Finnegans Wake

3 February 2012 • sound • no comments

This album is quite old, I think I did it circa 2001 or maybe before, I don’t know. I don’t even know what I think about it right now, so I’m just gonna copy something that I write at that time:

“Sometime ago I decided to read a book by James Joyce entitled Finnegans Wake, a work that is quite strange and doesn’t make any sense. At the same time I was experimenting with several computer softwares that manipulate sound. The results of that experiments were quite meaningless, I was just testing different things with different kinds of sounds. Some of the themes had rhythm or structures more or less defined, another ones were just noise. Then I thought about use sentences of that book to entitle the songs, because both things were quite nonsense.”

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It was published by Harzard Records, so it’s in the public domain. You can download it in different formats from Archive.

And, just by chance, today is 130th anniversary of James Joyce‘s birth… His work is now also in the public domain.