Updated: July 28, 2009 By Allan Kozinn John Cage was a prolific and influential composer whose work influenced the Minimalist movement in art and music. He died on Aug. 12, 1992.

A Japanese-born multimedia artist whose associates included John Cage and Yoko Ono, he pushed digital music past its breaking point. By Alex Williams Yasunao Tone, an experimental composer and ...

In John Cage's approach to composition, whether in performance or the visual arts, the role of the artist was not to dictate the outcome of a work, but to give space for the influence of chance.

A John Cage piece for organ titled ASLSP — as slow as possible — lives up to its name. It has been in performance for 21 years so far.

It was largely through my contact with John Cage that I came to recognize the value of my own tradition.” As Yang emphasizes, the meeting of Cage and Japan did not begin with his arrival in 1962.

The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits.

Composed by avant-garde artist John Cage, the piece is expected to play in Germany until the year 2640. BBC Homepage. ... American composer John Cage, who died in 1992, ...