- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (47 minutes) : 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
- Aleatory music.
- Live sound recordings.
- Modern dance music.
- Note
- Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Beach birds (1991), Inventions (1989), and, a partial recording of the music for Trackers (1991).
- Title, date, location, and performers provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original cassette, audition, and the performance programs.
- Handwritten note on original cassette: "Beach Birds (Four³) ; Recording from Zurich 1991".
- Sound quality is mostly good; there are occasional audience sounds, recording volumes are uneven, and the recording of Trackers ends abruptly.
- 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
- Beach birds "Four³" / [John Cage (Takehisa Kosugi, Rob Miller, Michael Pugliese, David Tudor)] (0:00-28:44) -- Audience applause (28:45-30:15) -- [Inventions (short version) "Sculptures musicales" / Cage] (30:16-41:56) -- Audience applause (41:57-43:50) -- [Trackers "Gravitational sounds" / Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (David Tudor)] (43:51-46:48)
- Call Number
- *LTC-A 1648
- OCLC
- 933596457
- Title
Beach birds, Inventions, and, Trackers (partial) : performance in Zurich, 1991-06.
- Production
June [20-25?], 1991.
- Playing Time
004648
- 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 performance 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 cassette (47 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1648.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by George Blood Audio on March 26, 2015.
- 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.
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
*LTC-A 1648