Still reading this book on Dada and surrealism (well, I guess that's not too surprising as I only started talking about it yesterday), and into a section where they're talking about contrasting techniques between the two. It's interesting that this book doesn't mention music at all (except for a brief reference to John Cage when talking about chance processes), so I was reading about the different techniques used by Dada artists and having a think about Satie's music and wondering what sort of direct connections can be made between pieces like the Musique d'ameublement and collage techniques. Might have to research this a little further and see what I find.

Odd that there are no composers (that I've ever noticed) connected with surrealism, but I guess their return to more traditional media such as oil painting perhaps was not so conducive to musical creation... then again, maybe the equivalent in music to surrealism was atonalism - new mode of expression, old formal structures... hmm... this requires further thought and research, methinks... probably complete poppycock and I'll be hugely embarrassed to come across this post in the future. Um.

# posted by minim @ 12:04 AM