Guest Blog by Waywords & Meansigns Director Derek Pyle As previously announced, our third volume of Waywords and Meansigns will include a number returning contributors from past years. Whereas we formerly focused on very large pieces – each contributor to our project set an entire chapter of Finnegans Wake to music – contributors are now […]
Guest Blog by Waywords & Meansigns Director Derek Pyle A few weeks ago we announced many of the contributors to the third volume of Waywords and Meansigns, our international project setting Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to music. This project has been ongoing for a few years. We began by producing two unabridged musical editions of Finnegans Wake, […]
Guest Blog by Waywords & Meansigns Director Derek Pyle With collaborators from around the world, Waywords & Meansigns set James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to music unabridged. Twice. But Finnegans Wake being the expansive, and addictive, book that it is, we decided to organize one last hurrah! In our two previous releases, we focused on the […]
We’re delighted to announce that the beginning of our Autumn/ Winter Lecture Series is just around the corner and we’ve got a programme that’s sure to entertain and intrigue in equal measure. This season, we continue our centenary celebration of the publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the 1916 Rising with a […]
‘Illuminating the Wake’ is a way of sharing my reading of Finnegans Wake, a reading I do through notational drawing. The whole project values the reader’s unmediated thoughts about the text as they occur in the reading moment. It’s about what can be discovered when we’re not too concerned with what we are supposed to […]
