A few of you may be interested in some footage of John Cage’s famous homage to Joyce’s ‘Finnegan’s Wake’:
http://www.ubu.com/film/cage_greenaway.html
…The relevant footage begins @ 42.00 mins and features (among other bewildered looking Irish music icons) a certain charismatic fluter who may prove recognizable to those contagious to the Greater Gurteen Metropolitan area.
Regards,
Harry.
Fascinating. I have just watched it, at a time when I have no time. I wanted to stop watching, but I just couldn’t pull myself away.
Thanks for this Harry.
thanks Harry! 'was lovely!
I wouldn’t have wanted to follow the conch shell 
That’s Tansey right? Sounds like him but I’m not too sure how he looks like.
Is anyone willing to explain (in not too many words) what the thing is about? 50 minutes is way too long and english is not my language…
Oh, and thanks Harry 
John Cage
[Well, you did say “in not too many words”]
Ok I’ve read (wikipedia) and listened (youtube) to some stuff about him. Hard to find shit of equal quality.
Also with Paddy Glackin and Joe Heaney. The credits at the beginning list Seamus Ennis, and it appears that it could be him at first… but a later close-up (and of course the sound of the pipes!) reveals it to be Liam O’Flynn.
I wonder what they all thought of that gig…
That was COOL (and it was Tansey, Lorenzo – and the piece was a Cage’s special take on “Finnegan’s Wake,” though it sounded more like “Finnegan’s Moment of Death” to me)! Talk about sound design. Thanks, Harry!
Very interesting, strange almost bedlam-ish - Hmm…the emperor’s clothes methinks - No I don’t like it at all - Next!!
Joyce’s ‘Finnegan’s Wake’
People, please… it’s ‘Finnegans Wake’.
From wikipedia:
Joyce removed the apostrophe in the title of his novel in order to suggest an active process in which a multiplicity of “Finnegans”, that is, all members of humanity, fall and then wake and arise.
That apostrophe took a year off the poor man’s life.