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2 days ago · 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.
2 days ago · John Cage inserting screws, silverware, and other objects into the piano to distort its sound. The early 20th century, represented by Puccini’s Turandot, epitomized the classical aesthetic of the Enlightenment, characterized by grandeur, emotional depth, and rich innovations in colorful orchestration. Puccini’s work thrived within a ...
Jun 29, 2024 · I made a six-hour playlist, amid which was a composition by John Cage which suited the heightened, vulnerable, life-changing moment of the arrival of a child. Years on, I remind myself of my grandmother's comments and how her youthful curiosity helped inspire my relationship with music.
Jul 4, 2024 · American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist John Cage died on this day in 1992, aged 79. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage is remembered as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century.
Jul 16, 2024 · The titular shock of this series is delivered even more forcefully with the next piece, John Cage's 26'55.988" for 2 Pianists and a String Player (1961), which was first performed the year before in Darmstadt by Tudor and Kenji Kobayashi, a combination of two of Cage's solo pieces.
5 days ago · John Cage offered these insights about the work and audience reception after the [1952] premiere [near Woodstock, New York]: "There's no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn't know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement.
2 days ago · Prepared piano. A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between the strings. Its invention is usually traced to John Cage 's dance music for Bacchanale (1940), created for a performance in a Seattle venue that lacked sufficient space for ...
