- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 9 streaming audio files (40 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Machinery sounds.
- Musique concrète.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Based on collection context, it is likely that these cassette sound recordings were made to be components in a work by John Cage, [possibly Variations V?].
- Title provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original cassettes and audition.
- Handwritten note on original cassette no. 1: "Oscillator Low ; 2". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 2: "Kettle ; 3". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 3: "Bicycle ; 4". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 4: "Oscillator/Phas High Pitch ; 5". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 5: "Television ; 6". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 6: "Iron Curtain ; 7". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 7: "Cuisinart ; 8". Based on original cassette numbering, it is likely that the first original cassette of this series was not included in the donation to the New York Public Library and/or is missing.
- Sound quality is mostly good.
- 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 1652
- OCLC
- 933582866
- Title
Sound recordings : source material [for Variations V?].
- Production
[probably between 1970 -1980?].
- Playing Time
000416 000434 000409 000407 000412 000403 000405 000537 000425
- Type of Content
sounds
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival originals: (7 audio cassettes (40 minutes total) : analog) in *LTC-A 1652.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from seven original analog cassettes by George Blood Audio on March 26, 2015; nine preservation files were created based on the cassette sides.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Related to (work): Cage, John. Variations. No. 5.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1652