- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (69 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Signals (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Contains master tapes of pre-recorded music to be used for the White Oak Dance Project's performances of Merce Cunningham's Signals (1970). Second week of January was commissioned by the White Oak Dance Project, and the pre-recorded tapes were meant to be mixed in real-time for the performances by "the White Oak audio engineer...using the source material provided by the Cunningham musicians". The Second week of January is based on the initial concept by John Cage for Signals, titled the First week of June, a collaboration with composers Gordon Mumma and David Tudor.
- Title, dates, location, and performers provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original DAT containers; further information obtained online from the David Tudor Pages, http://davidtudor.org/Works/january.html, accessed on September 3, 2014.
- Handwritten note on original DAT container no. 1: "Studio: Shijuku Bunka Center, Tokyo, Japan ; Client: Cunningham Dance Foundation ; Program: "Second week of January, I" A ; Music for Signals ; Composers: Left- D'Arcy P. Gray, Right- David Tudor ; Date/Time: Jan. 9 '94 ; Engineer: John D.S. Adams. Cassette sticker: Original Master ". Handwritten note on original DAT container no. 2: "Studio: Shijuku Bunka Center, Tokyo, Japan ; Client: Cunningham Dance Foundation ; Program: "Second week of January, I" B ; Music for Signals ; Composers: Left- D'Arcy P. Gray, Right- David Tudor ; Date/Time: Jan. 14 '94 ; Engineer: John D.S. Adams. Cassette sticker: Original Master ".
- Sound quality is good; there is recording silence at the beginning and end of both streaming files.
- Donor's inventory numbers: D147, and, D148.
- 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, Jan. 9: Second week of January, IA / D'Arcy Gray, left, and, David Tudor, right (2:10-32:33)
- Streaming file 2, Jan. 14: Second week of January, IB / D'Arcy Gray, left, and, David Tudor, right (1:58-32:04)
- Call Number
- *LTD-A 734
- OCLC
- 897514548
- Title
Second week of January : recordings of music for Signals. 1A, 1B / music by David Tudor and D'Arcy Gray.
- Production
January 9 and 14, 1994.
- Playing Time
003553 003316
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Performer
D'Arcy Gray, and David Tudor, musicians.
- Event
Recorded at the Shinjuku Bunka Center in, Tokyo, Japan, 1994 January 9 and 14.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival originals: (2 audio DAT cassettes (69 minutes total) : digital, .3209 ips, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, two track, stereo) in *LTD-A 734.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from 2 original DAT cassettes by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Adams, John D. S., 1966- recording engineer.
Gray, D'Arcy, composer.
Gray, D'Arcy, instrumentalist.
Tudor, David, 1926-1996, composer.
Tudor, David, 1926-1996, instrumentalist.
Based on (work): Cage, John. First week of June.
Shinjuku Bunka Sentā.
White Oak Dance Project.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Signals (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTD-A 734