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…from swerve of shore to bend of bay…
I credit @Paulieworld for the title of this track. He suggested that I look in Finnegan’s Wake for track titles. I got as far as the first word.🙂
It’s all Outgrowth, of course.
Has anyone ever actually read Finnegan’s Wake?
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I saw this wasn't getting any love so I thought I'd give it a listen. Nice production. Very relaxing track. What synths did you use on this if I may ask?
Nice and the title appears to be quite apt. (Haven't attempted Finnegan's Wake, I'm more of a Beckett and Flann O'Brien fan.)
Thanks @wagtunes for the kind words and the bump.🙂
All the sounds emanate from 2 instances of Outgrowth loaded with a few custom samples that I added.
I did listen to it the other day but forgot to express my liking in type, think I'm running out of words too.😊
I've started it on multiple occasions, read skipping bits of it, sampled phrases and pargraphs, and read some of Campbell's "Skeleton Key." But actually read? No.
Ulysses, yes.
That is a nice arrangement of sounds, I could listen to this in bed and get carried away with all kind of thoughts, it is soothing and interesting.
Mike
Love the title! I'm at work and these cheap PC speakers just don't have the range. I'll listen tonight on my "good" headphones.
This is so beautiful.
I never read "Finnegan's Wake" before. Is it a good book?
I’ll never know.
I, like many I suspect, have tried to read it several times and never gotten past page 10.
Here’s a representative sentence:
blightblack workingstacks at twelvepins a dozen and the noobi-
busses sleighding along Safetyfirst Street and the derryjellybies
snooping around Tell-No-Tailors' Corner and the fumes and the
hopes and the strupithump of his ville's indigenous romekeepers,
homesweepers, domecreepers, thurum and thurum in fancymud
murumd and all the uproor from all the aufroofs, a roof for may
and a reef for hugh butt under his bridge suits tony) wan warn-
ing Phill filt tippling full. His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did
shake.
A couple of facts about FW-
It took Joyce 17 years to write.
A book club in California recently finished reading the book.
It took 28 years.
Okay, I’m wearing my “good” headphones. Really nice. The opening note sounds like a single acoustic bass string being plucked in a deep, dark tunnel, then it expands with Jaco-like harmonics to fill the space. I listened to the intro a few times. The sounds at :52 are very evocative, and appear a few times throughout the piece. Nice bass tones with some marimbas floating on top. Sort of jazzy. Cool echo effects that remind me of Other Desert Cities, my favorite echo effect. The whole thing could be an alternate, uplifting ending to Eraserhead, if that makes sense. Outgrowth sounds like a fun app and ideal for this type of music. You got some great results. I didn’t watch the video. The music stands on its own. Really nicely done.
"Good" is not usually the kind of assessment applied to the Wake. Challenging. Brilliant. Unique. Obscure. Surreal. Even funny, in the sense that a professor of literature might use. Good, though... well.
I'd start with earlier Joyce, to get a sense of where he's coming from.
@rottencat and @garden Oh it's that difficult-to-read book. I've heard about "Finnegan's Wake" but forgot the title of it. 😳😂 I think I'll be giving that one a miss then to be fair.
Finnegan’s Wake is a challenge for sure, but it’s a good challenge. I’d suggest reading all of Joyce’s other works first before making that decision, and it’s good to have a working knowledge of classical works and an overview of the history of Ireland.
Wordplay is at the core of Finnegan’s Wake, and it’s not too much of a leap to see that music can be constructed that way too. This would probably make a good companion piece for reading Finnegan’s Wake.
Enjoyed this one of yours, and the video too… good to know that people like you are out there doing stuff like this that makes people like me think, “What would it be like if I did something like that..?”
Oh man. Soooo many band names in there.
Dibs on "Strupithump".
LOL! 😂
On second thought, that might just finally be the name of the musical genre my weird music seems to always turn out to be.
I bet @Svetlovska could pick a name out of that text to title the genre she's producing. 😂
I want Domecreepers!🙂
My stage name would definitely be Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker.
@jwmmakerofmusic said:
‘Blightblack’ works for me… surprisingly well, actually.
I can’t keep up @rottencat … too much good music to listen to… most of it being produced by you 😊
I went through a phase in my 20’s of reading all of the Flann O’Brien books @pbelgium . I remember enjoying them but not much else 🤔
No to Finnegan’s Wake as well but the text you quoted reminds me a bit of Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks… e.g.
“Bascule thi rascule thas me & am moar than redy; am feerce. A litl bird tole me.”
Many thanks to you!
I’m reminded of a book I read many years ago, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. In a similar, phonetic style of writing.
A sample:
Ready to cry ready to dy ready for any thing is how I come to it now. In fear and tremmering only not running a way. In emtyness and ready to be fult. Not to lern no body nothing I cant even lern my oan self all I can do is try not to get in front of whats coming. Jus try to keap out of the way of it.
A great book, largely forgotten now, I fear.
Regarding Flann O’Brien, is At-Swim-Two-Birds the best place to start or would you recommend another?
I remember reading The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz by Hoban but don’t think I read any of his others.
ASTB is probably FO’B’s most famous book although like I say I remember little about it.
The Third Policeman seems to stick in my mind as being enjoyable.
@pbelgium may be better informed than me !
All are good, my favs are the Third Policeman or the Dalkey Archive (Joyce is one of the characters in this). There are also collections of his newspaper columns under the pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen - Hair of the Dogma and Best of Myles.
Thanks @pbelgium! I’ll look into it.🙂