Cage, John (Milton)

(1912–92) composer; born in Los Angeles. Cage studied with a number of teachers including Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg, who helped provoke his avant-garde proclivities. He began writing all-percussion pieces in the 1930s and proclaimed the use of noise as the next musical horizon; in 1938 he introduced the "prepared piano," an instrument whose sound is radically modified by various objects placed on the strings. While writing much for prepared piano in the 1940s, notably the Sonatas and Interludes, he also produced some pioneering electronic music. Among the most widely influential elements of his thought was the idea of indeterminacy, music that is not strictly controlled, as seen in his 1951 Landscape No. 4 for twelve radios—the sound of which depends on what happens to be on the air. Later works, especially the notorious 4'33" (1954), involve complete silence. He continued to develop such concepts and he also produced several quirky, engaging books beginning with the 1961 Silence. In his later years he was widely acclaimed as one of the more original of American artists.

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Grutman of the New York based office of Davis & Grutman, the latter of whom financially and legally kept watch over what originally was informally called the Cage estate, and which was formalized as the John Cage Trust in 1993.

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Suzuki, progressing in the second part to the composer John Cage. She chronicles the creation and impact of Cage's major works, his influence as a teacher at Black Mountain College, and his collaborations with and influence on such artists as Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Allen Kaprow, and Alison Knowles.

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Bangor University's New Music Ensemble joins Head of Performance pianist Xenia Pestova in a John Cage Tribute Concert.

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Kass, a painter, writer, emeritus professor of Studio Art at Virginia Tech, and Founder and Director of the Mountain Lake Workshop, an ongoing series of community-based collaborative art projects gathers, in sequence, the full collection of 125 watercolors produced by musician and artist John Cage at the Mountain Lake Workshop.

The sight of silence; John Cage's complete watercolors. (DVD included)

His rendition incorporated a sensitive and skilled synthesis of music, sounds and silence presented in a fragmented and sparse manner that can be allied in some ways with the aesthetic of American composer John Cage (1912-1992).

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The bulk of what is an impressively comprehensive showcase is across the dock at the Tate, however, telling the story of Paik's transformation from musical scholar to media art pioneer via an exploration of his part in the Fluxus movement alongside Stockhausen and John Cage.

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