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

LIBRA Mode 28/9 CD
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Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Cage, John.
Contributor:
Cage, John, narrator.
Heaney, Joe, 1919-1984, performer.
Ennis, Seamus, performer.
Glackin, Paddy, performer.
Malloy, Matt, performer.
Mercier, Peadher, performer.
Mercier, Mel, performer.
Schöning, Klaus, narrator.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
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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