Roaratorio

Album by John Cage

Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake is John Cage’s electroacoustic album combining his mesostic reading from James Joyce’s novel with a multitrack collage of environmental recordings from places cited in the text and traditional Irish music, assembled using chance operations. It presents a text-sound work rooted in experimental, aleatoric and musique concrète practices.
ClassicalElectronicSpoken WordExperimental

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake: Part One (to Line 220)
    26:46
  2. 2.
    Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake: Part Two (to Line 406)
    16:14
  3. 3.
    Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake: Part Three (to Line 594)
    14:17
  4. 4.
    Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake: Part Four (to End)
    3:13
  5. 5.
    Laughtears
    16:12

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Laughtears (conclusion)
    14:43
  2. 3.
    Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake: Part One (to Line 22)
    27:18
  3. 4.
    Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake: Part Two (to Line 406)
    16:12
  4. 5.
    Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake: Part Three (to Line 594)
    13:13
  5. 6.
    Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake: Part Four (to End)
    2:56

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