John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (5 September 1912 – 12 August 1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. 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.

Recordings

• On Ubuweb

Films

• Films with Cage on UbuWeb

Writings

• Silence: Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan University Press, 1961. [1]
• A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan University Press, 1969.
• Notations, New York: Something Else Press, 1969.
• Song Books (Solos for Voice 3-92), 3 vols., New York: Henmar Press, 1970.
• M: Writings ’67-’72, Wesleyan University Press, 1973, 217 pp.
• Empty Words: Writings ’73-’78, Wesleyan University Press, 1979, 187 pp.
• X: Writings ’78-’82, Wesleyan University Press, 1983, 187 pp.

Catalogues

• Scores and Prints, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1982, 6 pp.

Interviews

• Richard Kostelanetz, Conversing with Cage, Routledge, 1987; 2nd ed., 2003.
• with Joan Retallack, Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music, Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
• Peter Dickinson (ed.), CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage, University of Rochester Press, 2006.

Literature

• Barbara Rose, Not wanting to say anything about Marcel [1970], Milan: Galleria Schwarz, 1971, 4 pp. (in Italian/French/English)
• Michael Nyman, Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, 1974; 2nd ed., 1999.
• William Fetterman, John Cage's Theatre Pieces. Notations and Performances.pdf, Harwood Academic, 1996; Routledge, 2010.
• David W. Bernstein, ; Christopher Hatch (eds.), Writings through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art, University of Chicago Press, 2001, 310 pp.
• Kenneth Silverman, Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Links

• http://johncage.org
• http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/
• http://exhibitions.nypl.org/johncage/
• http://cagecomp.home.xs4all.nl/