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Toneburst, Telephones and Birds, Weatherings, and Equal Distribution : performances at the Zellerbach Auditorium.

Title
Toneburst, Telephones and Birds, Weatherings, and Equal Distribution : performances at the Zellerbach Auditorium. 1978.
Publication
1978.

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Cage, John
  • Kalve, Martin
  • Tudor, David, 1926-1996
  • Cage, John
  • Tudor, David, 1926-1996.
  • Gibson, Jon
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  • Cal Performances (Organization)
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor
Found In
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Description
3 streaming audio files (114 minutes total) : digital, mono
Uniform Title
  • Exchange (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
  • Fractions (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
  • Sounddance (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
  • Travelogue (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Alternative Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Live sound recordings.
Note
  • Title and date provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original reel hub, container and audition.
  • Handwritten note on original reel hub [torn, partially legible]: "[To]nebur[st] ; [Trav]elog ; [Zell]erbach 10/78 ; Fraction ; [Exc]hange". Handwritten note on original case spine: "Toneburst, Fractions, Exchange". Handwritten note taped to original container: "Basic 4 ; msc 2/24/81".
  • Contains performances of music for Merce Cunningham's Sounddance (1974), Travelogue (1977), Exchange (1978), and Fractions (1978).
  • Sound quality is overall fair. Toneburst has recording distortion, especially in the beginning and the recording quality improves as it continues. Telephones and birds is recorded at an inconsistent volume level, often low with the voices inaudible at times. Weatherings has microphone adjustment sounds in the beginning of the recording and the recording quality improves as it continues. Equal distribution is mostly good with a slight tape "hiss" throughout.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Source (note)
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Contents
  • Part 1, October 20, 1978: Toneburst (David Tudor) (0:00-18:57) -- Telephones and birds (John Cage, Martin Kalve, David Tudor) (19:41-47:13)
  • Part 2, October 21, 1978, evening: Weatherings (David Tudor) (33:42)
  • Part 3, October 21, 1978, matinee: Equal distribution, [arrangement for piano] (Martin Kalve) (32:57)
Call Number
*LT-7-A 2403
OCLC
881293164
Title
Toneburst, Telephones and Birds, Weatherings, and Equal Distribution : performances at the Zellerbach Auditorium. 1978.
Production
1978.
Playing Time
004713 003342 003257
Type of Content
performed music
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Performer
John Cage, Martin Kalve, and David Tudor, musicans.
Event
Recorded in performances at the Zellerbach Auditorium in, Berkeley, California 1978 October 20 and 21.
Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (143 minutes) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, quarter track, mono ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2403.
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Local Note
Transferred from original open tape reel by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on February 12, 2014. To create the streaming files, the sound engineers edited out the recording silences in the preservation files, thus the discrepancies in length between the preservation files and the streaming files.
Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
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Added Author
Cage, John, instrumentalist.
Kalve, Martin, instrumentalist.
Tudor, David, 1926-1996, instrumentalist.
Container of (work): Cage, John. Telephones and birds.
Container of (work): Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Toneburst.
Container of (work): Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Weatherings.
Container of (work): Gibson, Jon. Equal distribution, no. 1.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Cal Performances (Organization)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Added Title
Music for (work) : Exchange (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music for (work) : Fractions (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music for (work) : Sounddance (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music for (work) : Travelogue (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2403
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