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4′33″. 4′33″[a] is a modernist composition [b] by American experimental composer John Cage. It was composed in 1952 for any instrument or combination of instruments; the score instructs performers not to play their instruments throughout the three movements. It is divided into three movements, [c] lasting 30 seconds, two minutes and 23 ...
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of ...
Credo in Us, for four performers with various objects (1942) And The Earth Shall Bear Again, for prepared piano (1942) The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, for voice and closed piano (1942) Primitive, for prepared piano (1942) In the Name of the Holocaust, for prepared piano (1942) Ad lib, for piano (1943)
The Seasons (Cage) Six Melodies (Cage) Sonata for Clarinet (Cage) Sonatas and Interludes. Song Books (Cage) String Quartet in Four Parts.
12 radios. Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (March No. 2) is a composition for 24 performers on 12 radios and conductor by American composer John Cage and the fourth in the series of Imaginary Landscapes. It is the first installment not to include any percussion instrument at all and Cage's first composition to be based fully on chance operations.
As Slow as Possible. ORGAN2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of the second-longest-lasting (after Longplayer) musical performance yet undertaken. [1] Cage wrote it in 1987 for organ, as an adaptation of his 1985 composition ASLSP for piano. A performance of the piano version usually lasts 20 to 70 minutes.
Music of Changes is a piece for solo piano by John Cage. Composed in 1951 for pianist and friend David Tudor, it is a ground-breaking piece of indeterminate music. The process of composition involved applying decisions made using the I Ching, a Chinese classic text that is commonly used as a divination system.
The 20-minute color film, produced and narrated by Meredith (narration by John Latouche) and photographed and directed by Matter, [31] was completed in 1949, but since Matter insisted on asking Cage to compose the music, the team had to wait for about a year until Cage returned from Europe. [30]