1. John Cage - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia 10 The family s roots were completely American in a 1976 interview Cage mentioned a John Cage who helped George Washington in the surveying of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage

John Cage From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For the Ally McBeal character, see John Cage (character) For the Mortal Kombat character, see Johnny Cage John Cage. John Milton Cage Jr. September 5 August 12 ) was an American composer . A pioneer of chance music electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments , Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde and, in the opinion of many, the most influential American composer 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 the most part of the latter's life. Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition , the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played. Although in fact consists of the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, it is frequently erroneously perceived as four minutes, thirty three seconds of silence and has become one of the most controversial compositions of the century. Another famous creation of Cage's is the

2. John Cage JOHN CAGE was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 Cage composed the http://www.lovely.com/bios/cage.html

John Cage JOHN CAGE was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 Cage composed the first prepared piano piece, Bacchanale , for a dance by Syvilla Fort. In 1951, he organized a group of musicians and engineers to make the first music on magnetic tape. In 1952, at Black Mountain College, he presented a theatrical event considered by many to have been the first Happening. In 1958, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Emile de Antonio organized a 25-year retrospective concert of his music at Town Hall in New York. He is musical advisor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, having been associated with Merce Cunningham since 1943. In 1949 Cage received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters for having extended the boundaries of music through his work with percussion orchestra and his invention of the prepared piano. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978, and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1988. In 1982 the French Legion d'Honneur made Cage a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He received the Notable Achievement award from Brandeis University in 1983. He received the degree Doctorate of All the Arts Honoris Causa from the California Institute of the Arts in 1986. Cage was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University for the 1988-89 academic year. He is a laureate of the 1989 Kyoto Prize given by the Inamori Foundation.

3. John Cage - Wikiquote Notes many of Cage s works are unfinished in the traditional sense, only becoming complete when performed (often as a result of leaving certain elements http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Cage

John Cage From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search John Milton Cage composer Contents Sourced About Cage Attributed External Links ... edit Sourced "A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection." ( Source: Forerunners of Modern Music , first published in the New York journal A Tiger's Eye , later collected in Silence Notes: many of Cage's works are "unfinished" in the traditional sense, only becoming complete when performed (often as a result of leaving certain elements to chance). "Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?" Source: "Communication", the third of the Composition as a Process lectures given in Darmstadt in 1958 and published in Silence Notes: many of Cage's works use sounds traditionally regarded as unmusical (radios not tuned to any particular station, for instance): he really did believe that the sound of a truck and the sounds made in a factory had just as much musical worth as the sounds made in a music school. There is also a suggestion expressed in the quote that in order to determine the artistic worth of something, it is necessary to examine the context in which it exists. "A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any considerationit is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself."

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Create Account Log In Help Search all Artists Labels Releases Unmoderated Releases Catalog# Releases For Sale Browse: Artists Labels Home Marketplace ... Groups Shopping 101 for sale Search for this at: Amazon.com .uk .de eBay ... more images John Cage artists (J) Profile: John Cage is born at Los Angeles (5 September 1912) and died at New York (12 August 1992). He left Pomona College early to travel in Europe (1930-31), then studied with Cowell in New York (1933-4) and Sch¶nberg in Los Angeles (1934): his first published compositions, in a rigorous atonal system of his own, date from this period. In 1937 he moved to Seattle to work as a dance accompanist, and there in 1938 he founded a percussion orchestra; his music now concerned with filling units of time with ostinatos (First Construction in Metal, 1939). He also began to use electronic devices (variable-speed turntables in lmaginary Landscape n.1, 1939) and invented the 'prepared piano', placing diverse objects between the strings of a grand piano in order to create an effective percussion orchestra under the control of two hands. He moved to San Francisco in 1939, to Chicago in 1941 and back to New York in 1942, all the time writing music for dance companies (notably for Merce Cunningham), nearly always for prepared piano or percussion ensemble.

5. John Cage --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on John Cage American avantgarde composer whose inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9018542/John-Cage

var britAdCategory = "music"; Already a member? LOGIN Encyclopædia Britannica - the Online Encyclopedia Home Blog Advocacy Board ... Free Trial Britannica Online Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Additional Reading Print this Table of Contents Shopping New! Britannica Book of the Year The Ultimate Review of 2007. 2007 Britannica Encyclopedia Set (32-Volume Set) Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. New! Britannica 2008 Ultimate DVD/CD-ROM The world's premier software reference source. John Cage Page 1 of 1 born September 5, 1912, Los Angeles, California, U.S. died August 12, 1992, New York, New York John Cage in performance on January 1, 1961, seated at a child-sized piano. Ben Martin/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images in full John Milton Cage, Jr. American avant-garde composer whose inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music. The son of an inventor, Cage briefly attended Pomona College and then traveled in Europe for a time. Returning to the United States in 1931, he studied music with Richard Buhlig, Cage, John...

6. John Cage@Everything2.com Two John Cage items His estate did recently win a 6figure settlement over silence, and his As Slow As Possible is being perfomed over 639 years. http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=JOHN CAGE

7. John Cage - Wikipedia Translate this page Die Beschäftigung mit der Musik von Erik Satie und den Schriften von Henry David Thoreau und James Joyce führte John Cage zur Entwicklung einer eigenen Form http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage

John Cage aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche John Milton Cage Jr. 5. September in Los Angeles 12. August in New York City ) war ein US-amerikanischer Komponist und K¼nstler. Mit seinen mehr als 250 Kompositionen, die h¤ufig als Schl¼sselwerke der Neuen Musik angesehen werden, gilt er als einer der weltweit einflussreichsten Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Hinzu kommen musik- und kompositionstheoretische Arbeiten von grunds¤tzlicher Bedeutung. AuŸerdem gilt Cage als Schl¼sselfigur f¼r die Ende der 1950er Jahre entstehende Happeningkunst und als wichtiger Anreger f¼r die Fluxusbewegung und die Neue Improvisationsmusik . Neben seinem kompositorischen Schaffen bet¤tigte er sich auch als Maler Inhaltsverzeichnis Leben Werke Nummernst¼cke Opern ... Bearbeiten Leben Cage studierte zun¤chst Literatur, ging 1930 nach Europa und unternahm erste Versuche im Malen und Komponieren. Zur¼ckgekehrt nach Amerika, heiratete er Anfang der 1930er Jahre Xenia Kashevaroff und begann sein Kompositionsstudium u.a. bei Arnold Sch¶nberg. 1938 zog Cage nach Seattle und baute sein erstes Schlagzeugensemble auf. Kurze Zeit sp¤ter entstand als Begleitung f¼r eine

8. John Cage Listing with New Albion Records includes photograph, autobiography, annotated discography, archives of the Silence mailing list, and announcement of a 1995 http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/

Portrait by Susan Schwartzenberg/The Exploratorium Autobiographical Statement Discography Archives of Silence Here Comes Everybody ... New Albion Records / 584 Castro St #525, San Francisco, CA 94114 / ergo@newalbion.com

9. John Cage Biography from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music. Includes pictures. http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/cage.html

Epoch: Since 1945 Country: USA John Cage (1912-1992) Detailed Information about Picture Gallery List of Works Bibliography Introduction (born Los Angeles, 5 September 1912; died New York, 12 August 1992). He left Pomona College early to travel in Europe (1930-31), then studied with Cowell in New York (1933-4) and in Los Angeles (1934): his first published compositions, in a rigorous atonal system of his own, date from this period. In 1937 he moved to Seattle to work as a dance accompanist, and there in 1938 he founded a percussion orchestra; his music now concerned with filling units of time with ostinatos ( First Construction (in Metal) , 1939). He also began to use electronic devices (variable-speed turntables in lmaginary Landscape no.1 , 1939) and invented the 'prepared piano', placing diverse objects between the strings of a grand piano in order to create an effective percussion orchestra under the control of two hands. He moved to San Francisco in 1939, to Chicago in 1941 and back to New York in 1942, all the time writing music for dance companies (notably for Merce Cunningham), nearly always for prepared piano or percussion ensemble. There were also major concert works for the new instrument: A Book of Music (1944) and Three Dances (1945) for two prepared pianos, and the Sonatas and Interludes (1948) for one.

10. John Cage Database Discography, worklist and other information on American composer john cage. http://www.johncage.info/

JOHN CAGE database This website is dedicated to the American artist John Cage (1912-1992) The site currently contains the following items: Complete discography Catalog of Cage's music Cage - Cunningham collaborations Literature index compiled from various books ... Silence - the John Cage discussion list For information, corrections, additions etc.: Amsterdam, the Netherlands john.cage@orange.nl Hungaroton shop, East Berlin, summer 1990

11. EPC/John Cage Home Page john cage s Books, published by Wesleyan University Press. Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/cage/

John Cage Photo Credit: http://www.libertynet.org/relache/cage.htm Online Works Writings Indeterminacy John Cage: An Autobiographical Statement John Cage Quotations Biographical Entries: Lovely Music Catalog BBC Profiles PBS American Masters Page Classical Music Home Page Sound Files: John Cage sound files at UbuWeb Joan Retallack on Gertrude Stein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John cage (Kelly Writers House) John Cage's Books, published by Wesleyan University Press: 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 from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Silence Lectures and Writings (1939 A Year from Monday New Lectures and Writings M Empty Words X Writings ’79–’82 I-VI Norton Lecture Series at Harvard 1988-89 Anarchy MusiCage John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack Also of interest: Conversing with Cage About the Author: The John Cage Database SILENCE: The John Cage Discussion List The Sounds of Silence: John Cage and 4'33"

12. American Masters . John Cage | PBS The piece 4 33 written by john cage, is possibly the most famous and imortant piece in twentieth century avantgarde. 4 33 was a distillation of years http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/cage_j.html

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); I n 1952, David Tudor sat down in front of a piano for four minutes and thirty-three seconds and did nothing. The piece 4'33'' written by John Cage, is possibly the most famous and imortant piece in twentieth century avant-garde. 4'33'' was a distillation of years of working with found sound, noise, and alternative instruments. In one short piece, Cage broke from the history of classical composition and proposed that the primary act of musical performance was not making music, but listening. Merce Cunningham and the painter Robert Rauschenberg A bit of Zen philosophy from John Cage. Black Mountain College , Cage began to create sound for performances and to investigate the ways music composed through chance procedures could become something beautiful. Many of Cage's ideas about what music could be were inspired by Marcel Duchamp , who revolutionized twentieth-century art by presenting everyday, unadulterated objects in museum settings as finished works of art, which were called "found art," or ready-mades by later scholars. Like Duchamp, Cage found music around him and did not necessarily rely on expressing something from within.

13. UbuWeb Sound :: John Cage From the album john cage Meets Sun Ra, Meltdown MPA1 (1987). Alternates performances by Sun Ra-Yamaha DX-7; and john cage-voc. Sideshows by the Sea, http://www.ubu.com/sound/cage.html

UbuWeb Sound UbuWeb John Cage Full Albums Norton Lectures (1988-89) Mureau (1972) A Dip in the Lake Various Tracks Mushroom Haiku, excerpt from Silence (1972/69) excerpt from Silence (1969) Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake, (1978) Song, Derived from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1976) ... 26'1.1499" For a String Player by John Cage. Played by Charlotte Moorman. Short version from unique lacquer disc. NOTES 1. From the LP Dial-A-Poem Poets (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1972) 2. From the LP Dial-A-Poem Poets: Disconnected (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1974) 3. From the LP Dial-A-Poem Poets: Nova Convention (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1978) 4. From the LP Dial-A-Poem Poets: Totally Corrupt (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1976) 5. From the LP Dial-A-Poem Poets: Biting off the Tongue of a Corpse (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1975) 6-7. From the album: J ohn Cage Meets Sun Ra , Meltdown MPA-1 (1987). Alternates performances by Sun Ra-Yamaha DX-7; and John Cage-voc. Sideshows by the Sea, Coney Island, NY, 6/8/86. [Album jacket plus Andrejko] Sideshows by the Sea was the last surviving freak show along the Coney Island boardwalk. Ra and Cage's appearance was duly announced by the barker outside. Other portions of this concert, which included Pharaoh Abdullah processing and dancing, and Ra and Cage performing together, may have been recorded but haven't been issued.

14. John Cage Sayings Words come first from here and then from there. The situation is not linear. It is as though I am in a forest hunting for ideas. john cage http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/cage-quotes.html

(This course is being offered on line in September 1999.) John Cage quotations "I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I needed it" John Cage "It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music. Yes, but how? I gave up making choices. In their place I put the asking of questions. The answers come from the mechanism, not the wisdom of the I Ching, the most ancient of all books: tossing three coins six times yielding numbers between 1 and 64." John Cage, 1990 "I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.' " John Cage

15. John Cage . Indeterminacy An archive of john cage s oneminute stories from Indeterminacy new aspect of form in instrumental and electronic music. http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/

I N D E T E R M I N A C Y new aspect of form in instrumental and electronic music J O H N C A G E Stories Help/About Index of names Index of first lines ... Index of last lines

16. Malcolm's John Cage Page: Cage On The Internet late 2005 after sitting with no updates for about 7 years. john Ronsen offers this list of john cage info which is a much better and more current reference. http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/cage/

Note: These pages have been removed in late 2005 after sitting with no updates for about 7 years. John Ronsen offers this list of John Cage info which is a much better and more current reference.

17. John Cage In an autobiographical statement john cage wrote My favorite music is the music I haven t yet heard. I don t hear the music I write I write in order to http://www.wwnorton.com/college/music/enj9/shorter/composers/cage.htm

John Cage Born: September 5, 1912, Los Angeles, California Died: August 12, 1992, New York Biography Works Links Twentieth Century Composer Index American composer, performer, graphic artist, poet, and writer. Expert on edible mushrooms and cofounder of the New York Mycological Society. In an autobiographical statement John Cage wrote "My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard." This desire to find new sounds and to abandon the traditional role of the composer as a controlling authority were hallmarks of John Cage's career and made him at once a revered and reviled figure in modern music. Cage was the son of an inventor, and he had an unremarkable and generally unmusical childhood. He attended two years of college, then left to travel in Europe. When he returned to the United States, he began serious study, first with Henry Cowell and then with Arnold Schoenberg. He began writing in his own musical system, often using techniques similar to those of Schoenberg. In 1937 he moved to Seattle and took a job accompanying a dance company. From this he began to view music as segments of time to be filled with sounds. During this period his music is marked by strict, mathematically devised proportions of time. He filled these segments with new sounds, including different objects used as percussion (brake drums, for example), electronic sounds, and prepared piano (a piano with objects placed between the strings to modify pitch and timbre).

18. John Cage One of the most celebrated and iconoclastic figures of the American musical avantgarde, john cage has been instrumental in reshaping postwar Western music. http://www.eai.org/eai/artist.jsp?artistID=421

19. John Cage Biography. Download Classical Music By John Cage john cage (1912 1992) Classical music and classical hit collection. Compilations of john cage classics and listen to its finest classical music john cage http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio25916.htm

The World's Leading Classical Music Label Naxos Worldwide Sites: Choose Country Global Site Australia Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Hong Kong Japan Korea New Zealand Norway Sweden UK USA E-mail Password New Releases Artists Composers Labels ... C CAGE, JOHN BIOGRAPHY A leading American avant-garde musician, John Cage won notoriety for his famous silent work, 4'33", for any instrument or instruments. Equally controversial was 0'0", ten years later, performed by the composer and consisting of the slicing of vegetables, then put into a blender, with the performer concluding by drinking the juice. Cage has had a considerable influence on younger composers, with his use of chance and indeterminacy, electronic techniques and every possible experimental device, whether musical or dramatic. He combined his interest in music with considerable knowledge of mushrooms and a fondness for bridge and other card and board games. Compositions Cage's compositions are not easily classified. His early use of percussion was a natural corollary of his work with dance groups. Devices used included the prepared piano, pioneered in his 1938 Bacchanale, and followed by a number of other compositions in which various objects are inserted into the piano to create different effects, largely percussive in quality. An interest in Zen and the I Ching resulted in Music of Changes, where chance dictated the choice of notes. Dramatic actions dominate Water Music, for a pianist, who must empty pots of water and perform other feats, while later music makes considerable use of tapes or calls for undetermined forces.

20. WFMU's Beware Of The Blog: John Cage On A TV Game Show In 1960 (video) john cage performs using Water Pitcher, Iron Pipe, Goose Call and a slew of other musical implements in 1960 on the game show Ive Got a Secret video at http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/04/john_cage_on_a_.html

WFMU's Beware of the Blog advanced Blather: Categories 365 Days Project Amanda's Posts Archie Club News ... William Berger's Posts Recent Posts Panda Guts David Lee Roth Vocals and NWA in high school Album Art Extended Mark Schubert - Jagged and Bloated Assemblages ... Billy Jam's Top 10 of 2007 (belated) Listen! Live MP3 Stream - Broadband Live Windows Stream - Dialup Live Realaudio Stream - Dialup Live MP3 Stream - Dialup ... Main April 28, 2007 John Cage on a TV Game Show in 1960 (video) Here's John Cage performing Water Walk in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret At the time, Cage was teaching Experimental Composition at New York City's New School. Eight years beyond 4:33, he was (as our smoking MC informs us) the most controversial figure in the musical world at that time. His first performance on national television was originally scored to include five radios, but a union dispute on the CBS set prevented any of the radios from being plugged in to the wall. Cage gleefully smacks and tosses the radios instead of turning them on and off. While treating Cage as something of a freak, the show also treats him fairly reverentially, cancelling the regular game show format to allow Cage the chance to perform his entire piece.

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