaire? Its a haunting cycle
Wow.. you mentioned Scriabin whom I only knew by name, so I found his 24 Preludes, Op.11... and LOVED them. I am a trained Baroque artist, so Scriabin was a treat I might never have heard apart from your "drug induced" recommendation!-haha Thanks Benjamin.
I am so, so happy you took the plunge! That's what this channel is for. Scriabin can be quite tough to get into. For Baroque psychedelia, I actually Gesualdo is a good one!
@@ClassicsExplained I listened to more Scriabin today and really enjoyed it. Oh yes.. Gesualdo...me no likey him!
Very interesting! If Scriabin hadn't died too early, he would have taken classical in a much different (and I would speculate better) direction than Schoenberg and Cage and all them.
Great observation
I think I could recommend just about all of these suggestions to heavy metal fans as well, with metal being sort of a cousin to both psychedelic and prog rock. (Holst's "Mars: Bringer of War" famously inspired the boys in Black Sabbath to write what many would consider the first heavy metal song, "Black Sabbath", on the first heavy metal album of the same name!) I was just writing yesterday about how "The Rite of Spring" was "one of the most metal ballets ever!", and also about just how weird and nightmarishly trippy the whole production was, between the strange, discordant music, the bizarre choreography, and the surreal stage designs and costumes, and heavy metal does owe a debt in part to the futurist and avant-garde aspects of some of the modern "classical" music (absorbed into metal in part through metal bands' interest in horror movie soundtracks) - I think much the same could be said for psychedelic rock as well, for example the wonderfully heavy long versions of Iron Butterfly's supremely psychedelic "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida", to my ear, fits right into the avant-garde and futurist aesthetic, while a lot of Pink Floyd's darker music (e.g. "Atom Heart Mother") haunts that strange middle ground shared between psychedelica, the stranger side of prog, the trippier side of heavy music, and the avant-garde side of "classical" music....
I can send the playlists that inlilento use when tripping.
Can you do Ma Vlast (My Fatherland) by Bedrich Smetana
Scriabin Sonata 8...
Oh my 😍 ur cute
Excellent work on your videos. Not that I am nit-picking or anything, but u r pronouncing Shankar as Shænkār, when it is supposed to be Shənkər.
Thanks!
@@ClassicsExplained ur welcome. 😁
I am confused ngl
I don't like the dub music that they always try and associate with psycadellics.
I listen to renaissance, medieval and classical while tripping.
The synisthisia from tripping makes this the ideal type of music.
My favorite thing to do is mix poppy tea , magic mushrooms and some cannabis edibles, and close my eyes and listen to this beauty.
And remember don't use drugs!
I once remember interviewing a very well-known, now-deceased member of the Warhol Factory. He was an avant-garde filmmaker. I asked him whether he ever used drugs, given how commonplace hard drugs were on that scene. His response: "Never used them. Listening to Mahler gave me the same high!"
@@ClassicsExplained Yeah, I also know many stories like that, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull banned them from being consumed by members of the band, and I myself never feel attracted to them, and aside from their ultimate effects on your body and mind is that I personally never liked this scenario of "disconnect your mind and numb your body".
At least for me, an artistic experience needs to be an intellectual one, so I like to have my mind in the right place and being capable of using it when I listen to music.
I could not agree more, Wilhelm. Some people claim to gauge some deeper intellectual "understanding" by "turning off, relaxing and going downstream" but personally I've never got that. I think engagement with music needs to be active too - rather than passive. This is why I can rarely play classical music "in the background" whilst working - it is very much about engagement with the experience, rather than wallpaper. Thanks for the comment :)
@@ClassicsExplained Oh woah, now I'm the one who could not agree more. I also never liked listen music while doing other stuff, I can't concentrate like that, the act of appreciation is actually a very focused and concentration-demanding one.
No problem, is always good having conversations in this channel.