John Cage
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 John Cage at the Cabrillo Music Festival, 1977, photographed by Betty Freeman. | |
| Born | September 5, 1912 |
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| Died | August 12, 1992 (aged 79) |
| Web | UbuWeb Sound, Aaaaarg, Wikipedia, Open Library, Using "Academia.edu" as base chain is not permitted during the annotation process. |
John Milton Cage, Jr. (1912–1992) 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.
Contents
Recordings
Films
Writings
- Silence: Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan University Press, 1961, Log, ARG, IA.
- A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan University Press, 1969, Log, ARG, OL.
- Notations, New York: Something Else Press, 1969, Log, ARG.
- Song Books (Solos for Voice 3-92), 3 vols., New York: Henmar Press, 1970, Log.
- M: Writings ’67-’72, Wesleyan University Press, 1973, 217 pp, Log, ARG.
- Empty Words: Writings ’73-’78, Wesleyan University Press, 1979, 187 pp, Log, ARG.
- X: Writings ’78-’82, Wesleyan University Press, 1983, 187 pp, Log, ARG.
Catalogues
- Scores and Prints, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1982, 6 pp, IA.
Interviews
- Richard Kostelanetz, Conversing with Cage, Routledge, 1987; 2nd ed., 2003, Log.
- Richard Kostelanetz, "His Own Music: Ur-Conversation with John Cage", Perspectives of New Music 25:1/2 (Winter-Summer 1987), pp 88-106, & 26:1 (Winter 1988), pp 26-49, ARG/1, ARG/2.
- with Joan Retallack, Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music, Wesleyan University Press, 1996, Log, ARG.
- Peter Dickinson (ed.), CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage, University of Rochester Press, 2006, Log, ARG.
Documentaries
- John Cage: From Zero, dir. Andrew Culver and Frank Scheffer, 85 min, 1995, YouTube.
- In The Ocean, dir. Frank Scheffer, 54 min, 2001, YouTube.
Literature
- Barbara Rose, Not wanting to say anything about Marcel [1970], Milan: Galleria Schwarz, 1971, 4 pp, JPGs. (in Italian/French/English)
- Michael Nyman, Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond, New York: Schirmer Books, 1974, 154 pp; 2nd ed., intro. Brian Eno, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 196 pp, Log.
- William Fetterman, John Cage's Theatre Pieces: Notations and Performances, Harwood Academic, 1996; Routledge, 2010, PDF.
- David W. Bernstein, Christopher Hatch (eds.), Writings through John Cage's Music, Poetry, and Art, University of Chicago Press, 2001, 310 pp, PDF.
- Kenneth Silverman, Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, EPUB.
