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Sunday Feature: A Little History of Surreal Music

Series 1, episode 0

When André Breton came to write the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, urging a pure psychic automatism that would bring with it a worldwide revolution in consciousness, he failed to make mention of music. In fact, for the most part he hated music and thought it had no part to play within the surrealist project. In this programme, Ian McMillan argues that the same tenets that underpin surreal writing, including collage, automatic writing and objets trouvés, can and have been applied to music by a whole range of artists and composers, from John Cage to Captain Beefheart and Poulenc to the Beatles. With contributions by cultural historian Andrew Hussey, poet and musician Anthony Joseph, composer and harpist Anne Le Baron, and music lecturer James Donaldson