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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Music for Wilson fans

Robert Anton Wilson fans are likely to also be fans of James Joyce, or at least realize that RAW was deeply influenced by Joyce's writings.

So I thought I would share a discovery I made recently -- a composition by modern American composer Robert Erickson that sets a text from Finnegan's Wake to music. The track is called "End of the Mime" and it can be downloaded here. (The whole album is worth downloading. I particularly like the first track, "Night Music.")

(Via the Avant Garde Project.)

1 comment:

Oz Fritz said...

John Cage also composed a piece based on Finnegans Wake.

http://www.themodernword.com/Joyce/music/cage_roaratorio.html