Below are items related to Gordon Mumma's CageDisks#2.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#2.doc > 00/08/07 > > This copy for LETA MILLER > > Gordon Mumma: Information on the nine 16" diameter (radio format) 33 1/3 rpm recordings made by John Cage in the eastern United States from the late 1944s to the early 1950s. > > These nine 16" disks were certainly recorded at 33 1/3 rpm, but the needle-size may vary (there were several standards) and were recorded in the _edge -> center_ format (meaning that the disks were engraved from the center to the outside). This format (edge -> center), was developed circa 1940s, and its use overlapped the inverse format into the late 1940s. Other 16" recordings exist, before 1942 (catalogued in CageDisk#1.doc). > > N.B! Dates and information in square brackets in these notes are not on the recordings. The "H nnn" annotations, preceding two of the recordings, refer to Cage's numer-icons (indexes). --- ## Index - [[D10]] - [[D11]] - [[D12 (H 028)]] - [[D13]] - [[D14]] - [[D15]] - [[D16]] - [[D17 (H 025)]] --- ## Original Document Here is the original document that Gordon Mumma typed up to describe these recordings: ![[Mumma - CageDisks2.pdf]]