Album: Music in Circles
Date: March 18, 2020
Artists:
- James Dever
Cover Artists:
- James Dever
Cover Art Dimensions: 2853x2345
Groups:
- James Dever
- Beyond
Color: '#c9c7be'
Additional Files:
- Title: Standalone page archive
  Files: [new_irish_stew.zip]
  Description: >-
    Google-cached copy of the track page for [[track:new-irish-stew-music-in-circles]], including the Bandcamp metadata (<code>TralbumData</code>) that this album entry is based on.
Commentary:
    <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp about blurb)

    New Irish Stew is a graphic score written in early 2016. It is written for an indeterminate amount of musicians (minimum of 3) and narrators.

    The score is written in a literal circle with no beginning or ending given. It is up to the performers to decide where to start, when to end, what tempo, and if they wish, when to improvise.

    Surrounding the music is a slew of cherry picked quotes from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. The narrators can either be cued by the outer, melodic line, vice versa, or free to choose when to read each quote. The other voices heard besides the two narrators are audience members who were given specific quotes and told to say them whenever they wanted.

    <i>James Dever:</i> (Bandcamp credits blurb)

    The premiere was performed at the University of Northern Colorado by guitarist Conner Shaw, marimbist Breana Meyers, bassist Ben Hornacek, and narration by Joe Darpino and Cathy Verbyla.
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Track: New Irish Stew
Originally Released As: New Irish Stew
Directory: new-irish-stew-music-in-circles
Duration: 13:39