John Cage. Hudebně-rozhlasová kompozice. Hrají Paddy Clackin (housle), Peadar Mercier (bodrhan), Mel Mercier (bodrhan), Matt Malloy (flétna), Seamus Ennis (Uillean-pipes).
Účinkují John Cage, Joe Heaney.
Nastudoval Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Suddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart, Katholieke Radio Omroep Hilversum v roce 1979. Premiéra 22. 10. 1979 (WDR3-Hörspielstudio). K poslechu na YouTube.
Vydal Mode v roce 1992 v rámci kompletu The Complete John Cage Edition – Volume 6 (2 CD).
Pozn.: Hörspiel (radio play) for electronic tapes, speaker and Irish folk musicians (1979).
Lit.: Berenguer, José Manuel – Gómez, Carlos: JOHN CAGE. Notes towards a re-reading of the “Roaratorio” Transcript. In web Radio Macba, 7. 3. 2012 (článek + PDF ke stažení). – Cit.: John Cage wrote pieces in which radio played a leading role. Not so much for radio as such, but rather for the creative opportunities that the equipment and machines at radio stations offered in terms of generating and manipulating sound. When this machinery was superseded by the new equipment at major sound production and research studios, Cage had no qualms about turning to them to carry out his radio commissions.
Lit.: Fetterman, William. 1996. John Cage’s Theatre Pieces: Notations and Performances. Routledge. ISBN 3-7186-5643-4 (pp. 216-221).
Lit.: Kloutvorová, Michaela: John Cage a experimentální rozhlasová hra. [online]. 2021-12-23T06:57:56Z [cit. 2022-01-08]. (diplomová práce).
Lit.: anonym: Roaratorio. In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, b. d. (článek). – Cit.: Roaratorio, an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake is a musical composition by American avant-garde composer John Cage. It was composed in 1979 for Klaus Schöning of West German Radio, and premiered as one of the entries in Schöning’s radio series.
The piece is a realization of another Cage score, ____,____ ____ circus on ____, which consists of an instruction on how to translate any book into a performance. The book used for Roaratorio is Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, a long-time favorite of Cage’s. Texts from it appear also in Cage’s songs The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942) and Nowth upon Nacht (1984). The text of Roaratorio was published separately as Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake.