Contributors to Waywords and Meansigns are a self-described collection of "musicians, artists, poets, scholars, weirdos, passionate Wake-heads, those ignorant of the Wake, and anyone generally adventurous.
"[9] Artists participating in the Opendoor Edition include Krzysztof Bartnicki, Martyn Bates, John Wolf Brennan, Neil Campbell, Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth and Lou Rogai of Lewis & Clarke, Joe Cassidy of Butterfly Child, Hayden Chisholm, S.A. Griffin; Kinski, Ulrich Krieger, Jason Sebastian Russo, David Moss, Monica Queen, Schneider TM, Sally Timms, Mike Watt, and many more.
048–074) 048-050.35 - Wiel Conen & Charlotte Gilissen 052.18-053.35 - S.A. Griffin 053.36-055.02 - Joe Cassidy 055.03-056.19 - Neal Kosaly-Meyer 061.15-061.16 - Seán Mac Erlaine - "Nooningless Knockturne" 066.28-067.06 - Graziano Galati 067.07-067.27 - Schneider TM - "His Phizz Fell" 071.10-072.16 - Jon Wahl - "Abusive Names" Chapter 4 (pp.
How Are Yor Maggies" 148.33-152.15 - Kevin Spenst and Hitori Tori - "Question 11" 152.16-159.18 - Mr. Smolin - "The Mooks & The Gripes" 159.19-163.07 - William Sutton 163.08-165.07 - Conspirators of Pleasure (Simon Underwood and Poulomi Desai) Chapter 7 (pp.
216–259) 223.12-224.07 - Sauerbraten Beef Ring - "Nought A Wired From The Wordless Either" 224.08-226.20 - Lucy Hollier - "The Pearlagraph" 226.21-228.02 - David Hurn and Abigail Hopkins 228.03-229.01 - Joel Wranning 229.01-229.29 - Owen Tromans 229.29-230.25 - Brendan Kinsella and Brian Tyree
309–382) 310.22-311.20 - Doug Eisenstark 310.22-311.20 - Matt Battle 311.21-312.16 - Insides 312.17-313.13 - Barry Bender - "To Old Sporty" 313.14-314.14 - M. David Hornbuckle - "Whereofter" 314.15-315.08 - Alek Erickson 316.11-319.02 - Steve Fly 319.03-319.36 - Cathal O' Leary 322.01-323.24 - Kinski 323.25-324.17 - Tenement and Temple (Monica Queen and Johnny Smillie) 324.18-326.20 - Renata Meints 326.21-326.36 - Tom Segear 329.14-330.11 - Steve Pantani - "And Dub Did Glow" 330.20-332.09 - John Wolf Brennan 332.10-333.05 - David Moss & Boris Hegenbart - "stepping the tolks" 333.06-334.05 - meunders 372.23-373.12 - Haunted Robot, Ltd. and Dameon Merkl - "Last ye, lundsmin" 380.07-382.30 - The Science Of Deduction Chapter 12 (pp.
474–554) 494.27-497.03 - Layne Farmen of "Faraday" 499.04-499.36 - Human Flourishing 500.01-501.06 - Adam Matlock 504.20-505.31 - Belorusia 506.34-509.36 - Rod Stasick - "Peace Antiques" 510.01-510.36 - Junklight 511.01-511.36 - Hardworking Families 512.01-512.20 - PhÆDRx - "To The Pink, Man!"
593–628) 593 - Adrian DiMatteo 594.01-595.29 - Rich Chapman 595.30-596.33 - watercodes 596.34-597.23 - Epiphany Now 597.24-598.27 - Hayden Chisholm 598.17-600.04 - Mariana Lanari and Sjoerd Leijten - "Supernoctural" 598.28-599.24 - Les orages de janvier - "Sable Rampant" 601.21-602.08 - Cathal O' Leary 602.09-603.33 - Mark Sheeky - "Finnegan's Judgement" 603.34-604.22 - Kaia Jackson 604.22-606.12 - Gerry Smyth 606.13-607.16 - Doug Eisenstark 607.17-607.36 - John Shakespear - "High Tigh Tigh" 608.01-608.36 - Asha Passalacqua 609.01-609.36 - Ken Davidson 610-611.02 - The Most Ever Company - "Muta & Juva" 613.01-615.11 - Peter Quadrino - "Vicocyclometer" 615.12-619.16 - Kamil Szuszkiewicz featuring Pictorial Candi - "Pollabella" 627.34-003.18 - Steve Gregoropoulos - "Recirculation" The Opendoor Edition's music received generally positive reviews, including a 7.8 rating from Paste.
"[17] Paste's Jay Horton wrote of the third edition: "It's soon enough made clear that there are as many varieties of musical renderings as there are interpretations of its prose, which sparks the likely-unavoidable problem concerning the songs and the book they're taken from and the ideas it (barely) contains – there's just too damn many.