At a party, John Cage was once overheard saying, “I compose music but mostly I’m a mushroom identifier.” Composing, for Cage, was an act of collecting the detritus of everyday sounds. He foraged for ...
The Best Gig I Ever Saw: Arad Evans of NYC-based avant-rock supergroup The Whimbrels travels back in time to a transporting John Cage/Sun Ra gig. Arad Evans: In 1986, not long in the City, I got into ...
The exhibition begins in silence—four minutes and 33 seconds of it. The musician and theorist John Cage composed the groundbreaking piece 4’33”, which contains no sound, as a response to White ...
“Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage,” McWhorter wrote. “His most famous piece is ...
John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...
Taught about mushrooms at the New York School for Social Research. This same year he founded the New York Mycological Society March 13, "John Cage: String Quartet in Four Parts and works by Feldman, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An interview of John Cage conducted 1974 May 2, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Cage speaks of his education; studying art and ...