New Tracks Added to the Opendoor Edition
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 […]
New Tracks Added to the Opendoor Edition
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 […]
“And Dub Did Glow”, Steve Pantani’s Experiment
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 […]
Deep Cut from the Archive!
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 […]
New Recordings for Spring 2019
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 […]
Happy 80th Finnegan Wake // Futures of Waywords and Meansigns
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 […]
Finnegans Wake Turns 80 — Celebrations in Dublin!
In case you haven’t heard, Finnegans Wake turns eighty this year — published 80 years ago, May 4, 1939 — & we’re celebrating with a big weekend event in Dublin, May 3rd through 5th at the Joyce Centre. We hope […]
Seeking a research intern for Joyce and the arts
Waywords and Meansigins is seeking an intern to assist with research related to Irish author James Joyce. The intern’s work will be primarily dedicated to researching Joyce’s legacy in the arts, specifically music. The intern will help collect and present […]
Finnegans Wake for the Fall
Greetings friends of Finnegan! We are very happy to release two new tracks for the Waywords and Meansigns Opendoor Edition this fall. The first track is an alternative electric version from Barry Bender; Bender previously recorded this passage as an […]
Joyce in the Summertime – New Additions to the Opendoor Edition
Amidst this hot Irish summer, we’re pleased to release three new tracks for the Opendoor Edition of Waywords and Meansigns. Incorporating found sounds, graphic scores, recorded in small rooms and on city streets, these tracks make great and varied additions […]