Below are items related to Gordon Mumma's CageDisks#1.doc file: 1. The introductory text. 2. The indexed entries, which are organized by disk and Cage's "number-icons" in the order that they appear on the document created by Gordon. Select an entry to view the text about each disk and the recordings as obtained from the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. 3. The original document that Gordon provided. --- ## Introductory Text > John Cage EARLY RECORDINGS > CageDisks#1.doc > 00/08/07 > > This copy for LETA MILLER > > Gordon Mumma: Information on the 16" diameter (radio format) 33 1/3 rpm recordings made by John Cage in the western United States from the late 1930s to 1942. > > In a single paper folder, with the written notation "for Mr. Earle Brown," are the following 10 disks, in order of Cage's number-icons, not necessarily in chronological order. Not all disks are numbered, and some numbers are missing. These 16" disks were certainly recorded at 33 1/3 rpm, but the needle-size may vary (there were several standards) and most were recorded in the _center -> edge_ format (meaning that the disks were engraved from the center to the outside). Use of the later format (edge -> center), was developed circa 1940s, and its use overlapped the other format into the late 1940s. Other 16" recordings exist, after 1942 (catalogued in CageDisk#2.doc). > > N.B! Dates in square brackets after title are not on the recordings. --- ## Index - [[D1 (H 027)]], Disc 1 - [[D2 (H 029)]], Disc 2 - [[D3 (H 031)]], Disc 3 - [[D4 (H 035)]], Disc 4 - [[D5 (H 036)]], Disc 5 - [[D6 (H 037)]], Disc 6 - [[D7 (H 038)]], Disc 7 - [[D8 (H 039)]], Disc 8 - [[D9 (H 026)]], Disc 9 --- ## Original Document Here is the original document that Gordon Mumma typed up to describe these recordings: ![[Mumma - CageDisks1.pdf]]