John Cage (1912-1992) was an American composer with an interest in aleatoric music, Zen, indeterminacy, mycology, and many other subjects. Pianist David Tudor became his essential long-term interpreter, premiering the vast majority of his piano and live-electronic works from the early 1950s on; alongside Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff, Cage was a central figure of the “New York School” of composers who gathered informally through the 1950s.
Works in the Library
John Cage COMPOSITION 1958
John Cage's 1958 indeterminate composition, generated from transparent overlays of points, curves, and lines.
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John Cage BOOK 1961
Silence: Lectures and Writings
John Cage's foundational collection on indeterminacy, silence, and the sounds of the world.
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John Cage COMPOSITION 1952
John Cage's 1952–53 tape composition assembled from hundreds of spliced sound fragments organized by chance operations.
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