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New Tracks Added to the Opendoor Edition

2022-01-182022-01-18 Chimpden123Uncategorized

With wishes for a new year of happiness and health and fulfilment, we welcome you back in 2022. We hope you and your loved ones are safe. In addition, we wish to announce the release of two new tracks for […]

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New Tracks Added to the Opendoor Edition

2020-04-042020-04-06 Chimpden123News

We hope you are all safe and healthy, and surviving these crazy times. In addition, we wish to announce the release of three new tracks for the Opendoor Edition of Waywords and Meansigns. Julia Barnes, Julia Henneman, Yung-Tuan Ku and […]

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“And Dub Did Glow”, Steve Pantani’s Experiment

2020-03-202020-03-21 Chimpden123News

This essay was written by Steve Pantani, a long-time devotee of Finnegans Wake. Finnegans Wake is a maximally unconventional text. So to accompany it with music in a conventional, conservative classical idiom seems an unpromising choice. But I had a […]

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Deep Cut from the Archive!

2020-03-092020-03-10 Chimpden123Releases

A newly resurfaced recording from The Etym and the Ondt has been added to the Opendoor Edition. This a cappella reading — an improvised first-take — was recorded in 2015. It features Henry Anderson, Parker McQueeney, Eli Salus-Kleiner, and Waywords […]

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New Recordings for Spring 2019

2019-05-242019-05-24 Chimpden123Releases

Dear friends of the Wake, We are very happy to release two new tracks for the Waywords and Meansigns Opendoor Edition this spring. The first track is from Dave Stitch, an electronic musician based in the UK. Stitch recorded page […]

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Happy 80th Finnegan Wake // Futures of Waywords and Meansigns

2019-05-102019-05-10 Chimpden123News

Dear friends, On May 4th, Finnegans Wake turned 80. For the past six weeks, we’ve been in Ireland celebrating the book’s birthday, with Trinity College’s FW @ 80 conference and now at the James Joyce Centre’s Finnegans Wake-End. These events […]

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Steve Gregoropoulos and the Acoustic Disturbance

2016-01-232016-10-22 Chimpden123Releases, Reviews and Coverage

Steve Gregoropoulos discusses his approach to Waywords and Meansigns with the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. Gregoropoulos worked with the Wake’s third chapter and “the result is a wonderful 97 minutes of music, evoking the simultaneous simplicity and complexity of […]

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