Roaratorio : ein irischer Circus über Finnegans wake
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Roaratorio : ein irischer Circus über Finnegans wake
Athenäum, [1982]
Musical Sound Recording（Sound Cassette）
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Radio play; "an electronic piece built on thousands of sounds mentioned in Joyce's novel"--New Grove dictionary of American music, v. 1, p. 338
"From Finnegan's wake John Cage has extracted mesostics ... terse and fragmentary sequences of words which, by one letter per line, when read downward along the middle axis of the paragraph, make up the name of James Joyce ... The text thus composed ... is being recited by John Cage. Connected with it are not only Irish ballads, jigs and other musics, but also sounds--the ones mentioned by James Joyce himself and ad lib ones recorded at numerous places in Ireland and all over the world that are mentioned in Finnegan's wake, all of them selected and patterned following I-Ging chance operations"--Accompanying book, p. 169
John Cage, narrator ; Joe Heaney, singer ; Seamus Ennis, uillean pipes ; Paddy Glackin, fiddle ; Matt Malloy, flute ; Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier, bodhrans ; realized by John Cage and John David Fullemann at IRCAM, Paris ; produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Stuttgart, and Katholieke Radio Omroep, Hilversum
Recorded from the radio transmission, Oct. 22, 1979, at WDR3-Hörspielstudio, Cologne
Accompanying book contains background material on the work and its production in English and German, including interviews with the composer, and the text of the composer's adaptation of Finnegans wake; the sheet contains further charts and diagrams, in part in the composer's hand and in part computer generated
Contents of Works
- John Cage reading Roaratorio (10:10)
- Roaratorio. Part I (31:53)
- Roaratorio. Part II (28:20)
- Laughtears : John Cage/Klaus Schöning, a conversation (13:55)