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.

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.