Introduction -- Navigating the neosurreal : background and premises -- Neosurrealist tendencies in recent films : Waking life and Be kind rewind -- Neosurrealist metamusicals, flow and camp aesthetics : Yes and The wayward cloud -- Rescoring the moving image : La belle et la bête, mashups and (mis)syncing -- The surrealism of virtual band Gorillaz : "Clint Eastwood" and "Feel Good Inc." -- Performing acoustic music in the digital age, or a surreal twist of fate -- Concluding thoughts : of liquid days and going gaga
Summary
Here, Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore what it means that experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and ultimately visual as much as it is auditory
