- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (55 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Tread (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Title provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on the original containers. All other recording information including the date, performer and instrumentation, provided by the cataloger based on audition and liner notes for The art of David Tudor, 1963-1992, c. 2013, New World Records.
- Handwritten note on original container and reel no. 1: "Wolff : 1, 2, or 3 <<TREAD>> ; Reel 1 TR A & B ; 4tr Stereo ; special 60/50 Hz 3.75 ips". Handwritten note on original container and reel no. 2: "Wolff : 1, 2, or 3 <<TREAD>> ; Reel 2 TR A & B ; 4tr Stereo ; special 60/50 Hz 3.75 ips".
- Contains music for Merce Cunningham's Tread (1970); the relationship between Reel 1 and Reel 2 is unidentified.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Event (note)
- Likely recorded in performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in the 1970's.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 2441
- OCLC
- 902688744
- Author
Wolff, Christian, 1934- composer.
- Title
For 1, 2, or 3 people : music for Tread / music by Christian Wolff.
- Production
[probably 1970's?]
- Playing Time
002724 002723
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Performer
David Tudor, baroque organ, live electronics.
- Event
Likely recorded in performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in the 1970's.
- Original Version
Archival original: (2 audiotape reels (55 minutes total) : analog, 3 3/25 ips, quarter track, stereo ; 5 in. rewound onto an archival 7 in. reels) in *LT-7-A 2441.
- 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.
- Local Note
Transferred from two original open tape reels 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 and 5, 2014.
The archival original recordings were produced at a non standard speed, 16.66% faster than 3.75 ips, for the purpose of being played in locations where the playback equipment uses a 50 Hz standard in order to compensate for pitch.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Tudor, David, 1926-1996, instrumentalist.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Tread (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2441