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Musical Surrealism arose primarily as a reaction against Contented Music, the music of the salon, the cult of the virtuoso, the art of tonal tranquilization. It was greatly influenced by the nihilistic spirit of destruction preached by the Dadaists.
The term Surrealism was actually first used in 1917 to describe a piece of music – Erik Satie’s score for the ballet Parade. However, many Surrealists, including the founder André Breton, chose not to include music in their new movement.
3 days ago · A Little History of Surreal Music. Released On: 13 Oct 2024. Available for over a year. Ian McMillan finds out why Breton was wrong to exclude music from the Surrealist project. Read more.
Kevin Barnes' lyrics often reference surrealist art, but his music displays surrealist tendencies on a deeper level as well, especially on the album Skeletal Lamping, which with its frenetic changes in mood feels like being inside someone's unconscious, bouncing around through crazy sexual fantasies and claustrophobic anxieties - reality ...
Surrealist music is music which uses unexpected juxtapositions and other surrealist techniques. Discussing Theodor W. Adorno, Max Paddison defines surrealist ...
Surrealist music is music which uses unexpected juxtapositions and other surrealist techniques. Anne LeBaron (2002, p.27) cites automatism, including improvisation, and collage as the primary techniques of musical surrealism.
Mar 26, 2013 · The enduring popularity of the song shows the taste that there is among many fans of contemporary music for absurdity, for surrealism, for Kafkaesque landscapes and for sheer silliness – something that seems endlessly to be missed by critics who much prefer the serious high road to fun, laughter, surrealism and Kafka.
