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Roaratorio ; Laughtears ; Writing for the second time through Finnegans wake
- Title
- Roaratorio ; Laughtears ; Writing for the second time through Finnegans wake [sound recording] / John Cage.
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Publication
- Kew Gardens, NY : Mode Records, p1992.
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- Description
- 2 sound discs (152 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Uniform Title
- Roaratorio
- Alternative Title
- Roaratorio
- Roaratorio.
- Laughtears.
- Writing for the second time through Finnegans wake.
- Finnegans wake.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aleatory music.
- Note
- 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.
- 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.
- Event (note)
- Roaratorio originally broadcast Oct. 22, 1979, WDR3-Hörspielstudio; Laughtears originally recorded in Paris, Aug. 13-15, 1979.
- Contents
- Laughtears, Sound recording / Cage, John -- Writing for the second time through Finnegans Wake, Sound recording / Cage, John.
- OCLC
- ocm27715457
- SCSB-14348930
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library