- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (25 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Musique concrète.
- Note
- Contains Truckera, a found music component of John Cage's Europera 1 and 2, in which Stefan Beyst describes on his WWW site article as, "19 singers performing the song parts from opera fragments, 28 instrumentalists playing isolated parts form the orchestral accompaniment, and by the 'Truckera', a tape with 101 aria's superimposed".
- Title provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original DAT cassette and container.
- Handwritten note on original DAT cassette: "Truckera - John Cage". Handwritten note on original DAT container: "Technical information ; -Sampling frequency = 48 kHz ; -Tape is stripped with SMPTE time code (30 ND) ; -Program material starts at 1H00M00S00F (Time Code) OR at 2m00s real time is DAT player without T.C. is used ; -Tape is fully indexed ; Edited by John D.S. Adams May 25, '92 at McGill Recording Studios".
- Sound quality is good.
- Donor's inventory number: D052.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Indexed In (note)
- Stefan Beyst WWW site, accessed June 6, 2015
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LTD-A 694
- OCLC
- 911141667
- Author
Cage, John, composer.
- Title
Truckera, 1992-05-25 / music by John Cage; edited by John D.S. Adams.
- Production
May 25, 1992.
- Playing Time
002509
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Indexed In:
Stefan Beyst WWW site, accessed June 6, 2015, On Artists, John Cage's Europeras: a light- and soundscape as musical manifesto, August 2005, http://d-sites.net/english/cage.htm.
- Event
Recorded at McGill University, Montréal, Québec, 1992 May 25.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (audio DAT cassette (25 minutes) : digital, .3209 ips, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, two track, stereo) in *LTD-A 694.
- 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
Adams, John D. S., 1966- recording engineer.
Related to (work): Cage, John. Europera, no. 2.
McGill University.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTD-A 694