An Eye for Music

John Richardson is Professor of Musicology at the University of Turku in Finland. He is the author of Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten (1999) and has published on popular music, music and visual media, contemporary avant-garde music, and Finnish music.

• Acknowledgments ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Navigating the Neosurreal: Background and Premises ; 3. Neosurrealist Tendencies in Recent Films: Waking Life and Be Kind Rewind ; 4. Neosurrealist Metamusicals, Camp and Reparation: Yes and The Wayward Cloud ; 5. Rescoring the Moving Image: La Belle et la Bete, Mashups and (Mis)syncing ; 6. The Surrealism of Virtual Band Gorillaz: "Clint Eastwood" and "Feel Good Inc." ; 7. Performing Acoustic Music in the Digital Age, or a Surreal Twist of Fate ; 8. Concluding Thoughts: Of Liquid Days and Going Gaga ; Bibliography ; Index

This book unveils the 'audiovisual surreal,' a key emerging tendency in digital audiovisual culture. In zeroing in on his subject in ways both exacting and generous, John Richardson invites the reader to participate in the heady pleasures of theorizing with a bustling crowd that includes Sigmund Freud and Simon Frith, Michel Gondry and Tsai Ming-Liang, Susan Sontag and Georges Bataille, T.W. Adorno and Madonna.