John cage

Alex Ross on Cage’s radical composition “4'33" ” and the political roots of the artist’s passion for silence.

Whatever your view on that question, the avant-garde American composer was hugely influential, as Cage 100, a festival in Victoria marking the 100th year of his birth, attests

John Cage comes to Halberstadt

The largest single archive devoted to influential experimental composer John Cage lives in a library at Northwestern—and it goes a lot deeper than its famous Beatles lyric sheets.

John Cage, legendary composer of experimental sounds and silence, was absolutely fascinated with mushrooms. This little-known legacy consists of his revival of the New York Mycological Society in the 1960s and his extensive fungi collection, now at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A new exhibition opened this week at the Horticultural Society of New York celebrates this overlooked side of his life.

In a world plagued by Muzak, John Cage needed to find a quiet way to make a powerful statement.

This week’s film is John Cage’s I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It.

Music score for Fontana Mix by John Cage, 1958

John Cage is one of the most controversial and important figures in the history of music. He made his mission to redefine how we think about musical composition and performance, creativity, and...