Research Catalog

Mesa : music for Place

Title
  1. Mesa : music for Place / music by Gordon Mumma.
Published by
  1. November 9, 1966.
Author
  1. Mumma, Gordon, 1935-

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Tudor, David, 1926-1996
  2. Cunningham, Merce
  3. Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  4. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor
Found in
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Description
  1. 1 streaming audio file (25 minutes) : digital, stereo
Alternative title
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Subject
  1. Bandoneon and electronic music
  2. Modern dance music
Genre/Form
  1. Live sound recordings.
Call number
  1. *LT-7-A 2407
Note
  1. Title, dates, locations and performers provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on the original container and a note card insert.
  2. Handwritten note on original container: "Mesa <<Place>> ; special 60/50 Hz 7.5 ips ; QTRTRK St".
  3. Accompanying note card insert, handwritten: "Gordon Mumma: Mesa (1966) (PLACE) ; Special Tape ; Quarter track Stereo, 7.5 ips (19 cm/sec) ; For playback on 60 Hz machines at 50 Hz cyclage ; David Tudor, bandoneon / Gordon Mumma, cybersonics ; includes: Place extension closing from the Theatre de Champs Elysees performance of 9 November 1966. ; Dub at Boulder, Colo. on UHER 4400 from Viking 86, 8 July 1968."
  4. Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Place (1966).
  5. Sound quality is mostly good; recording ends abruptly.
Access (note)
  1. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Source (note)
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Local note
  1. 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 August 4, 2014.
  2. The archival original recording was produced at a non standard speed, 16.66% faster than 7.5 ips, for the purpose of being played in locations where the playback equipment uses a 50 Hz standard in order to compensate for pitch.
Author
  1. Mumma, Gordon, 1935- composer.
Title
  1. Mesa : music for Place / music by Gordon Mumma.
Production
  1. November 9, 1966.
Playing time
  1. 002444
Type of content
  1. performed music
Type of medium
  1. audio
Type of carrier
  1. audiotape reel
  2. online resource
Digital file characteristics
  1. audio file
Performer
  1. David Tudor, bandoneon, and Gordon Mumma, cybersonics.
Event
  1. Recorded in performance at the Theatre de Champs Elysees in, Paris, France, 1966 November 11.
  2. Copied in, Boulder, Colorado, 1968 July 8.
Original version
  1. Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (25 minutes) : analog, 6 1/4 ips, quarter track, stereo ; 5 in. rewound onto an archival 7 in. reel) in *LT-7-A 2407.
Restricted access
  1. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Linking entry
  1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Source
  1. Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Added author
  1. Mumma, Gordon, 1935- instrumentalist.
  2. Tudor, David, 1926-1996, instrumentalist.
  3. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
  4. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
  5. Music for (work) : Cunningham, Merce. Place.
Added title
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Found in:
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Research call number
  1. *LT-7-A 2407
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