- Additional Authors
- Dempster, Stuart
- Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-
- O'Rourke, Jim, 1969-
- Tudor, David, 1926-1996.
- Culver, Andrew, 1953-
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (91 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Ocean (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Ocean (1994) that consists of the simultaneous playing of orchestral music, Ocean 1-95 by Andrew Culver, and live electronic music, Sounding: ocean diary by David Tudor. The compositional structure of Ocean 1-95 was originally created by John Cage and, after Cage's death, completed by Andrew Culver using Cage's ideas.
- Title, date, location, and performers provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original DAT container.
- Handwritten note on original DAT container: "Ocean ; 10-31-98 ; Nigata, Japan ; O'Rourke, Kosugi, +Dempster (on motor control)".
- Sound quality is good; there is brief audience applause at the end of the recording.
- Donor's inventory number: D233.
- 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
- *LTD-A 797
- OCLC
- 894374492
- Title
Ocean : performance in Nigata, Japan, 1998-10-31 / music by Andrew Culver (after John Cage) and David Tudor.
- Production
October 31, 1998.
- Playing Time
013034
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Performer
Jim O'Rourke, Takehisa Kosugi, and Stuart Dempster, live electronic musicians.
- Event
Recorded in performance in, Nigata, Japan, 1998 October 31.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio DAT cassette (91 minutes) : digital, .3209 ips, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, two track, stereo) in *LTD-A 797.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original DAT cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Dempster, Stuart, instrumentalist.
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- instrumentalist.
O'Rourke, Jim, 1969- instrumentalist.
Container of (work): Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Soundings: ocean diary.
Container of (work): Culver, Andrew, 1953- Ocean 1-95.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Ocean (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTD-A 797