Washington offers an 8-day festival celebrating the centennial of John Cage, the polymathic artist — but can it dispel the idea that his compositions are less important than his philosophy?

John Cage's silent musical composition 4'33" is the most revolutionary work - in any medium - of the 20th century. Recent and upcoming exhibitions at HMKV in Dortmund Germany and the Berkeley Art ...

Silence And Sound: Five Ways Of ... John Cage read 90 of his own tales — "autobiographical fragments," he called them; some funny, some melancholic — out loud in random order.

LONDON (Reuters) - American avant-garde composer John Cage staged one of the world's first "happenings", used a remote-controlled blimp in one of his operas and turned a piano into a percussion ...

John Cage and Yoko Ono performing Cage’s “Music Walk” in Tokyo in 1962, ... For the premiere of “0’00,” a follow-up silence exercise to “4’33,” Cage sat at a desk and wrote a ...

“The world is teeming,” wrote John Cage in one of his essays on silence. “Anything can happen.” He could have been talking about the room where I spend most of my time. If there’s one ...

The instrument has been playing composer John Cage's "ASLSP" since 2001—and it's scheduled to conclude in 2640. ... and the silence should have lasted 28 months.

John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. ... Cage’s conception of silence, though heavily and often debated, went beyond the idea of serene nothingness.