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Sounds from the sea =: Immami pisorpalunnerit

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Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

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Title
Sounds from the sea =: Immami pisorpalunnerit
Additional title: Immami pisorpalunnerit
Names
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1986-05
Place: Copenhagen (1, Kroghsgade, DK-2100, Copehagen, Denmark)
Publisher: Ødegaard & Danneskiold-Samsøe
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTC-A 1691
Topics
Underwater acoustics
Whale sounds
Nature sounds
Genres
Sound recordings
Notes
Content: Title, date and location provided by cataloger based on original cassette discography and audition.
Content: Original cassette discography: "Sounds from the sea: Immami pisorpalunnerit ; Ødegaard & Danneskiold-Samsøe ApS ; Side A [English]: Introduction, Seismic Ship Noise 1:45 - Engine foundation vibration signal 0:45, Underwater noise close to the ship 1:10 ; Ambient Underwater Noise at Melville Bay, Winter - Introduction 1:10, Below pack ice cover 1:00, Below pack ice cover, snow drifting 1:05, Below fast ice cover 1:00 ; Ambient Underwater Noise, Summer - Off Thule 1:10, Baffin Bay, bearded seals 1:40, Lancaster Sound 1:05 ; Marine Mammal Sounds - Lancaster Sound, ice edge 4:40 ; Ice Breaker, Underwater Noise - Distance 2 km 2:10, Distance 35 km 1:40, Distance 55 km, including marine mammal sounds 2:05 ; Ødegaard & Danneskiold-Samsøe is a consulting engineering company which specializes in reduction of noise from ships, underwater acoustics and digital signal processing. Ødegaard & Danneskiold-Samsøe ApS 1, Kroghsgade DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark ; Side B: [Kalâtdlisut track list]".
Content: Based on collection context, possibly used as a component of the music for Merce Cunningham's Ocean (1994).
Numbering: Donor's inventory number: C285.
Venue: Recorded at Melville Bay, off Thule, Baffin Bay, and Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada, 1986.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Language: Side a contains introductions to the field recordings in English. Side b contains introductions to the field recordings in an unidentified Greenlandic dialect, probably Kalâtdlisut.
Content: Re-transferred from original analog cassette, (due to the poor sound quality), by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on April 14, 2015; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides: myh_ltca1691_v01f01_pm, and, myh_ltca1691_v01f02_pm.
Physical Description
Audiocassette
Extent: 1 audiocassette (46 minutes) : analog
Sound quality is good.
Description
Contains underwater acoustic and marine mammal field recordings taken near Nunavut, Canada by the Ministry of Greenland, for the purposes of environmental studies; produced by Ødegaard & Danneskiold-Samsøe.
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 913834770
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20731600
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): cb632cf0-b8eb-0133-acc1-60f81dd2b63c
Rights Statement
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  • 1986: Created
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Sounds from the sea =" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1986. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cfccf820-b8eb-0133-7b43-60f81dd2b63c

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Sounds from the sea =" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 28, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cfccf820-b8eb-0133-7b43-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1986). Sounds from the sea = Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cfccf820-b8eb-0133-7b43-60f81dd2b63c

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