- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 3 streaming audio files (26 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Travelogue (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Nature sounds.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Title and date provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original containers and audition.
- Handwritten note on original container no. 1: "Birds and Telephones I ; Cage, Travelogue, # 1 ; 31-12-76 ; Tudor". Handwritten note on original container no. 2: "[Birds and Telephones II - crossed out] Telephones and Birds ; Cage, Travelogue, # 2 ; 31-12-76 ; Kosugi". Handwritten note on original container no. 3: "Birds and Telephones III ; Full track master (original) 7 1/2 ips ; 31-12-76 ; III copy - 50 Hz version 1/4 tr stereo".
- Contains birdsong recordings used as part of the music for Merce Cunningham's Travelogue (1977), including the verbal introductions for the bird calls by an unidentified speaker.
- Donor's inventory numbers: R041 - R043.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 2430
- OCLC
- 890150807
- Author
Cage, John, composer.
- Title
Telephones and birds : birdsong recordings , 1976-12-31 / by John Cage.
- Production
December 31, 1976.
- Playing Time
000919 000918 000806
- Type of Content
sounds
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded in an unknown location, 1976 December 31.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (3 audiotape reels (26 minutes total) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, mono ; 5 in. rewound onto archival 7 in. reels) in *LT-7-A 2430.
- Linking Entry
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 July 10, 2014.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Travelogue (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2430