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 ...

This year, Tommy Cash has recorded a version of "4'33"" by John Cage. The composition is notable for being silent apart from ambient sound, which is intended to contribute to the overall performance. ...

Cage (1912-1992) sought silence in his work, and is best known for composing the soundless work 4′33″; Beethoven (1770-1827), on the other hand, fought silence in his work, continuing to ...

Was John Cage’s famous composition 4’33’’ a social comment on the closeted lives of gay men at the time? Some commentators, including American art historian Jonathan David Katz, believe ...

DJ Detweiler remixed John Cage’s silent composition, 4’33, and then wasn't able to put it on Soundcloud. But there's more to this story than meets the eye.

I suspect John Cage would have been equally pleased to know that a performance of 4’33” at Columbia in 2024 could contain, in addition to the sounds of the HVAC system and students breathing ...

View of an embroidered sheet of music from the piece Organ2/ASLSP by John Cage. Artist Sabine Groschup expands the embroidery with each change of sound. After two years, the sound of the slowest piece ...