John Cage died in 1992 at the age of 79, but both fans and detractors have continued discussing and performing his work.

At a party, John Cage was once overheard saying, “I compose music but mostly I’m a mushroom identifier.” Composing, for Cage, was an act of collecting the detritus of everyday sounds. He foraged for ...

The Best Gig I Ever Saw: Arad Evans of NYC-based avant-rock supergroup The Whimbrels travels back in time to a transporting John Cage/Sun Ra gig. Arad Evans: In 1986, not long in the City, I got into ...

I recently received a lovely book-style box set called FIRST IMPULSE: THE CREED TAYLOR COLLECTION 50 TH ANNIVERSARY. The music contained within was from Impulse Records’ early releases from around ...

The two albums below have plenty in common with one another. Both feature compositions by Americans played by Apartment House, a UK-based ensemble who are featured on Another Timbre often enough to be ...

“Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage,” McWhorter wrote. “His most famous piece is ...

The exhibition begins in silence—four minutes and 33 seconds of it. The musician and theorist John Cage composed the groundbreaking piece 4’33”, which contains no sound, as a response to White ...