- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (25 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Place (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Title, dates, locations and performers provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on the original container and a note card insert.
- Handwritten note on original container: "Mesa <<Place>> ; special 60/50 Hz 7.5 ips ; QTRTRK St".
- Accompanying note card insert, handwritten: "Gordon Mumma: Mesa (1966) (PLACE) ; Special Tape ; Quarter track Stereo, 7.5 ips (19 cm/sec) ; For playback on 60 Hz machines at 50 Hz cyclage ; David Tudor, bandoneon / Gordon Mumma, cybersonics ; includes: Place extension closing from the Theatre de Champs Elysees performance of 9 November 1966. ; Dub at Boulder, Colo. on UHER 4400 from Viking 86, 8 July 1968."
- Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Place (1966).
- Sound quality is mostly good; recording ends abruptly.
- 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 2407
- OCLC
- 902688628
- Author
Mumma, Gordon, 1935- composer.
- Title
Mesa : music for Place / music by Gordon Mumma.
- Production
November 9, 1966.
- Playing Time
002444
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Performer
David Tudor, bandoneon, and Gordon Mumma, cybersonics.
- Event
Recorded in performance at the Theatre de Champs Elysees in, Paris, France, 1966 November 11.
Copied in, Boulder, Colorado, 1968 July 8.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (25 minutes) : analog, 6 1/4 ips, quarter track, stereo ; 5 in. rewound onto an archival 7 in. reel) in *LT-7-A 2407.
- 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 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 August 4, 2014.
The archival original recording was produced at a non standard speed, 16.66% faster than 7.5 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
Mumma, Gordon, 1935- instrumentalist.
Tudor, David, 1926-1996, instrumentalist.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Place (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2407