Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its Whole Wholume]
Jim Joyce, another year around the sun… To celebrate you we set Finnegans Wake to music unabridged — all audio freely distributed online, right here on this site! This process has been incredibly fun. Thank you to everyone who has […]
Dear Friends of the Wake, James Joyce’s birthday is coming up on 2 February and we have big news. The second edition of Waywords and Meansigns premieres next week! We set Finnegans Wake to music unabridged once already last spring, and now […]
Joe Murray of Radio Free Midwich reviews two chapters from the forthcoming edition of Waywords and Meansigns, by Neil Campbell and Steve Gregoropoulos. “The first thing about having a [Neil] Campbell breathing into me lugs is… it feels super normal. […]
Steve Gregoropoulos discusses his approach to Waywords and Meansigns with the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. Gregoropoulos worked with the Wake’s third chapter and “the result is a wonderful 97 minutes of music, evoking the simultaneous simplicity and complexity of […]
Grateful Web published an article about Mr. Smolin & Double Naught Spy Car’s contribution to Waywords and Meansigns. In the article composer Chris Rael responds the project: “Waywords and Meanings is one of the most meaty and brazen musical responses […]
Anna Marketti and Boston’s blog for underground music, Allston Pudding, premiered an excerpt from cassette label head Maharadja Sweets’ contribution to Waywords and Meansigns. Discussing this contribution to Waywords and Meansigns, Maharadja Sweets revealed, “working on this project was the […]
Waywords and Meansigns was profiled in Flavorwire’s Alternate Routes column by Jesse Jarnow. Jarnow clearly gets what we’re about as a mega-music project, released without record labels and in the realm of creative commons rather than copyright: “the possibilities of […]
Bobby Campbell published an article on the site Disinformation exploring the connections between Finnegans Wakeand Star Wars, complete with Campbell’s killer illustration of James Joyce the Jedi. This is a very cool topic, and we were honored to be mentioned […]
We are thrilled to see that Neil Campbell’s chapter-long contribution to Waywords and Meansigns was reviewed by Dan Barrow in the February issue of The Wire magazine: “Covering just over 20 pages of the book and a little more than […]
Derek Pyle and Sara Jewell of Waywords and Meansigns recently interview Fuat Sevimay, on translating Finnegans Wake into Turkish. Sevimay’s unabridged translation is forthcoming in 2016 from Sel Publishing Company. “[Joyce], the master builder, says something in so-called English but […]