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Roaratorio ; Laughtears ; Writing for the second time through Finnegans wake / John Cage.
LIBRA Mode 28/9 CD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Cage, John.
- Standardized Title:
- Roaratorio
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Irish
- Subjects (All):
- Cage, John--Interviews.
- Cage, John.
- Schöning, Klaus--Interviews.
- Schöning, Klaus.
- Radio plays with music.
- Aleatory music.
- Electronic music.
- Interviews.
- Genre:
- Electronic music.
- Sound recordings.
- Aleatory music.
- Physical Description:
- 2 audio discs (152 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Kew Gardens, NY : Mode Records, [1992]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Participant:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Mode Records: mode 28/29 (on container back: mode 28/9).
- Roaratorio (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.
- Vocal portions of the 1st work performed in English or Gaelic.
- Roaratorio originally broadcast Oct. 22, 1979, WDR3-Hörspielstudio; Laughtears originally recorded in Paris, Aug. 13-15, 1979.
- Compact discs.
- Durations: 60:30; 30:55; 59:39.
- Program 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.
- OCLC:
- 27715457
- Publisher Number:
- Mode mode 28/29
- 28/29 Mode
- mode 28/9 Mode
- 28/9 Mode
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