Channels/Inserts, Touchbase, and, Change of address: performance at City Center, 1993-03-20
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Title
Channels/Inserts, Touchbase, and, Change of address: performance at City Center, 1993-03-20
Collection
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials
Names
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Adams, John D. S., 1966- (Instrumentalist)
Benincasa, Rex (Instrumentalist)
Crafton, Randy (Instrumentalist)
Grossman, Kory (Instrumentalist)
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- (Instrumentalist)
Trigg, William (Instrumentalist)
Tudor, David, 1926-1996 (Instrumentalist)
Pugliese, Michael (Composer)
Tudor, David, 1926-1996 (Composer)
Zimmermann, Walter, 1949- (Composer)
City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.) (Host)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1993-03-20
Table Of Contents
Recording silence (0:00-0:59) -- [Channels/Inserts "Phonemes" / David Tudor (Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi)] (1:00-33:37) -- [Touchbase "Icebreeze" / Michael Pugliese (Rex Benincasa, Randy Crafton, Kory Grossman)] (34:00-1:02:45) -- [Change of address "Self-forgetting" / Walter Zimmermann (John D.S. Adams, Takehisa Kosugi, William Trigg, David Tudor)] (1:04:23-1:31:37)
Library Location
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTD-A 907 no. 9
Subjects
Aleatory music
Electronic and violin music
Electronic music
Frame drum music
Modern dance music
Vocalises
Waterphone music
Eckhart, Meister, -1327. Works. Selections
Pugliese, Michael. Icebreeze
Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Phonemes
Zimmermann, Walter, 1949- Vom Nutzen des Lassens. Selbstvergessen
Genres
Notes
Content: Title, date, location and performers provided by cataloger based on audition, collection context and original performance program.
Content: Sticker on original DAT container: "12". The "12" likely indicates the twelfth performance from the series of Merce Cunningham Dance Company performances at City Center, March 9-21, 1993.
Content: Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Channels/Inserts (1981), Touchbase (1992), and, Change of address (1992).
Content: The music for Change of address, Walter Zimmermann's Selbstvergessen (Self-forgetting), contains spoken short phrases of text by Meister Eckhart in German with some English.
Numbering: Donor's inventory number: D341.
Performers: Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, John D.S. Adams, Rex Benincasa, Randy Crafton, Kory Grossman, and William Trigg, musicians.
Venue: Recorded in the 2pm performance at City Center, New York, New York, [1993 March 20].
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 audio DAT cassette (62 minutes) : digital, .3209 ips, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, two track, stereo
Sound quality is good; there is brief audience applause following Change of address.
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 900005472
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20512988
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 152ac260-b82c-0133-8b0c-60f81dd2b63c
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Channels/Inserts, Touchbase, and, Change of address: performance at City Center, 1993-03-20" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1993. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/152ac260-b82c-0133-8b0c-60f81dd2b63c
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1993). Channels/Inserts, Touchbase, and, Change of address: performance at City Center, 1993-03-20 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/152ac260-b82c-0133-8b0c-60f81dd2b63c
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Channels/Inserts, Touchbase, and, Change of address: performance at City Center, 1993-03-20" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 11, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/152ac260-b82c-0133-8b0c-60f81dd2b63c
Wikipedia citation
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