1926 John Cage FREQUENCY RECORD VICTOR 84511 Constant Note 15 Western Electric
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A series of great Violin, Piano and Orchestra records on rare labels, from 1902 Monarch to 1940 War Germany recordings.
One of the series of Test records with the new Western Electric recording system, for testing and calibrating reproduction devices, loudspeakers, phonographs.
THIS IS NOT A SWEEP RECORD, each frequency is played for 50 secs.
THESE RECORDS WERE USED BY JOHN CAGE for some of his early preformance pieces
However, some tones slide for 1 - 1.5 semitones
four bands per side
Constant note record, no. 15 (Primary title) Disc label (RDI)
Frequency vib./sec.: 4400 ; 4500 ; 4600 ; 4700 (Subtitle) Victor catalog
Constant note record, no. 15 (Primary title) Disc label (RDI)
Frequency vib./sec.: 4000 ; 4100 ; 4200 ; 4300 (Subtitle)
Victor Records technical staff (unnamed) (other)
1/19/1926 Camden, New Jersey [unconfirmed] 1 Master Victor 84511
A Victor “Technical purpose records” catalog describes this series of recordings as intended to be “of service in the study of sound and in the development of sound reproducing devices.” The catalog states that each frequency plays for 50 seconds.
Double sided 12" 78 rpm record.
Condition: VERY GOOD PLLUS PLUS, unworn but rubs and fine scratches, plays very quiet w some crackle
One puzzling fact: the 4000 Hz band plays 4275 hz @ 78.26 rpm.
4000 Hz given at 73.5 rpm
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John Cage (1912-92)
It’s not a physical landscape. It’s a term reserved for the new technologies. It’s a landscape in the future. It’s as though you used technology to take you off the ground and go like Alice through the looking glass. The Imaginary Landscape No. 1 was written to be subsequently broadcast or heard as a recording. It is in effect a piece of proto-musique concrete, though naturally, since at that date there was no tape, the instruments were records of constant and variable frequencies (then available chiefly for audio research), cymbal, and string piano (Henry Cowell’s manually muted grand piano). The original performance took place in two separate studios, the sounds being picked up by two microphones and mixed in the control booth. It has been used as a dance accompaniment by Bonnie Bird (Imaginary Landscape) and Marian Van Tuyl (Horror Dream).
— John Cage
In the score to the work, Cage specifies the following records: Victor Frequency Record 84522 B at 33-1/3 and 78 RPM, Victor Constant Note Record No. 24 (84519 B) at 33-1/3 and 78 RPM, and Victor Frequency Record 84522 A. These records proved to be long out of circulation, and very hard to reconstruct, and it is with much gratitude that I thank Leta Miller of U.C. Santa Cruz for generously sharing her research and her insights on recreating the original records.
A series of great Records about Dixie, the Civil War, early One Step, Cakewalk and Blackface performers
issued first in 1901 Record No 485 on rare COLUMBIA CONDITIONS RECORD
NO 485
Here take 4 without performers named
ANNOUNCED Edward Favor What do you of Think O'HOOLIHAN
Edward Favor singing w piano, a second person shouting comments
10" 78 rpm record
Condition:
VERY GOOD PLUS, plays w hissy swish, light fuzziness on top
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