Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its Whole Wholume]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
Hear an excerpt from Book II, Chapter 3 of Finnegans Wake. Performed by Hayden Chisholm. Hayden is known throughout Europe for his micro-tonal saxophone technique, as well as his performative readings of Finnegans Wake. He will be the “Improviser in Residence” […]