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Roaratorio ; Laughtears ; Writing for the second time through Finnegans wake / John Cage.

Author/creator Cage, John
Format Audio (CD) and Musical Sound Recording
Publication InfoKew Gardens, NY : Mode Records, ℗1992.
Description2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject(s)
Cage, John--Interviews.
Schöning, Klaus--Interviews.
Radio plays with music.
Aleatory music.
Electronic music.
Other author/creatorHeaney, Joe, 1919-1984, singer.
Other author/creatorEnnis, Seamus, instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorGlackin, Paddy instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorMalloy, Matt, instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorMercier, Peadher, instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorMercier, Mel, instrumentalist.
Other author/creatorSchöning, Klaus, narrator.
Other author/creatorJoyce, James, 1882-1941. Finnegans wake.
Uniform titleRoaratorio
General noteMode Records: mode 28/29 (on container back: mode 28/9).
General noteRoaratorio (for speaker, Irish musicians and 62-track tape) is a radio play made up of selected lines from Joyce's Finnegans wake, and electronically manipulated recorded sounds mentioned in the novel. Laughtears is a conversation on Roaratorio; Writing for the second time... is a reading of the text of Roaratorio.
General noteVocal portions of the 1st work performed in English or Gaelic.
General noteCompact discs.
General noteDurations: 60:30 ; 30:55 ; 59:39
General noteProgram notes and text of Laughtears, all in English with, in part, French and German translations ([76] p. : ill.), and text of Roaratorio/Writing ([40] p. : ill.) included.
Performer In Roaratorio: John Cage, speaker ; Joe Heaney, singer ; Seamus Ennis, uillean pipes ; Paddy Glackin, fiddle ; Matt Malloy, flute ; Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier, bodhran. In Laughtears: John Cage, Klaus Schöning, speakers. In Writing...: John Cage, speaker.
Date/time/place of a event noteRoaratorio originally broadcast Oct. 22, 1979, WDR3-Hörspielstudio; Laughtears originally recorded in Paris, Aug. 13-15, 1979.
Other titleRoaratorio.
Other titleLaughtears.
Other titleWriting for the second time through Finnegans wake.
UPC 764593002826
Publisher numbermode 28/29 Mode Records
Publisher number28/29 Mode Records
Publisher numbermode 28/9 Mode Records
Publisher number28/9 Mode Records

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