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16 unusual facts about John Cage


Alphonse Allais

It predates similarly silent but intellectually serious works by John Cage and Erwin Schulhoff by many years.

Brown Opera Productions

Accompanists are provided, and people are encouraged to sing whatever they want, from Handel to John Cage, Puccini to Gershwin.

Contrafact

More recently, "Cheap Imitation" (1969) by John Cage was produced by systematically changing notes from the melody line of "Socrate" by Erik Satie using chance procedures.

Ed Ricketts

According to his letters, conversations with composer John Cage helped Ricketts clarify some of his thoughts on poetry, and gave him new insight into the emphasis on form over content embraced by many modern artists.

For the Birds

"For the Birds", a book by John Cage and Daniel Charles (Marion Boyars Publishers, 2000), translated from the French Pour les oiseaux (Paris, Belfond, 1976)

London Sinfonietta

In 2006 a collaboration with Warp Records, featuring recordings of the music of Warp Records artists, such as Aphex Twin, as well as modern classical music composers, such as John Cage, was released as Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters.

Nichi nichi kore kōnichi

It was a favorite saying of the avant-garde composer John Cage, featured in Song Books (1970) as Solo for Voice 64.

OGOGO

A significant part of the OGOGO sound is use of "funny instruments" (closely related to prepared piano of John Cage) in addition to the traditional jazz lineup of guitars, saxophones, trumpets, trombones, bass and drums, as well as the theatrical outfits and invited guest artists while performing.

Postmodern philosophy

Postmodern philosophy also drew from the world of the arts and architecture, particularly Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and artists who practiced collage, and the architecture of Las Vegas and the Pompidou Centre.

River East Collegiate

Performing pieces from such prestigious contemporary composers as John Cage and Steve Reich, the "CME" (as it's come to be known) is always prepared to make listeners say: "What the heck was that!?"

S.E.M. Ensemble

The ensemble has performed numerous new works by a wide range of composers, which include Muhal Richard Abrams, John Cage, Roberto Carnevale, Morton Feldman, Pauline Oliveros, Henry Threadgill and La Monte Young, as well as works by Kotik himself.

Smithsonian Folkways

Over the years of Folkways Records, Asch recorded some of the biggest names in music, including Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie, John Cage, and Charles Ives.

This is Not a Book

The assignment "random occurrence" is an homage to Marcel Duchamp, "window" is an homage to Yoko Ono, "chance operation" is an homage to John Cage, "conundrum" and "top secret document" are an homage to Oulipo, "bureaucracy" is an homage to José Saramago and "voyage" is an homage to Bas Jan Ader.

To Sail, to Sail

Frith dedicates each track to some of the important figures in his musical life, including Champion Jack Dupree, John Cage, Terry Riley, Daevid Allen, Barre Phillips and Davey Graham.

Tomato Records

The label has released albums by influential artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lead Belly, Chris Smither, Dave Brubeck, Nina Simone, Harry Partch, John Cage and Albert King.

Unmuzzled OX

The circulation of Unmuzzled OX peaked at 25,000 in the 80s with The Cantos (121-150) Ezra Pound. Regular contributors to Unmuzzled OX included Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, John Cage, Daniel Berrigan, Eugene McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Denise Levertov, Robert Peters, Robert Creeley and Gregory Corso.


1952 in art

August 29 - Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York.

Aki Takahashi

She has released numerous recordings and many 20th-century composers (including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Alvin Lucier, Isang Yun, Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Carl Stone, Maki Ishii, and Takehisa Kosugi) have written pieces for her.

Alexina Duchamp

She maintained a close friendship with many of Duchamp's friends, including Jasper Johns, Richard Hamilton, composer John Cage, Gianfranco Baruchello (artist) and choreographer Merce Cunningham.

André Boucourechliev

Following the success of works such as the Piano Sonata (1959), performed at the Domaine musical, and works involving choice and chance, he spent a period in America during which he encountered avant-garde figures such as Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Rauschenberg.

Anna Halprin

Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Robert Morris, collaborated and built a community based around the fundamentals of post-modern dance.

Arts Club of Chicago

Aside from visual artists, the Club also has hosted lectures and performances from such prominent musicians as John Cage, Philip Glass, Ramsey Lewis and Igor Stravinsky, and poets W. H. Auden, Gertrude Stein and William Butler Yeats.

At Land

The composer John Cage and the poet and film critic Parker Tyler were involved in making the film, and appear in the film, which was shot at Amagansett, Long Island.

Béla Quartet

They were united by their desire both to champion the contemporary repertoire : George Crumb, György Ligeti, Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Kaija Saariaho, Béla Bartók, Steve Reich, Raphaël Cendo, Marco Stroppa, Henri Dutilleux...

Charivari Press

Its recently published and upcoming list of contributors include composers, artists and critical theorists, such as: Hildegard Westerkamp, John Cage, Max Neuhaus, R. Murray Schafer, Alvin Lucier, Douglas Kahn and Richard Kostelanetz.

Cold Dark Matter

300 Year old Tibetan Thigh Bone Trumpet; New Guinea Bamboo Bass Flute; African Tree Trunk Ceremonial Drum; Marcel Duchamp Ready-Made Bicycle Wheel; Burmese Temple Gong; Nepali Temple Bells; Tibetan Singing Bowl; John Cage Prepared Piano; African Gazelle Horn Pipe; Thai Military Bass Drum; Japanese Koto; one "found" and warped audio cassette of Christian Devotional Choir (actually original recordings made at Jonestown, Guyana prior to the mass suicides)

Curved bow

John Cage, Dieter Schnebel, Walter Zimmermann and Hans Zender have written works for the curved bow which explore the new perspectives and potential of it.

Edition Peters

The publishing house’s best known composers of the 20th and 21st century include John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, and Morton Feldman, alongside its contemporary composers Mark Andre, Jonathan Dove, Bernd Franke, Brian Ferneyhough, Anders Hillborg, Rebecca Saunders, Ming Tsao and Erkki-Sven Tüür, to name but a few, as well the New Generation.

Else Torp

She is a member of Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices, with whom she sings ancient and baroque works of composers such as Abelard, Lassus, Tallis, and Schütz as well as contemporary creations such as by Cage, Stockhausen, and Pärt.

Ensemble Alternance

The ensemble is particularly well known for its performances of Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Roberto Carnevale, György Ligeti, George Crumb, Giacinto Scelsi, de Pablo, and Klaus Huber.

Fenwick Smith

Smith has a reputation for playing new works and has notably made numerous premiere recordings of works by composers like Copland, Foote, Gaubert, Ginastera, Koechlin, Dahl, Harbison, Cage, Pinkham, Erwin Schulhoff, Schuller, Schoenberg, Ned Rorem, and Reinecke.

Friedrich Christian Flick Collection

This donation includes works of the last forty years, including main works by artists like Marcel Broodthaers, John Cage, David Claerbout, Stan Douglas, Martin Kippenberger, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, Jason Rhoades, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Gene Tyranny

He has performed on albums by Laurie Anderson (Strange Angels), David Behrman (On the Other Ocean), John Cage (Cheap Imitation and Empty Words), Peter Gordon, and Robert Ashley (Perfect Lives), with whom he frequently collaborates.

Gordon Monahan

Along with his own work, he has performed works by other composers such as John Cage, James Tenney, Udo Kasemets and Roberto Paci Dalò.

Hans Otte

From the early 1960s onwards, Otte frequently presented contemporary experimental American composers in his Bremen radio festival pro musica nova, among them in those days completely unknown people like John Cage, David Tudor, Terry Riley, and Lamonte Young.

Hathut Records

Though initially primarily a jazz label, Hathut (under the patronage of UBS) would later add avant garde classical composers including Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Scelsi and others to its catalogue.

Hilda Morley

At Black Mountain, Wolpe and Morley became close friends with John Cage, David Tudor, Merce Cunningham, Dorothea Rockburne and Robert Rauschenberg, in addition to poets Charles Olson and Robert Creeley.

Jean-Pierre Robert

It is the period of his " Installation art" with the musics of Georges Aperghis and John Cage (in the Georges-Pompidou Center) with his " 1 Double bass - 1 Human " being with the musics of James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giacinto Scelsi, etc.

Kim Jin-hi

Plunged into the American avant-garde music scene, she was invited to the Composer-to-Composer festival in Telluride, Colorado in 1989 and joined the one week residency with John Cage and selected leading composers.

Marie Angel

She sings both operas in the standard repertoire as well as contemporary operas by such composers as Mauricio Kagel, Bruno Maderna, Michael Tippett, Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and John Cage.

Marilyn Crispell

She has also performed and recorded music by contemporary composers John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Cogan, Pozzi Escot, Manfred Niehaus and Anthony Davis (including his opera X with the New York City Opera).

Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble

Emphasis is placed on pieces by modern composers and recent past seasons have featured works by György Ligeti, Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb, John Cage, David Lang, Robert Black and others.

Stephen Drury

Drury has performed and recorded a range of compositions by classical and contemporary composers including Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, Elliott Carter, and John Zorn.

Steve Beresford

British song writer and performer Katy Carr cites Steve Beresford's lectures on musical themes associated with Free improvisation, Experimental music, John Cage, musique concrète, Diamanda Galás and The Slits as a source of initial inspiration with regards to the creation of her debut album, Screwing Lies released in 2001.

Theophilus Brown

Brown, who studied piano at Yale, was also close to a number of composers, including John Cage, Poulenc, Samuel Barber, and Igor Stravinsky.