- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (94 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Streaming file 1: Rehearsal of songs by the Beatles, ca. 0:00-4:29; whale sounds recorded at Lancaster Sound, ca. 4:30-47:04.
- Streaming file 2: Whale sounds recorded at Baffin Island, ca. 0:00-47:01.
- Uniform Title
- Shards (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Nature sounds.
- Note
- Probably contains source material recorded for use in the music of Merce Cunningham's Shards (1987), and, an overdub of an unidentified band rehearsing Beatles' songs.
- Title provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original cassette and container, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
- Handwritten note on original cassette and container: "Arctic Whales ; Side A: 26Jun/87; Lancaster Sound ; Spring floe edge -all belugas near end ; Side B: 14Aug/85 ; Baffin Island -Narwhals ; Recording © John Ford [COPY]". Sticker with handwritten note affixed to original container: "Side A".
- Sound quality of the streaming files are very poor and muffled; the original cassette has better sound quality.
- Donor's inventory number: C287.
- 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
- *LTC-A 1695
- OCLC
- 913834287
- Title
Arctic whales : source material for [David Tudor's Webwork?]; and, unidentified band rehearsing Beatles' songs, 1985-08-14, and, 1987-06-26.
- Production
August 14, 1985, and, June 26, 1987.
- Playing Time
004704 004701
- Type of Content
sounds
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Side a mostly recorded at Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada, 1987 June 26.
Side b recorded at Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, 1985 August 14.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (94 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1695.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides: C287a, and, c287b.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Related to (work): Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Webwork.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Related to (work) : Shards (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1695