- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 3 streaming audio files (82 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Tread (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Title provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on the original containers. All other recording information including the date, performer and instrumentation, provided by the cataloger based on audition and liner notes for The art of David Tudor, 1963-1992, c. 2013, New World Records.
- Contains music for Merce Cunningham's Tread (1970); possibly related to the recording of For 1, 2, or 3 people found on The art of David Tudor disc set.
- The archival original no. 2 was originally included with the moving image materials for Tread, 1970; streaming file at: http://link.nypl.org/M3xmQEsrSZemf0q2EXEttw_.
- Sound quality is mostly good; there is recording hiss overall, and all of the streaming files end abruptly.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Event (note)
- Likely recorded in unidentified rehearsals and/or performances with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in the early 1970's.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 2387
- OCLC
- 890142223
- Author
Wolff, Christian, 1934- composer.
- Title
Tread. 1AB and 2AB / music by Christian Wolff.
- Production
[probably early 1970's?]
- Playing Time
002819 002824 002434
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Performer
David Tudor, baroque organ, live electronics.
- Event
Likely recorded in unidentified rehearsals and/or performances with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in the early 1970's.
- Original Version
Archival original, no. 1: (1 audiotape reel (57 minutes) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, quarter track, stereo ; 5 in. rewound onto an archival 7 in. reel) in *LT-7-A 2387.
Archival original, no. 2: (1 audiotape reel (25 minutes) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 5 in. rewound onto an archival 7 in. reel) in *LT-7-A 2387.
- 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 no. 1 by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on July 3, 2014; side one recorded in Dolby B and decoded with Teac AN-180, s/n 6461; side two is not Dolby encoded.
Transferred from original open tape reel no. 2 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 23, 2015.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Tudor, David, 1926-1996, instrumentalist.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Tread (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2387