Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-2018
2. Pugliese, Michael
3. Tudor, David, 1926-1996
4. Miller, Rob (Robert E.)
5. Behrman, David
6. Tudor, David, 1926-1996.
7. Cunningham, Merce
8. Joyce Theater (New York, N.Y.)
9. Merce Cunningham Dance Company
10. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor

Found in

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Description

1. 2 streaming audio files (62 minutes total) : digital, stereo

Alternative title

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.

Subject

1. Live sound recordings
2. Musique concrète
3. Modern dance music
4. Electronic music
5. Computer and violin music
6. Aleatory music

Genre/Form

1. Live sound recordings.

Contents

1. Streaming file 1: Shards ["Webwork" / David Tudor (Tudor)] (0:00-25:50) -- Begins abruptly, Pictures ["Interspecies smalltalk" / David Behrman (Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese)] (25:52-29:47)
2. Streaming file 2: Begins abruptly, Pictures ["Interspecies smalltalk" / David Behrman (Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese)]

Call number

1. *LTC-A 1284

Note

1. Title, date, performers, and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original cassette and insert, performance program, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
2. Handwritten note on original cassette, side a: "David Tudor - SHARDS ; 3/88 ; Rec. by R. Miller". Side b: "Pictures 3/88 Full mix ; matinee".
3. Handwritten insert on scratch pad paper from Hilton Hotel, Glendale: "Full mix 3/88 matinee ; Kosugi mix better. ; no silence 15'12 pt. II, 29'45" ; at. 21-22 mdw. pitches ; at. 27" scratchy sound".
4. Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Shards (1987), and, Pictures (1984).
5. Sound quality is mostly good; streaming file 2 begins abruptly and there is a low hum throughout the recording.
6. Donor's inventory number: C179.

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.

Title

1. Shards, and, Pictures : performance at the Joyce Theater, 1988-03.

Production

1. March [12 or 13?], 1988.

Playing time

1. 003038 003057

Type of content

1. performed music

Type of medium

1. audio

Type of carrier

1. audiocassette
2. online resource

Digital file characteristics

1. audio file

Performer

1. Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese, and David Tudor, musicians.

Event

1. Recorded in a matinee performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, New York, 1988 March [12 or 13?].

Restricted access

1. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.

Original version

1. Archival original: (1 audiocassette (62 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1284.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Local note

1. Transferred from original analog cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides: C179a NEW and, C179b NEW.

Source

1. Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-2018, instrumentalist.
2. Pugliese, Michael, instrumentalist.
3. Tudor, David, 1926-1996, instrumentalist.
4. Miller, Rob (Robert E.), recording engineer.
5. Container of (work): Behrman, David. Interspecies smalltalk.
6. Container of (work): Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Webwork.
7. Joyce Theater (New York, N.Y.)
8. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
9. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
10. Music for (work) : Cunningham, Merce. Pictures.
11. Music for (work): Cunningham, Merce. Shards.

Added title

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.

Found in:

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Research call number

1. *LTC-A 1284