Music which uses unexpected juxtapositions and other surrealist techniques. Max Paddison defines surrealist music as that which "juxtaposes its historically devalued fragments in a montage-like manner which enables them to yield up new meanings within a new aesthetic unity." Modes of automatism, including improvisation, and collage are primary techniques of musical surrealism. Paddison quotes Theodor Adorno as saying, "Insofar as surrealist composing makes use of devalued means, it uses these as devalued means, and wins its form from the 'scandal' produced when the dead suddenly spring up among the living."
