Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its Whole Wholume]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Jim Joyce, another year around the sun… To celebrate you we set Finnegans Wake to music unabridged — all audio freely distributed online, right here on this site! This process has been incredibly fun. Thank you to everyone who has […]
Dear Friends of the Wake, James Joyce’s birthday is coming up on 2 February and we have big news. The second edition of Waywords and Meansigns premieres next week! We set Finnegans Wake to music unabridged once already last spring, and now […]
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 […]
Anna Marketti and Boston’s blog for underground music, Allston Pudding, premiered an excerpt from cassette label head Maharadja Sweets’ contribution to Waywords and Meansigns. Discussing this contribution to Waywords and Meansigns, Maharadja Sweets revealed, “working on this project was the […]
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 […]