Surrealism

I am becoming increasingly interested in this idea of the sonically surreal. I rejected surrealism for decades as it always seemed so frivolous to me, but, again thanks to the calming influence of the English surrealists over our more bold European cousins, I am beginning to see its application having a potential in my work.
I have been looking in particular at the earlier experiments by Paul Nash and Roland Penrose. It struck me that their surrealistic tendences served their work better once they had experimented with 'full-blown' surrealism and then used that experience to suffuse the following work with surrealistic elements. Often the surreal and the abstract merge, and for me, this is a benefit to the work.