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Between 4′33′′ and 4 3/4 in
Cage’s surrendering of the composer’s will to chance in his 4’33″ of silence provides an appropriate starting point for exploring the sound recordings collection at York, where the idiosyncratic and the expected sit next to each other, while libraries, with their custodial instincts for storage and retrieval, provide 4 3/4 inches of material description and facilitated access, somewhere in between the minutes of time and the inches of space.
This blog is a place where you can find information about the York University Libraries music collection of CDs, scores, books, and subscriptions to online music periodical indexes, dictionaries, and audio streaming.