Beskrivning
Beskrivning: | 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. |
Fysisk beskrivning: | 2 sound discs (152 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
Speltid: | 01:00:30 00:30:55 00:59:39 |
Participant or 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 and Place of an Event Note: | Roaratorio originally broadcast Oct. 22, 1979, WDR3-Hörspielstudio; Laughtears originally recorded in Paris, Aug. 13-15, 1979. |
Action Note: | Record updated |