So yesterday was Bloomsday. Like Robyn I struggle with reading Joyce. (Actually I just struggle with reading…).
I am just a bit too young to have dressed up as a woman to go to the segregated screening of Ulysses. Have read some but never finished Ulysses. But for an insight into Joyce I like Roaratorio.
Roaratorio, an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake, a John Cage classic is available online.
The piece is a realization of another Cage score, ____,____ ____ circus on ____, which consists of an instruction on how to translate any book into a performance. The book used for Roaratorio is Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, a long-time favorite of Cage’s.
Here I am with nothing to say. If one of you wants to go somewhere, go ahead and leave at any time. What we need is silence, but what silence needs is that I go on talking.
Take an hour of listening time. Roaratorio, an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake, a John Cage classic.