Pierre Boulez – conductor, composer and provocative musical thinker – will be celebrated during his centenary year with a host of events.

Critic Ann Powers considers musical performances that have left audiences stunned in utter silence, and what you can hear ...

The obvious inspiration is “4’33”, John Cage’s note-free composition. Indeed, it might seem a bit rich of 1,000 UK Artists to complain about their rights being abrogated while glomming ...

In the US, the Authors Guild and 17 individual authors, including Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen, are pursuing a more traditional American form of protest by suing OpenAI and Microsoft for ...

The art of silence has played an important role in music history. In 1952, the American experimental composer John Cage famously wrote a work of ‘silence’ titled 4’33”, which consists of four minutes ...

"Ryoji Ikeda: data-verse" offers an immersive sound and visual experience like none other at the High Museum of Art.

Twombly was best friends with John Cage, the composer of 4’33” and other ego-emptying artworks. As Cage put it, ‘something has to be done to get us free of our memories and choices.’ What Cage did was ...