James Joyce's musical biography in 100 bars encoded in his own text.

From James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" [537.14-36 "the legal eric for infelicitous conduict (here incloths placefined my pocketanchoredcheck) and, as a matter of fact, I undertake to discontinue entyrely all practices and I deny wholeswiping in toto at my own request in all stoytness to have confermentated and confoederated and agreed in times prebellic, when here were waders for the trainsfolk, as it is now nuggently laid to me, with a friend from mine, Mr Billups, pulleter, my quarterbrother, who sometimes he is doing my locum for me on a grubstake and whom I have cleped constoutuent, for so it was felt by me, at goodbuy cootcoops byusucapiture a mouthless niggeress, Blanchette Brewster from Cherna Djamja, Blaw-lawnd-via-Brigstow, or to illsell my fourth part in her, which although allowed of in Deuterogamy as in several places of Scripture (copyright) and excluded books (they should quite rightly verbanned be), would seem eggseggs excessively haroween to my feelimbs for two punt scotch, one pollard and a crockard or three pipples on the bitch. Thou, Frick's Flame, Uden Sulfer, who strikest only on the marryd bokks, enquick me if so be I did cophetuise milady's maid! In spect of her beavers she is a womanly and sacret. Such wear a frillick for my comic strip, Mons Meg's Monthly, comes out aich Fanagan's Weck, to bray at by clownsillies in Donkeybrook Fair. It would lackin mackin Hodder's and Cocker's erithmatic."]
only the letters of the set {ABCDEFGH} were left, 421 of them.

Their sequence ["heegaecffeccdcheechacefedceachedchecadaaaeffacdeaedceeeaacceaddehegaeeaehaecfeeaedadcfedeaedadageedeebecheheeeeadefheafaggeadehafedfeBeeaebheheehedgcfeagbaeadhhaeceedcefafebeagdbccbcaeaheggeeBacheeBeefCheaDaaBaadaBgefhahehchahghaedfDeegaaeeaacefcecghadecdedbhehdeghebaedbedeeeggeggeceehaeefeebfccheadadaccadheeehebchhFcFaedefeheheadbecefbeddcheeadadecfhebeaeheaaadacecheaafcfcceghceachFaagaecbaabceDebFadacacHddeadCceehac"] was translated into 421 respectively pitched musical notes.
No two (different) notes start at the same time. Duration attributed arbitrarily.

JOYCE'S MUSICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY INCLUDES THE SOUNDALIKES OF:

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN (hymnal) to represent the British Empire
1882-1904 Ireland (Dublin) LONDONDERRY AIR // DANNY BOY (trad.)
[1904-1905]	Austria-Hungary (Pula) [now: Croatia] KAISERLIED (Joseph Haydn)
1905-1915 Austria-Hungary (Trieste) [now: Italy]	KAISERLIED (Joseph Haydn)
[1906-1907]	Italy (Rome) IL CANTO DEGLI ITALIANI (Michele Novaro)
1915-1920 Switzerland  1 (Zurich) WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE (Gioacchino Rossini)
[1931] England (London) MAIRI'S WEDDING (trad.)
1920-1940 France (Paris) LA MARSEILLAISE (Rouget De Lisle)
[1940-1941]	Switzerland 2 (Zurich) RUFST DU, MEIN VATERLAND ("God Save The Queen")

Note: I do not know what, if any, music James and Nora Joyce listened to about their marriage in London of 1931. I chose to be looking for "Mairi's Wedding" because why not.

FW 537.14-36 [Joyce Was Here] God Save Mairi's Wedding

Some of my SC files were collected, arranged and remade by PAIDE. The remix was first uploaded here: http://www.radio-alternator.com/index.php/2014/01/28/2014-01-28-slow-audycja-audycja-w-wolnym-wymiarze-presents-gi-mcbart-miditape/
Enjoyce!
Web coverage (English): http://culture.pl/en/article/secret-code-in-joyces-finnegans-wake-cracked
(Polish): http://culture.pl/pl/artykul/finnegans-wake-remix-czyli-jak-polak-zlamal-kod-joycea

PAIDE PRESENTS JOYCE --- GI McBart MIDItape Finnegans Wake Remixed

The idea was to remix selected tunes from Krzysztof Bartnicki's soundcloud page. But they're not usual tracks as you may think:
"The sounds here are founded on sequences of 8 letters of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'. As A's, B's C'd, D's, E's, F's, G's and H's of the world's weirdest book get to represent sounds, Joyce appears to have composed melodies we think others did. After he'd died."

'GI McBart MIDItape' is a recorded live mix version as a part of the showcase with Gerard Lebik and Robert Piotrowicz in Wroclaw, Poland on 14th February 2k14. 

note:
first track is: Oriol Rosell - Seidl 3(from [Crónica058-2011] Oriol Rosell - Ulrich Seidl EP)
last track is:  Paide - Szpaki / Starlings

more info:
https://soundcloud.com/gimcbart
http://culture.pl/en/article/secret-code-in-joyces-finnegans-wake-cracked

GI McBart MIDItape live mix

an old track of mine : badalamenti(Twin Peaks) + kosheen(Hide You) + oh brother where art you soundtrack .

around 2006 

It's ok Bob - twin peaks, kosheen, o brother where art thou?

I wish I was in Dixie's Land - acoustic guitar solo

Words by Rokusuke Ei, music by Hachidai Nakamura.

All sounds by Jimi Inc.

Ue o Muite Arukou

‘Fieldworks’ is a series of recordings made during the summer and autumn of 2010 in Wroclaw. The idea was to register single events whose musical aspects reveal the uniqueness of its space-time anchorage.

All photos were taken by Pawel Kaminski during the recoding process.

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The melodies here are found in James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". When sequences of its A's, B's C's, D's, E's, F's, G's and H's represent sounds, Joyce appears to have composed melodies we think others did.

FW 537.14-36 [Joyce Was Here] God Save Mairi's Wedding

GI McBart

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