Roaratorio

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Album Info

Release Date: 2002

Label: Mode

Roaratorio: An Irish Circus On Finnegans Wake (1979) for speaker, Irish musicians and 62-track tape
Laughtears (1979) conversation on Roaratorio
Writing For The Second Time Through Finnegans Wake (1976-79)

Technical cooperation: IRCAM, Paris
Production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Suddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart, Katholieke Radio Omroep Hilversum
First transmission: 22 October 1979, WDR3-Hörspielstudio

Released in a 'fat' double jewel case including two booklets:
the first is 76-page and includes Cage on Roaratorio: On Having Received the Carl Sczuka Prize for Roatatorio, Laughtears: Conversations on Roaratorio by John Cage and Klaus Schöning, The Score, The Sounds, Categories and Numbers of all sounds used in Roaratorio, The Musicians: Title and Duration of Their Musical Pieces, Credits and Mode Discography.
the second is 44-page and includes Writing For The Second Time Through Finnegans Wake — Radio Play Text For Roaratorio. An Irish Circus On Finnegans Wake

℗ © 1992, 2002 mode records. Made & Printed in USA

Originally published by Mode Records in 1992.
24-bit remastering from the WDR master tapes, April-May 2002.