Drugs and Music
 

Terry Riley, was regarded in the 60's as a classical composer. I'm not sure we'd place him there today.
This was revolutionary in the 60's, a time when LSD, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin, and pot were opening minds. Experimentation, breaking out of the status quo was happening everywhere, freaking out those who didn't understand what was happening .
However there's a long list of classical composers who did drugs, Stravinsky, Bernstein, Berlioz and my favourite (although we're not sure which 'herbs' she indulged in) Abbess Hildegard Von Bingen.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3W-3HPMWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YTOiJ-zjP0

https://theconversation.com/the-link...-science-89132

https://popularmusic.pressbooks.com/...and-the-1960s/

Wrong thread. . .

I think it would annoy Aryan Marx if the mods deleted these pointless threads and put all the posts in the "What Are You Listening To?" thread where they belong. So you should do that.

Musicians did drugs. Got it.

I need drugs to make music.

I can do other creative stuff without but yeah my music has been suffering since I moved in with my parents and can't do drugs.

‘Drugs’ covers a wide field. Without maryjane my artistic flair fails me.
However, I’ve been told by viewers that without them being stoned they can’t make any sense out of my art. But should art ‘make sense’ ? Reminds me of working in an open kitchen many decades ago where one of my works hung just on the other side. A group of art lecturers standing in front of my work gave a detailed analysis of what it all meant. Hearing the pretentious bullshXt they came out with I told them they had no idea what they were talking about “How would you know” etc was the response. I took great joy in telling them I was the artist.
They departed in a huff.

Now back to the music. . . .

The obvious answer being "the ones that they do".

Oh yeah I didn’t say.

My drugs are mostly pot, psychedelics and MDMA.

Yeah I’ve had LSD that most certainly was not LSD.

My favourites are the 2Cs, ketamine and shrooms, but I’ll do any psychedelics.

Ayo is this that crazy lady's husband? The one who wouldn't shut up about the Huguenots?

Lol that thought entered my head too. But no, he's gay and Australian

Nah he's the one with the tiny Captain America avatar.

That's literally what I was thinking when I saw the comics he posted in the queer corner thread lol

I don't want to express any opinion regarding drugs now, as I have never tried any. But that's a fact that some music written under drug experience is very catchy and mesmerizing.

Yes, a lot of musicians use drugs, and a lot of them die because of overdose.

I think the drug and music is no match things

Interesting point. I agree that Riley was seen as classical in the ’60s, but today he sits more in that minimalist / experimental space between genres. And you’re right — experimentation (musical and otherwise) was everywhere back then, not just in “non-classical” circles. Plenty of so-called classical composers were pushing boundaries long before the ’60s, with or without chemical inspiration. Labels tend to shift much more than the music itself.

People often think that musical innovation is connected to altered states. However the thing that Terry Riley is really known for is not his connection to the counterculture. His minimalist ideas and rhythmic structures in music. Many composers have thought outside the box in their ways with or, without using substances and it is the music of these composers that people still enjoy today. The music of Terry Riley is an example of this and it continues to inspire people who listen to music.

I like how the tone sounds a bit like NY Post reporting about poor Mojtaba