Title, dates, locations and performers provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on the original container and a note card insert.
Handwritten note on original container: "Mesa <<Place>> ; special 60/50 Hz 7.5 ips ; QTRTRK St".
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."
Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Place (1966).
Sound quality is mostly good; recording 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.
Local note
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.
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
Mumma, Gordon, 1935- composer.
Title
Mesa : music for Place / music by Gordon Mumma.
Production
November 9, 1966.
Playing time
002444
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
audio
Type of carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
David Tudor, bandoneon, and Gordon Mumma, cybersonics.
Event
Recorded in performance at the Theatre de Champs Elysees in, Paris, France, 1966 November 11.
Copied in, Boulder, Colorado, 1968 July 8.
Original version
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
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.