Performer: John Cage
Genre: Electronic / Non Music / Classical
Album: Roaratorio
Released: 1985
Style: Interview, Field Recording, Spoken Word, Experimental, Contemporary
MP3 version ZIP size: 1459 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1592 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1620 mb
Rating: 4.6
Votes: 876
Other Formats: XM MIDI MOD WMA AHX DMF VOX

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	John Cage Reading Roaratorio (Beginning)	10:10
Roaratorio. An Irish Circus On Finnegans Wake
A2	A Radio Play, Part I	31:35
B1	A Radio Play, Part II	28:20
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B2	Laughtears (Conclusion) Interviewee – John CageInterviewer – Klaus Schöning	13:55

Companies, etc.

• Made By – Geyer Tonkopie

Credits

• Bagpipes [Uillean Pipes] – Seamus Ennis (tracks: A2, B1)
• Bodhrán – Mell Mercier* (tracks: A2, B1), Peadher Mercier* (tracks: A2, B1)
• Composed By – John Cage (tracks: A1 to B1)
• Cover [Umschlaggestaltung] – Design Team, München*
• Fiddle – Paddy Glackin (tracks: A2, B1)
• Flute – Matt Malloy (tracks: A2, B1)
• Other [Editor Assistant] – Peter Behrendsen
• Other [Editor] – Klaus Schöning
• Performer [Realization] – John Cage, John David Fullemann
• Vocals [Singer] – Joe Heaney (tracks: A2, B1)
• Voice – John Cage (tracks: A1 to B1)

Notes

Roaratorio. Ein irischer Circus über Finnegans Wake
Hörspiel von John Cage
Roaratorio. An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
A radio play by John Cage

Laughtears
Gespräch John Cage/Klaus Schöning
Laughtears
John Cage/Klaus Schöning: a conversation

Production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart, Katholieke Radio Omroep Hilversum
Technical cooperation: IRCAM, Paris
First transmission: 22 October 1979, WDR3-Hörspielstudio

Published together with a book of the same title (ISBN 3-7610-8386-6).
The 184-page bilingual (German/English) book collects various texts and materials, among them Cage's script for Roaratorio and a complete transcription of the conversation between Cage and Schöning, of which only an excerpt is to be heard on the cassette.
Further enclosed is a large folded poster reproducing 9 of Cage's worksheets for Roaratorio.

Second edition.
Clothbound book (ISBN 3-7610-8386-6), folded poster enclosed, cassette in a separate standard case with J-card.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
mode 28/29	John Cage	Roaratorio ‎(2xCD, Album)	Mode	mode 28/29	US	1992
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