Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Dempster, Loren
2. Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-2018
3. Woodrow, James
4. Merce Cunningham Dance Company
5. Zellerbach Hall (University of California, Berkeley)
6. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor
7. Cunningham, Merce

Found in

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.

Description

1. 1 streaming audio file (92 minutes) : digital, stereo

Alternative title

1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.

Subject

1. Electronic and cello music.
2. Electronic and guitar music.
3. Modern dance music.

Genre/Form

1. Live sound recordings.
2. Modern dance music.

Contents

1. Biped, rehearsal / Gavin Bryars (Gavin Bryars, James Woodrow , Loren Dempster, and Takehisa Kosugi) (0:00-45:16) -- Biped, premiere performance / Bryars (Bryars, Woodrow , Dempster, and Kosugi) (45:22-1:32:08)

Call number

1. *LTD-A 937

Language

1. No linguistic content

Note

1. Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Biped (1999).
2. Title, date and performers provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original DA8, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
3. Handwritten note on original DA8: "Rehearsal 4-23-99 Take One ; Premier Performance 4-23-99 Take 2".
4. Sound quality is good.

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 DA8 cassette by George Blood Audio on March 26, 2015.
2. Original DA8 cassette contains 8 recording streams. The New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts created a composite audio file consisting of all 8 streams based on the GP Records production of Biped © 2001.

Author

1. Bryars, Gavin, composer.

Playing time

1. 013208

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. [Gavin Bryars, James Woodrow , Loren Dempster, and Takehisa Kosugi], musicians.

Event

1. Recorded in rehearsal and performance at Zellerbach Hall in, Berkeley, California, 1999 April 23.

Original version

1. Archival original: (1 audio DA8 cassette (92 minutes) : digital, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, eight track, mono) in *LTD-A 937.

Source

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

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections