“In the 1970s, under the influence of LSD, I saw a musical score auto-animate (that is, dance along with itself). However, because musical scores are hard to read, this effect was only possible with simple music. This led to a project I’ve pursued for all my adult life: making musical scores designed to be easy for a listener to follow. Last year (nearly forty years later), I had a chance to look at some of my animated graphical scores under the influence of LSD. Sadly, it wasn’t what I’d hoped for. However, I subsequently got to watch them under the influence of mescaline, and the effect was everything I’d dreamed of. I’ve made hundreds of these videos (which are (which are available at my YouTube channel via the link I provided).”
Indeed Malinowsky’s synesthetic clips, which receive dozens of millions of views counts on YouTube, are a delightful experience, and make the majestic pieces by Strawisnky, Debussy and Beethoven even more enjoyable.
A curious title for a post about top 2013 psychedelic videos. Let me explain…
Many of the best psychedelic videos of 2013 have not yet been published on the DPV. Some of them will only be published in the DPV in 2014 or maybe years in the future. For this reason we composed this complementary list to the Best Psychedelic Videos list of 2013, which includes some of the best psychedelic videos made in the years preceding 2013 but featured and featured on the DPV in 2013.
[[Click here to view the best 20 psychedelic videos created in 2013]]
Psychedelic Music Clips
Tame Impala – Full glass of Wine
A super trippy video by Tame Impala. (Original post).
Peaking Lights – Beautiful Son
If you’re gonna have a child. Do it the psychedelic way. (Original post).
The cutest magical world, inhabited by the cutest magical creatures. (Original post).
Psychedelic visuals
Hinode
Breathtaking computer generated animation of underwater jewelery, by Tetsuka Niiyama. (Original post).
Psychedelic food coloring by Dave Michuda
Some magnificent food coloring visuals. (Original post).
Inspirational Psychedelic Video
Terence Mckenna – The Message
Terence McKenna launces on an inspired rant about the psychedelic experience and it’s meaning to mankind, masterfully mixed with inspiring visuals. (Original post).
Psychedelic Nature Films
Fantastic Fungi: The Forbidden Fruit
Paul Stamets, the world’s foremost mycologist, talks about the incredible world of mushrooms, accompanied by amazing mushroom videos. (Original post).
Psychedelic Animation Films
Dora Kereszstes – Smiling Sad Willow Tree (2001)
Hungarian animator Dora Keresztes in a superb video which mixes European folk motives. (Original post).
Sandor Reisenbuchler – Warnings for every day (1993)
Spectacularly psychedelic animals give us a warning for every day. (Original post).
This year, for the second time, we present you with the psychedelic video Oscars for 2013. After watching around 400 videos which were published on the Daily Psychedelic Video in 2013 (around 30 hours of psychedelic viewing!!!) we chose the 20 best videos of the year (and also included some of those which came close).
Psychedelic Music Clips
Cirrus – Bonobo
Cyriak, the web’s mad genius of consciousness-altering visuals, deconstructs 1950s style visuals and creates a complex swirling web of hypnotic disorientation. (Orignal post).
Libynthth – It’s my beak
A bunch of ducks party wildly and colorfully in a video which reeks of pure mischievous fun. (Original post).
Carpet – Nearly Four
A powerful music clip by Andreas Zimmer to a track by Carpet, with some masterful use of special effects. (Original post).
Anamanaguchi – [MEOW]
This is how it feels to trip in the arcade on a Saturday night. A delightful video to a track by Anamanaguchi. (Original post).
Beta Band – Wonderful
The psychedelic typography to the Beta Band’s “Wonderful” is highly synesthetic and makes this video into a veritable psychedelic love song. (Original post).
Vial of Sound – Lifetime passed
Ori Toor animates a track by Vial of Sound with his unique and mesmerizing style of animation. (Original post).
A deliciously psychedelic cartoon world in this video short from cartoon network. (Original post).
Jack Fried – The Deep End
Jack Fried’s uniquely multi-layered videos take the viewer on a journey into the genealogical realms of the subconscious. (Original post).
Psychedelic Nature films
Bird Ballet
The birds in the sky perform a majestic dance. It’s so easy to lose yourself in the spectacular movement of the flock, and feel yourself dissolving with the multitude which is one. (Original post).
An incredible journey through enchanted fractal realms. (Original post).
Ben Ridgway – Cosmic flower unfolding
Ben Ridgway creates a mesmerizing landscape of phosphorescent mandalic underwater flowers. (Original post).
Burning man time lapse 2013
Burning man festival in fast forward as seen from the heights of Peak Trego. Amazing vistas of movement, shadows, winds and miniscule trucks driving around the playa. The part from around 2:30 looks like the future of humanity as a futuristic intergalactic civilization in space. (Original post).
High Contrast – Spectrum Analyser
A masterful use of the glitch effect which mixes animals and computer imagery into a kicking techno-shamanic journey. (Original post).
Psychedelic Short films
Bianca Giaever – The scared is scared
This is quite possibly the cutest film I’ve ever seen. Bianca Giaever asked a six year old what her movie should be about, then she went about and followed her instructions word for word. Language creates reality.(Original post).
N.A. Brummbaer – Where in the Universe is Timothy Leary
N.A. Brummbaer send us on a fantastic journey in search of Timothy Leary. (Original post).
A night walk in the windy streets of Tel Aviv turns into a ecstatic-meditative journey, following the magical encounter of two plastic bags who wonder the streets together, going on and on in a mystical cyclical bag dance. And for a moment the whole street seems to wake up with vibrant life – joining them in a communal dance of bags, feathers, flowers and even a butterfly. (Original post).
Best pre-2013 psychedelic videos published in 2013
N/A Brummbaer’s YouTube channel is bursting with brilliant and mesmerizing computer-generated visions. “Where in the Universe is Timothy Leary?” goes into the rabbit hole, searching for the lost guru of LSD, and finally reaches the only possible conclusion – “Question authority and think for yourself” – The real Timothy Leary is inside yourself.
Other favorites include a very original take the question of crop circles:
And also one of the finest fractal universes I’ve ever been to:
A night walk in the windy streets of Tel Aviv turns into a ecstatic-meditative journey, following the magical encounter of two plastic bags who wonder the streets together, going on and on in a mystical cyclical bag dance. And for a moment the whole street seems to wake up with vibrant life – joining them in a communal dance of bags, feathers, flowers and even a butterfly.
What I love about this movie, among other things, is it’s sweeping spontaneity: the powerful sense our protagonists radiate (and even I as a viewer have) of witnessing a magical moment – of being in the presence of magic. This magic is very quiet and low-key. It could have easily have gone unnoticed (and indeed is unnoticed by the bypassers and the cars who cross the street), but our two protagonists, ready to explore the mystery of the streets, are rewarded with the subtle poetical magic that makes this scene enchanted.
“Took part in the making/filming/singing of the movie:
yaacov beaton, mihal goldstein, inbar algazi, shira levy, avner amit, keren sheffi.”
An animation short about the hallucinations of a girl with a drug overdose by Koen de Mol, Olivier Ballast and Rick Franssen. The opening scene reminded me a bit of Gaspar Noe’s “Enter the Void” and while the subject matter is more narcotic than psychedelic (you virtually can’t OD on most classic psychedelics like mushrooms or LSD), the hallucinations themselves are pretty spectacular to watch.
Britney’s latest video is one of those clips which take the most exaggerated thing and exaggerate it even more. While many might not see this as psychedelia, having watched this during a psychedelic state of mind, my mind was blown. Decadent psychedelia…
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