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John Cage's 4′33″ in MIDI, OGG, Au, and WAV formats. John Cage's 4′33″ from National Public Radio's "The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century" (RealAudio file format) Interview with Kyle Gann about 4′33″ on The Next Track podcast; Apps. John Cage's 4′33″ as an iPhone app, published by the John Cage Trust ...
Silence: Lectures and Writings is a book by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1961 by Wesleyan University Press. Silence is a collection of essays and lectures Cage wrote during the period from 1939 to 1961.
Monotone-Silence Symphony (1949), by Yves Klein; in two movements, a single 20-minute sustained chord followed by a 20-minute silence [7] 4′33″ (1952) by John Cage (1912–1992) silent; in three movements lasting a total of four minutes and 33 seconds, for any instrument or combination of instruments. 4'33" No. 2 (1962) by John Cage
Catalogue at the John Cage Compendium, compiled by Paul van Emmerik, alphabetical; John Cage Chronological Catalog of Music compiled by Larry Solomon, includes an alphabetic list as well; details on individual compositions (some minor errors and omissions) Unrecorded John Cage Works with details on events and a list of lost works
John Cage Database – Worklist, includes a complete catalogue of Cage's music, details and lists of recordings for all pieces. John Cage Complete Works , hosted and developed by the John Cage Trust Rob Haskins: Program and Liner Notes , includes a number of essays on Number Pieces in general, One 4 , One 9 , Two 2 , Two 3 , Two 4 , Four , Four ...
Music for Piano is a series of 85 indeterminate musical compositions for piano by American avant-garde composer John Cage. All of these works were composed by making paper imperfections into sounds using various kinds of chance operations. [1]
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.
Cage began writing the quartet in 1949 in Paris. Prior to beginning to work on the piece, he told his parents that he wanted to compose a work which would praise silence without actually using it; after completing the first movement he was so fascinated with the new way to work that he wrote in a letter: "This piece is like the opening of another door; the possibilities implied are unlimited."