- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 5 streaming audio files (125 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Beach birds (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Inventions (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Trackers (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Title, date, location, and performers provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original DAT container and the performance programs.
- Handwritten note on original DAT container: "Zurich ; 1991 ; Beach Birds, Inventions - short takes, Trackers, Beach Birds**, Inventions - short ; RM, DT, MP, TK".
- Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Beach birds (1991), Inventions (1989), and Trackers (1991).
- Sound quality is mostly good; volume levels are low for both recordings of Beach birds, there is audience applause at the end of streaming files 1-4, and at the start of files 3-5.
- Donor's inventory number: D027.
- 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
- Streaming file 1: Beach birds, performance 1 [Four³ / John Cage (Takehisa Kosugi, Rob Miller, Michael Pugliese, David Tudor)]
- Streaming file 2: Inventions (short version), performance 1 [Sculptures musicales / Cage]
- Streaming file 3: Brief audience applause -- Trackers [Gravitational sounds / Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (David Tudor)]
- Streaming file 4: Brief audience applause -- Beach birds, performance 2 [Four³ / John Cage (Takehisa Kosugi, Rob Miller, Michael Pugliese, David Tudor)]
- Streaming file 5: Brief audience applause -- Inventions (short version), performance 2 [Sculptures musicales / Cage]
- Call Number
- *LTD-A 674
- OCLC
- 885206248
- Title
Beach birds, Inventions, and, Trackers : performances in Zurich, 1991-06-20/25.
- Production
June [20-25], 1991.
- Playing Time
003123 001254 003412 003150 001515
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Performer
Takehisa Kosugi, Rob Miller, Michael Pugliese, and David Tudor, musicians.
- Event
Recorded in performances in, Zurich, Switzerland, 1991 June [20-25]; [These performance dates were obtained from the Merce Cunningham Trust].
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio DAT cassette (125 minutes) : digital, .3209 ips, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, two track, stereo) in *LTD-A 674.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original DAT cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; two preservation files were created based on content: D027a - D027d.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- instrumentalist.
Miller, Rob (Robert E.), instrumentalist.
Pugliese, Michael, instrumentalist.
Tudor, David, 1926-1996, instrumentalist.
Miller, Rob (Robert E.), recording engineer.
Container of (work): Cage, John. Four³.
Container of (work): Cage, John. Sculptures musicales.
Container of (work): Pimenta, Emanuel Dimas de Melo. Gravitational sounds.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Beach birds (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music for (work) : Inventions (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music for (work) : Trackers (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTD-A 674