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- Born: September 5, 1912
- Died: August 12, 1992
- Teachers included Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg
- Went to the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington
- Associated with Black Mountain College where he served as a faculty member along with Merce Cunningham
- Amateur mycologist and mushroom collector
- Co-founded the New York Mycological Society
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John Cage is considered by many critics to be one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He pioneered the use of chance and silence in composition, electronic music and physically augmenting instruments for their use in performance. One of Cage's most famous compositions 4'33" is performed by a pianist who takes the stage and doesn't play a single note. Instead, the audience focuses on the sound of their environment for the full 4 minutes and 33 seconds. Cage was also famous for "preparing" pianos by by weighting their strings to produce unusual sounds.
Cage played a role in the evolution of modern dance through his lifelong collaboration with avant-garde choreographer Merce Cunningham. Using elements of chance, Cage would create scores for Cunningham's dances, but the dancers nor Cunningham would hear the score until the night of the performance. The reverse was true as well; Cage wouldn't see the dance for which he was composing until the music and the movement met on stage.
Cage's preoccupation with incorporating chance into his work came from his study of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism. The text of the I Ching was an important composition tool for Cage.
In addition to composing, Cage was a prolific writer and visual artist.
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John Cage on Amazon
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Silence: Lectures and Writings - $24.95
Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing which comes fr...Amazon
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John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures - $34.95
Uniting fifty never-before-seen watercolor images, this book explores the powerful influence of Zen on the renowned artist and composer’s work. This book brings t...Amazon
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John Cage: Sculptures Musicales, Twenty-Six with Twenty-Nine, Twenty-Six with Twenty-Eight & Twenty-Nine, Eighty / Christina Fong, Prague Winds, Karen Krummel, Michael Crawford, Glenn Freeman, The Chance Operations Collective - $32.99
Fourteenth in a series with previously unreleased works by well-known composers, this 121-minute 96kHz|24bit Audio DVD features the world premiere recordings of John Cage's Sculptu...Amazon
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Variations VII by John Cage: E.A.T. - 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering - $25.00
In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, 9 Ev...Amazon
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Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. - John Cage
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones ~ John Cage
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: Marcel Duchamp + John Cage. Film: Hans Richter. http://bit.ly/1B22QG
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just watched 2012. amazing graphics. completely surreal - john cusack was just begging nicholas cage. thats how awesome it was.
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Last chance to see John Barrowman in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. Watch the video here: http://ow.ly/GkYP
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