Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its Whole Wholume]
Derek Pyle, director of Waywords and Meansigns, has launched a podcast radio show called “Unassimilated Sounds”. With the slogan “taking listeners out of their usual zone, from Bach to 2pac”, Derek’s show features a unique array of music as well […]
What happened when James Joyce first heard Waywords and Meansigns? He flipped his freaking lid!
In the latest edition of Tinteán Magazine, Sara Jewell speaks with Kevin Spenst about his interest in Finnegans Wake, and the process of recording a chapter for Waywords and Meansigns. “It’s a colossal book that inspires colossal weirdness. Bless Joyce for […]
Tim Carbone of the popular American “new grass” band Railroad Earth discusses Waywords and Meansigns with Jambands.com. “the language and the diction and the way it’s written becomes percussive, and it has it’s own groove. And so you start to […]
Finnegans Wake is a circular text. Page 628 ends with the line “A way a lone a last a loved a long the” and book opens with “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, […]
Hear an excerpt of Kevin Spenst, poet and leader of the British Columbia Finnegans Wake reading group in Vancouver, reading from Book I Ch. 6 of the Wake. Listen here.
Hear Liz Longo and her daughter Izzy singing a passage of Finnegans Wake, from Book II, Chapter 2. Liz is an artist and singer in NYC. She is author of A Bird and Its Albatross, and is a part of […]
Gareth Flowers performing part of Book Three, Chapter 1 of Finnegans Wake. Gareth is an internationally renowned trumpet player, known for his classical as well as experimental music. He served as guest principal trumpet in the San Francisco Symphony, the […]
Hear the beginning of Book 2, Chapter 1 referred to by Joyce as “The Children’s Hour” — an allusion to the BBC radio and television programmes of the same name. Joyce’s work is full of allusions to music and literature, […]
Preview from members of the Finnegans Wake Reading Group of Austin, Texas! This is Peter Quadrino, known as the author of the blogs “Finnegans, Wake!” and “A Building Roam.”Produced by Jake Reading & Peter Quadrino. Recorded and mixed by Jake […]