Most Psychedelic Classical Music?

Just curious. Out of Classical composers of the 19th and 20th century, which would you say composed the most psychedelic sounding classical music? My votes would go for Sibelius and Rimsky Korsakov? What would your choices be?

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But how would you define psychedelic music? As far as I am concerned certain compositions of Cage (Dances) and Reich (Tehillim) belong to the realm of psychedelic (minimal) music. Or am I totally wrong?

I mean Glass of course.

Terry Riley's 'A Rainbow In Curved Air' and 'Descending Moonshine Dervishes' would be great contenders in my book.

Cheers,

i dinn't get the original post. how did he define psychedelic? i would think psychadelic is how ordinary non musical people experience music when they take LSD? wouldn't the evidence, jimmy to jimmy buffet, show that they needn't much music at all to have a psychedelic experience? so, for classical, how about Johann Strauss jr.? pretty swirly. or maybe Bruckner?

Doesn't anybody here do drugs????

I don't think there is an exact definition of 'psychedelic' music. Originally it meant music composed under the influence of substances such as LSD, or the one which causes effect similar to LSD, sort of a 'shift of reality'. One of my favorite rock bands, Jefferson Airplance, composed its best songs during their psychodelic period. Jimi Hendrix is another good example.

I have never associated this style with minimalism or more general with hypnotic-like effect of very simple repetitive structures. So, say, Stockhausen' Stumming is not psychodelic. I wouldn't call minimalism psychodelic either, but once again, this term is not well defined. I can't think of any example of classical music (including 20-century) I can associate with psychodelic. Of course, with classical composers using electric guitar and MIDI, we now have the opportunity to experience a real psychodelic classical music.

Cheers.

What Would Jimi Do? Smash guitar, burn amplifier, take home some groupies ...

the point with drugs, is that they make you passive to experience: any experience is open to you. in the down and dirty, drugs make ordinary people sometimes interesting to talk to cause they actually talk about, say, music, as though music were a reference the foundations of consciousness. in this, they actually take something seriously which is not so important to them before. you'd have had to have been in, say, Berkeley, in the early-early sixties to see how chem majors made LSD and became 'musicians'... hadn't given a fuk about the inventive jazz and classical world right over at Mills College or across the bay... but suddenly became little Beethovens of the guitar. little zappas pushing personality through chemistry.

fuk drugs.

Scriabin. Absolutely no question. Listen to Horowitz playing Vers La Flamme, Op. 72, or Idil Biret's Op. 74 Preludes.

That's easy. It's Mahler.

Best regards, Juergen

Berstein did a young people's concert about the Symphonie Fantastique called 'Mr. Berlioz' Psychedelic Mind Trip' or something like that.

My personal pick would be Debussy, although I also would tend to agree with whomever said Reich.