Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its Whole Wholume]
With our May 4th release quickly approaching, we thrilled to share a few upcoming tracks. It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine premiered a playlist with supergroup Old Fiends (Jason Merritt, Kenneth Griffin, Jason Sebastian Russo, and Paul Dillon), Little Sparta with Sally Timms […]
We’re really excited about our upcoming May 4th release, which features over 100 contributors from 15 different countries setting Finnegans Wake to music. You can see the press release here. We’re also excited to report that Mike Watt and Adam […]
We’re pleased to announce another 37 contributors for our 2017 release of Waywords and Meansigns, setting James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to music. Our 2017 audio will be released on 4 May, the publication anniversary of Finnegans Wake. With over a […]
The latest issue of the James Joyce Quarterly (Volume 52, Number 1) includes a review of Waywords and Meansigns, by Aodhán Kelly and Tom De Keyser from the University of Antwerp. Focusing on the first edition of Waywords and Meansigns, […]
On 23 January, Sonic Imperfections host Nigel Bryant interviewed Waywords and Meansigns project director Derek Pyle for London’s experimental radio station Resonance FM. After playing excerpts of Steve Gregoropoulos and Neil Campbell‘s 2016 recordings of Waywords and Meansigns, Nigel and […]
Waywords and Meansigns is setting James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to music again. Contributors are taking short passages of the Wake — a paragraph, a page, a few pages — to set to music. The result will be a mosaic of […]
Waywords and Meansigns was mentioned in an article and podcast from dwutygodnik, an online culture magazine in Poland. The podcast features a recorded interview with our friend Jakub Wróblewski, known for First We Feel, Then We Fall, a wonderful multimedia adaptation of Finnegans Wake. […]
Waywords and Meansigns director Derek Pyle was interviewed by Marie Sartain for the James Joyce Quarterly’s “Clever, Very” blog series. Derek Pyle spoke about his own background, the evolution of the project, and the call for contributors for our 2017 […]
We launched a new website! In addition to generally looking less like 2003 and more like 2013, the site should be more easily navigable. The artists page is simplified, making it easier to locate specific recordings and also easier to discover new music. […]
In June various Waywords and Meanings contributors converged in Dublin and London to celebrate the wild and wonderful world of Finnegans Wake. Some of the highlights included project director Derek Pyle’s talk at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin; an […]