- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 3 streaming audio files (41 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Travelogue (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Nature sounds.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Contains birdsong and mechanical recordings used as components of John Cage's music for Merce Cunningham's Travelogue (1977); includes the verbal introductions for the bird calls by an unidentified speaker.
- Title and date provided by cataloger based on handwritten and typed notes on original cassettes and containers, audition, and information provided by the John Cage Trust.
- Handwritten note on original cassette no. 1, side a: "Birds & Teles Reel I ; 126". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 1, side b: "West Point 7/4/79 dby". Typed note on original container no. 1: ""Birds and Telephones" reel 1: music for Travelogue by John Cage". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 2: "153 Birds & Tele's Reel 2". Typed note on original container no. 2: "Music for Travelogue by John Cage". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 3: "Technics Reel 3 ; L CH only ; Birds & Telephones". Handwritten note on original container no. 3: "Music for Travelogue by John Cage".
- Sound quality is mostly good; the speaker is occasionally slightly muffled.
- Donor's inventory numbers: C237, C236, and, C235.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Indexed In (note)
- John Cage Trust website, accessed July 15, 2015
- Event (note)
- Dubbed from unidentified original reels.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LTC-A 1669
- OCLC
- 913834727
- Title
Telephones and birds : birdsong and mechanical recordings, 1979.
- Production
1979.
- Playing Time
000754 002208 001027
- Type of Content
sounds
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Indexed In:
John Cage Trust website, accessed July 15, 2015, Database of works: Telephones and birds, http://johncage.org/pp/John-Cage-Work-Detail.cfm?work_ID=198
- Event
Dubbed from unidentified original reels.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival originals : (3 audio cassettes (41 minutes total) : analog) in *LTC-A 1669.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from three original analog cassettes by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Cassette no. 1, side b contains sounds of military exercises conducted at West Point [United States Military Academy] on July 4, 1979, that were recorded for unidentified purposes. The Merce Cunningham Dance Company did not make a digital transfer of this recording.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Related to (work): Cage, John. Telephones and birds.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Related to (work) : Travelogue (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1669