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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: tangents Re: Considering 4'33''
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.224036.20793@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <1eb2neINNecj@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> <1992Nov17.160733.1518@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov17.134830.17534@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:40:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.134830.17534@husc3.harvard.edu> elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.160733.1518@Princeton.EDU>
- >roger@astro.princeton.edu (Roger Lustig) writes:
- >>[...]
- >>Me, I *listen* to CDs; just seeing them does little for me.
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- >Questions re the aesthetic experience of looking at an LP or CD,
- >and the difference between listening to a recording of 4'33" and
- >looking at the recording medium for the same length of time, left
- >as exercises for readers with nothing better to do. ;-)
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- What could be better than that? 8-)
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- >> [...] A CD holds as much as 80 minutes of music. What's
- >>one short piece more or less, even if you don't like it? Would you buy
- >>a CD of Rite of Spring plus Miraculous Mandarin plus 4'33"?
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- >Oh, great --- now you'll have the Cage estate claiming copyright
- >infringement on any CD with less than 75 minutes of music on it :-)
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- What happens when your LP of 4'33" starts to skip?
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- After the performance, does one applaud with one hand?
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- Roger
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