You may be into John Adams, Century Rolls or Shaker Loops
How about Ravel’s Bolero?
While a cite from Wiki is hardly proof, it’s an indication at least that I’m not the only person who hears it that way.
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Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy suite is like that. Some of the pieces are entirely in weird meters:
Lord Melbourne - doesn’t even have a time signature at the outset. At others the signature shifts into 1.5/4 and 2.5/4.
Rufford Park Poachers - I can’t remember what signatures it’s in, but they are definitely odd.
And a couple of the rest have a spot or two where the meter will suddenly change from something common to something odd and then go back again. Horkstow Grange, my favorite in the suite, switches between 4/4 and 5/4.
This sounds very like a priceless moment I had not long ago, while teaching a very polite, demure 14-year-old girl: “…this bit is Beethoven fucking about with the audience, so what you need to…hang on, did I just say that?”
Sorry to wake this one up (though I suspect it’s not dead, just… resting), but I was listening to some stuff here, and I have… (counts)… six words for you: Ravel’s piano concerto in G major.
‘E’s pinin’ for the fjords!
More thanks to everyone for their recommendations. I’m trying to give each suggestion an honest listen, including the ones that I’m already familiar with. So far the ones that best match my ideal are the Stravinsky and Grainger pieces.
I liked jovan’s idea of Baroque music that’s been choppily spliced. If anyone still has the energy to reply, does that description ring any more bells?
When you write “recommend me some trippy classical music” are you asking for someone to recommend **you **to some trippy classical music? Or are you asking for someone to recommend some trippy classical music to you? It is not clear from the heading of your thread.
As the former intention is rather nonsensical I suspect your intention is the latter. In which case you could have simply stated: “recommend some trippy classical music”. Or, if you felt compelled to specify that any recommendations would be for you: "recommend some trippy classical music* to me**."*
It isn’t classical—I think—but listen to the introduction to “One Night in Bangkok.”
No, according to a teacher I knew (who knew waaaay too much about the English language), the O.P. is correct as stated. The “to/for” is implied for an indirect object. Rephrasing it as ILM suggests merely changes “me” to the object of a preposition.
Whether or not it fits your prescriptivist worldview, “recommend me” is a usage that is hallowed by tradition here at the SDMB.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to quickly check whether the car needs washed and find out where the Harvard library’s at. Hopefully you understand.
Careful though. Ives liked dissonance, and not just the harmonic kind, but clash. He was the original two-radios-tuned-to-different-stations man, before there even were radios.
I do distantly recall one or two little folky-type tunes he did in off-meters, though.
Yeah, listening to Ives is sometimes like listening to a symphony concert in a New England town while a church choir rehearses next door and a brass band goes marching down the street outside. I don’t know whether he played around with meter, but he sure played around with some things.
I think this could be somewhat misunderstood. Listening to Ives is hardly like taking on Xenakis or Stockhausen (brilliant though those two are). Bach liked dissonance. Really scrunchy clashing moments. We’re just more familiar with them. Ives fits in perfectly with the OP’s request for:
Don’t know whether it classifies as classical, but how about the theme from The Exorcisthttp://youtube.com/watch?v=bYmIKcP7Nbc
You might like Zappa’s The Yellow Shark. It’s strictly chamber music, not rock. It does get harmonically thorny in parts, but it has polyrhythm in spades, and several selections fit the ‘chopped up Baroque music’ description to a T.
Here’s a YouTube video that has some rehearsal footage. It’s shot in kind of an oblique. arty way, but you can get a good sense of the music at least.
Just missed the editing window! I wanted to add that there is some not-safe-for-work language towards the end of that video.
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The first thing I thought of when I read the OP was Philip Glass’s Prelude To Akhnaten from his Violin Concerto. You can listen to it, and lots of other stuff in streaming audio, here under listen/watch. It is a really weird piece in which the same musical figure is repeated over and over with changes in emphasis that seem make the whole hypnotic and trick the ear into hearing non-existent changes of rhythm. It is a really clever trick.