OK, let's get the elephant out of the room right away. John Cage's most famous, or infamous, work is "4'33"," in which a musician walks onstage and sits at the piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds ...

John Cage: Devoted Play, a smallish show at the AGGV in Victoria, features works by Cage himself (beyond composition he was a visual artist, a poet, a chess player, a mushroom expert etc.), as ...

John Cage began serious music studies in the 1930s, and quickly gravitated to the avant-garde and the idea of composing music through chance. He wanted to release his music from the limits of his ...

As the politics of law and order are poised to determine the future of America, John Cage’s 1950 String Quartet in Four Parts stands as music of the moment.

John Cage foraged for mushrooms with as much dedication as he composed for piano. A new book shows why the great avant-garde musician and artist saw the secret of life in fungi.

John Cage Program Shows Music Forum's Strengths. March 6, 2007. The sounds of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony filled the concert hall, only to be interrupted by the clanging of tin cans.

If people know of John Cage at all, they tend to know of him as a “composer” of a famous, some might say gag-ish, piece of silent music, and as the writer of aesthetic theories about silence.

John Cage, the American avant-garde composer whose convention-defying music infuriated audiences but whose aesthetic ideas exerted a profound impact on world music of the 20th Century, died ...