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Roaratorio: An Irish Circus On Finnegans Wake
1-1	Part One (To Line 220)	26:46
1-2	Part Two (To Line 406)	16:14
1-3	Part Three (To Line 594)	14:17
1-4	Part Four (To End)	3:13
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1-5	Laughtears Voice – Klaus Schöning	16:12
2-1	Laughtears (Conclusion) Voice – Klaus Schöning	14:43
Writing For The Second Time Through Finnegans Wake
2-2	Part One (To Line 220)	27:18
2-3	Part Two (To Line 406)	16:12
2-4	Part Three (To Line 594)	13:13
2-5	Part Four (To End)	2:56

Credits

• Art Direction – Brian Brandt
• Bagpipes [Uilleann] – Seamus Ennis (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
• Bodhrán – Mell Mercier* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4), Peadher Mercier* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
• Composed By – John Cage
• Coordinator [Production] – Alice Horn
• Edited By [Editor Assistant] – Peter Behrendsen
• Edited By [Editor] – Klaus Schöning
• Engineer [Mastering] – Mikhail Liberman
• Executive-Producer – Brian Brandt
• Fiddle – Paddy Glackin (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
• Flute – Matt Malloy (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
• Liner Notes [French Translation] – Eliza Burnham, Marc Farre
• Liner Notes [German Translation] – Robert Schnorr
• Performer [Realization] – John Cage (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4), John David Fullemann (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
• Photography By – Klaus Schöning
• Vocals – Joe Heaney (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
• Voice – John Cage

Notes

Roaratorio: An Irish Circus On Finnegans Wake for speaker, Irish musicians and 62-track tape
Laughtears 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

Includes two booklets:
the first is 76-pages 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

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 7 64593 00282 6

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ISBN 3-7610-8185-5	John Cage	Roaratorio ‎(Cass, RE, C90)	Athenäum Verlag	ISBN 3-7610-8185-5	Germany	1985
WER 6303-2, 286 303-2	John Cage	Roaratorio (Ein Irischer Circus Über ›Finnegans Wake‹) ‎(CD, Album)	WERGO, WERGO	WER 6303-2, 286 303-2	Germany	1994
ISBN 3-7610-8185-5	John Cage	Roaratorio ‎(Cass, C90)	Athenäum Verlag	ISBN 3-7610-8185-5	Germany	1982