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John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives.
Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4′33″, which is performed in the absence of deliberate sound; musicians who present the work do nothing aside from being present for the duration specified by the title. The content of the composition is not "four minutes and 33 seconds of silence," as is often assumed, but rather the sounds of the environment heard by the audience during performance. The work's challenge to assumed definitions about musicianship and musical experience made it a popular and controversial topic both in musicology and the broader aesthetics of art and performance. Cage was also a pioneer of the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by objects placed between or on its strings or hammers), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces. The best known of these is Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48).
His teachers included Henry Cowell (1933) and Arnold Schoenberg (1933–35), both known for their radical innovations in music, but Cage's major influences lay in various East and South Asian cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s, Cage came to the idea of aleatoric or chance-controlled music, which he started composing in 1951. The I Ching, an ancient Chinese classic text on changing events, became Cage's standard composition tool for the rest of his life. In a 1957 lecture, Experimental Music, he described music as "a purposeless play" which is "an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living".
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Cartridge Music
Happy Birthday John!
Cage Against the Machine Single
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Lost Daylight
ASLSP
In a Silent Way
4′33″ Single
Double Edge
Etudes Australes
Ryoanji
The Lost Works
[untitled]
New York School 3
The Number Pieces I
Sixteen Dances
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Winter Music
Roaratorio
Works for Percussion
Cheap Imitation
Popular Songs
- Sonata XIV and XV “Gemini” - after the Work by Richard Lippold
- Études Boréales: No. 3
- Études Boréales: No. 4
- Études Boréales: No. 2
- 59 1/2 seconds
- Études Boréales: No. 1
- But What About the Noise of Crumpling Paper Which He Used to Do in Order to Paint the Series of "Papiers Froissés" or Tearing Up Paper to Make "Papiers Déchirés"? Arp Was Stimulated by Water (Sea, Lake, and Flowing Waters Like Rivers), Forests
- One⁸
- Die Geschichte des Sandkorns
- Here 2
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- Imaginary Landscape N°.5
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- Apartment House 1776: Harmony 44 "Bloomfield"
- Apartment House 1776: Harmony 38 "The Lord is Ris'n"
- Apartment House 1776: Harmony 15 "Bellingham"
- Apartment House 1776: Harmony 28 "Greenwich"
- Apartment House 1776: Harmony 35 "Framingham"
- One
- Seven Haiku
- Two Pieces for Piano: Piece N° 2
- Two Pieces for Piano: Piece N° 1
- Metamorphosis 4
- Metamorphosis 2
- Metamorphosis 5
- Metamorphosis 3
- Metamorphosis 1
- 36 Mesostics re and not re Marcel Duchamp
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