Oddly, Breton never made mention of the use and validity of applying
surrealist techniques to the generation of sound, even to the more
organized generation of sound we call 'music.' Early DADA performances
at Cabaret Voltaire and elsewhere developed much of their zeal
and whim with mass pandemonium generated from mass cacophany.
Automatism certainly has its full and perhaps even more relevant
application in music. Picking notes at whim from the interior of a hat may
easily generate a melody of the most automatic purism. Likewise the
perceived voices and sounds heard at the outermost vestiges of sleep
are purely critically paranoid. And who is to say what the true paranoid
schizophenic hears through unseen walls should be disregarded? It is
perhaps the delusional patient in need of medical attention who has reached
the higest plateau of Surrealistic Vision.
Three exercises for developing a Delusional Appreciation of Sound
Music, Sound and the minutely Heard
Contusions and Rythyms to be found on the WWW.
(i only wish i could have that much fun..)