- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (93 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Biped (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Modern dance music.
- Note
- Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Biped (1999).
- Title, date and performers provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original DA8, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
- Handwritten note on original DA8: "0-45:35 Take One 4-24 1,2,3,4,6,7 ; 47:00- Take Two 4-24 1,2,3,4,6,7 ; Take two is good".
- Sound quality is 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.
- Contents
- Biped, take 1 / Gavin Bryars (Gavin Bryars, James Woodrow , Loren Dempster, and Takehisa Kosugi) (0:00-46:59) -- Biped, take 2 / Bryars (Bryars, Woodrow , Dempster, and Kosugi) (47:08-1:33:02)
- Call Number
- *LTD-A 938
- OCLC
- 952487366
- Author
Bryars, Gavin, composer.
- Title
Biped : rehearsal, and, performance at Zellerbach Hall, 1999-04-24 / music by Gavin Bryars.
- Production
April 23, 1999.
- Playing Time
013302
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Performer
[Gavin Bryars, James Woodrow , Loren Dempster, and Takehisa Kosugi], musicians.
- Event
Recorded [in rehearsal and performance at Zellerbach Hall] in, Berkeley, California, 1999 April 23.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio DA8 cassette (93 minutes) : digital, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, eight track, mono) in *LTD-A 938.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original DA8 cassette by George Blood Audio on March 26, 2015.
Original DA8 cassette contains 8 recording streams. The New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts created a composite audio file consisting of all 8 streams based on the GP Records production of Biped © 2001.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Bryars, Gavin, instrumentalist.
Dempster, Loren, instrumentalist.
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- instrumentalist.
Woodrow, James, instrumentalist.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Zellerbach Hall (University of California, Berkeley)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Biped (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTD-A 938