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Note 1: ""Torn a Flight of Dust""; Note 2: CD1: Trs. 1-3 random monologue on TV/radio?? CD2: Trs. 1-3 Same random monologue.;

Note 1: "June 7, 1964. Visit by Joh and Jurdy and their adoption of two fo Tabun's kittens. The the reel continues as T.V. comes on and a programs about pornography. Some other items. 2nd side. 1st track. 1. Some Nishiyama and Carole talking. 2. Part of "Decision of the War." Also Henry Taylor various ..... 3. A bit of Movie. 4. A bit of Lou Propaganda."; Note 2: CD1: Trs. 1-12 Loft Convo. Carole and kids talking and playing w/ kittens. Enter Gene (tr.2). Continuing convo w/ kids (adopting kittens) kids asking about recording equipment. CD2: Tr. 1, Smith talking to mama cat then turns on radio. Trs. 2-9 radio show "Eye on New York" about censorship. CD3: Trs. 1-15 in Loft white noise/static but really low muffled voices sporadically in the background/kids maybe?? CD4: Trs. 1-6 in Loft. white noise. CD5: Trs. 1-10 in Loft. Radio show then Carole talking to Japanese guy about silver dollars/bank. Talking about Charlie Reynolds coming over later. Room noise, cat sound, machine sound then radio and background noise drown out convo. CD6: Trs. 1-10 NBC show about 'atom bomb'. CD7: Trs.1-11 TV (NBC) news about civil rights demonstration in FL, riot caused by Beatles in Australia. Then show about Pres. LBJ, barbeque host and politician. CD 8 Tr. 1 in Loft convo w/ 2 or 3 people. Difficult to hear due to noise/talking about air conditioning. Tr. 2 Convo in Loft (volume of convo low) man (foreign) and woman talking about Coney Island. Tr. 3 convo barely audible. Trs. 4-14 WJRZ radio 970. shows, "The Green Hornet". CD9 Trs. 1-14 radio Green Hornet then Sherlock Holmes. CD10: Trs. 1-5 radio, then TV, Trs. 5/6-10 Ed Sullivan w/ Sammy Davis Jr., etc.;

Note 1: "3-10-56. Night Scene (Up to 3 minute ….)"; Note 2: CD: Tracks 1 & 2. Dog barking then man and woman talking/barking, tickling each other?!?;

Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CD1Trs. 1-5 sports/golf/gun safety, flipping channels from NBC-CBS. Tr.6,7,8: NBC news about Malcolm X being shot and killed, then Tr. 9-14 "The 20th Century" w/ Cronkite. CD2 Tr. 1-14 TV programming. CD3 Tr. 1-11 TV programming CD4: Trs. 1-2 Smith and Carole in the Loft.Talking way in the background. Tr. 3 Guest (male) stops by the loft. Smith/man (guest) Carole talking about pictures from Japan/exhibit. Tr. 4 Man asks Carlone about pictures of paintings from Japan. Tr. 5 Man tells Gene it is a shame he doesn't have TV. Gene says he does and that he records news and TV shows in addition to radio shows. Says he recorded two lengthy TV tracks and radio tracks when Kennedy was killed. Gene says he plans to listen back to them and analyze them in about 20 years. Trs. 6-7 Man and Gene continue convo re: when Gene was at Life mag. Tr.8 Gene leaves and Carole is talking to man about Japan and her history as a set design artist then photographer. She did set design for an Arthur Miller play. Tr. 9 Convo w/ Carole and man continues: She talks about being a student at Cooper Union and that she hopes to do set design again someday. Tr. 10 Carole talks to man about meeting Gene. A friend said he knew a photographer (Gene) who wanted sketching for layout placement for a book. Says her parents live in the Village. She went to high school in Mt. Vernon NY. Talks about large photo essay they are working on for Gene's book. Man asks if Gene has publisher. Carole says no but there is a Swiss group that may pay for printing. Trs 9-12 Man (who is maybe an editor for a mag??) continues talking to Carole about upcoming issue on Japan. Tr. 13 Story about Carole photographing Labor Day parade. Carole calls man "Edge"?? or something like that, then talks to Gene...sounds like on an intercom. Trs. 14-15 shuffling background noise. CD5 Tr.1-6 Loft background noise then Gene and same guy are talking about Hitachi Guy wants to do a 'history of Japanese photography' in Japan issue of some?? publication that he edits. Tr.7-13 Same convo continues....CD6 Trs. 1-7 Same Loft convo w/ man. CD7 Trs. 1-15 (all Loft conversation). Knock at door, women comes in/talks to Gene (maybe some interviewer or something?). Gene leaves woman alone and you can hear her shuffling paper for several tracks. Gene returns and apologizes for leaving the recorder on. They talk about work, woman asks how much it would take to get the book out. Shows woman a picture of Hall Overton/Gene talks about gradually taking over the Loft space/talk about T. Monk, etc. Man enters, seems drunk. Gene tells him about recording shows so he can listen to them later. They continue to talk about financing projects, books, etc. CD8 Trs. 1-13 previous conversation continued. CD9 previous conversation continued Gene talks about a picture of a monkey named after himCD10 Trs. 1-14 TV Elliot Ness/Shindig CD11 TV programming CD12 Trs. 1-11 TV news from Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1965 Ranger 8 taking pictures of the moon, more TV;

Note 1: "1963 - Milorded Baney About 85 min. Also Gene, Carole, Farry, and Lee Lockwood, Before Symposium. Suspense - The Devil Takes a Soul. Drois Day, Singing in the Rain. 3. Roll over Beethoved. 4. Chris Barber - "Petite … 5. Andetc's Like wise to roll end. 2nd side. My Boom or rang won. 3. Pat ....Milking Daddy. 4. More Music. - Al. 5. Crosby - Armstrong."; Note 2: CD1 Trs. 1-6 Radio programming/religious CD2 Trs. 1-13 Convo in Loft. Talking about fungi in caves. Sound quality is different. They (Gene, maybe Carole?) are talking to another man and woman about acoustics and listening back to recorded voices. CD3 Trs. 1-9 Radio programming show "Sold to Satan". CD4 Trs. 1-25 WBAI radio programming. Great show about Mildred Bailey.;

Note 1: "Narration w/ sound track. Welfare Island."; Note 2: CD1 Trs. 1-12 Gene and Carole way in the background. Mostly sounds of cats. Also sounds like there is a police scanner or something on in background. They are talking about and to the cats and kittens. CD2 Trs.1-12 more cats, background noise, police scanner/radio? CD 3 Trs.1-11 Same noise w/ number/scanner thing repeating over and over. Cats, Gene talking softly to Tabun and sometimes Carole. CD4 Tracks 1-5 white/tape noise, occasionally a bus goes by. CD5 Tracks 1-5 radio? Dylan Thomas reading 'King Lear' show called Spoken Word recorded 10 years before at Museum of Modern Art. CD6 Tracks 1-13 white noise/Gene/Carole whispering, talking to cats radio faintly in bacground. CD7 Trs. 1-12 same as CD6 but there is background music-hard to tell if it is radio.CD8 Trs. 1-5 Carole talking to Gene, discussion of trimming cat's claws. cat in heat, Gene makes rude/offensive comment about cat;

Note 1: "1st side. 104 B) Newport Jazz Festival. Final night. Taped a 7 1/2 or Pentron (bad-jumbled start) -Brubeck cut in two, continued on back side of 102. Final part of "shoe makes holiday. Also music Camels 10th Symphony."; Note 2: CD1 Tracks 1-2 Radion programming CD2 Tracks 1-2 radio programming (music) WNYC-FM CD3 Trs. 1-15 radio programming CD4 Tracks 1-14 Radio programming WNYC concert in Battery Park to commemorate 35th anniversary of WNYC. CD5 Tracks 1-10 Battery Park concert continues. Trs. 11-14 more radio (1959 b/c Eisenhour is pres) 1st rabid bat is found in NYC and Detroit auto workers earn $2.60 an hour.;