Contains the music for one of Merce Cunningham's Events.
Title, location, and date provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original cassettes, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
Handwritten note on original DAT container and cassette: "Lincoln Center 8/7/98".
Handwritten note on original compact cassette: "Lincoln Center Outdoors 1998 ; EVENT ; 1/3 Tape A side 1 *This side for Merce [and] 2/3 Tape A side 2 ; (no fade in or out)". [Tape B or part 3/3 was not included in the donation of the collection].
Sound quality is good; all of the recordings end abruptly.
Donor's inventory number: D377.
Based on content, recording medium, and recording quality, it is undetermined whether the compact cassette is a copy of the original DAT cassette or a separate recording of the same event.
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.
Title
Event no. 633 : performance at Lincoln Center, 1998-08-07.
Production
August 7, 1998.
Playing time
012617 003219 002954
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
audio
Type of carrier
audiocassette
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
[Takehisa Kosugi, James O'Rourke, and Christian Marclay], musicians.
Event
Recorded at Lincoln Center, as part of the Out of Doors festival, in New York, New York, 1998 August 7.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Original version
Archival original: (1 audio DAT cassette (86 minutes) : digital, .3209 ips, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, two track, stereo) in *LTD-A 935.
Original version
Archival original copy: (1 audio cassette (62 minutes total) : analog) in *LTC-A 1658.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Local note
Transferred from original DAT cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Transferred from original analog cassette *LTC-A 1658 by George Blood Audio on March 26, 2015; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides.