MicroFest Records. John Cage meets Ant & Dec in the sitcom in my mind | Stewart Lee. At the moment, I am trying to avoid thinking about John Cage. And instead, I find myself thinking about Ant & Dec. In 2009, the musicians Steve Beresford and Tania Chen asked me to supply the spoken part for a performance of Indeterminacy, by the postwar avant-garde giant John Cage. My shelves creak with music, but I didn't know any Cage, beyond Sonic Youth's interpretation of his piece Six on their Goodbye 20th Century album.
As ever, I access the Temple of Culture by the tradesmen's entrance. Highbrow musicologists would scoff at this lowbrow lead in to Cage's oeuvre. Cage's Indeterminacy is currently available as a cardboard box of 90 cards of 90 stories of different lengths, and a leaflet of instructions: "Read the stories aloud, with or without accompaniment, paced so that each takes one minute. Indeterminacy's instructions advise reading "conversationally, naturally, and neutrally. None of this was remotely helpful. John Cage: Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947) - it does not follow. In a Landscape. John Cage and the NY School. John Cage: "Mushroom Haiku" and "At the Middle"
John Cage at KPFA on July 29, 1971. Source Program No. 3: The first lecture in John Cage’s class on “Music in Dialogue” Source Program No. 7: John Cage on Mushrooms. John Cage. Not to be confused with John Cale. John Cage Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4′33″, which is performed in the absence of deliberate sound; musicians who present the work do nothing aside from being present for the duration specified by the title. The content of the composition is not "four minutes and 33 seconds of silence," as is sometimes assumed, but rather the sounds of the environment heard by the audience during performance.[7][8] The work's challenge to assumed definitions about musicianship and musical experience made it a popular and controversial topic both in musicology and the broader aesthetics of art and performance.
Cage was also a pioneer of the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by objects placed between or on its strings or hammers), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces. Life[edit] 1912–31: Early years[edit] Cage enrolled at Pomona College in Claremont as a theology major in 1928. John Cage Quotes.