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Cage was born September 5, 1912, at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles. ©2020 The Art Story Foundation.

Cage's aesthetic position was criticized by, among others, prominent writer and critic Cage's rhythmic structure experiments and his interest in sound influenced a number of composers, starting at first with his close American associates Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff (and other American composers, such as Cage's influence was also acknowledged by rock acts such as In 2012, amongst a wide range of American and international centennial celebrations,A 2012 project was curated by Juraj Kojs to celebrate the centenary of Cage's birth, titled This article is about the composer. In early 1946 Cage agreed to tutor Gita Sarabhai, an Indian musician who came to the US to study Western music. This was a reflection of my engagement in Zen."

Neo-Dada refers to works of art from the 1950s that employ popular imagery and modern materials, often resulting in something absurd. The cynicism with which this particular departure seems to have been made is perfectly symbolized in John Cage's account of a public lecture he had given: "Later, during the question period, I gave one of six previously prepared answers regardless of the question asked. Arthur Kroker & Marilouise Kroker, NWP Ctheory Books, Victoria, Canada

An important art theorist, he influenced choreographers, musicians, and the Fluxus artists of the 1970s.
"Soon after Cage started writing percussion music and music for modern dance, he started using a technique that placed the rhythmic structure of the piece into the foreground. I said, 'In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

1 (Fall): 50–81.Paul Hegarty, Full With Noise: Theory and Japanese Noise Music, pp. When he said that, I revolted, not against him, but against what he had said. I don't need sound to talk to me.Although Cage had used chance on a few earlier occasions, most notably in the third movement of During this time Cage was also teaching at the avant-garde From 1953 onward, Cage was busy composing music for modern dance, particularly Cunningham's dances (Cage's partner adopted chance too, out of fascination for the movement of the human body), as well as developing new methods of using chance, in a series of works he referred to as Edition Peters soon published a large number of scores by Cage, and this, together with the publication of Cage's work from the sixties features some of his largest and most ambitious, not to mention socially utopian pieces, reflecting the mood of the era yet also his absorption of the writings of both Also in 1969, Cage produced the first fully notated work in years: Another new direction, also taken in 1987, was opera: Cage produced five operas, all sharing the same title In the course of the 1980s, Cage's health worsened progressively. Some important Neo-Dada artists include Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris and Allan Kaprow. American sculptor and painter George Segal is best known for his life-size plaster cast figures, often in monochromatic white.
His father, John Milton Cage Sr. (1886–1964), was an inventor, and his mother, Lucretia ("Crete") Harvey (1881–1968), worked intermittently as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times.

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He also worked with artists such as John Cage and Allan Kaprow at Rutgers University in the 1950s and 60s; Kaprow's famous "happenings" performances first took place on Segal's farm in New Jersey. George Brecht's artworks and musical compositions offered a different edge than the artists of the time and Neo-Dada peers. I have the feeling that sound is acting. The composer was experiencing a growing disillusionment with the idea of music as means of communication: the public rarely accepted his work, and Cage himself, too, had trouble understanding the music of his colleagues. For other uses, see Performed in 1958 by Arline Carmen (voice) and John Cage (closed piano). In return, he asked her to teach him about Indian music and philosophy.Early in 1946, his former teacher Richard Buhlig arranged for Cage to meet Berlin-born pianist In early 1951, Wolff presented Cage with a copy of the When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. 86–98 in Life in the Wires (2004) eds. Cage quoted in Kostelanetz 2003, 1. He also worked with artists such as John Cage and Allan Kaprow at Rutgers University in the 1950s and 60s; Kaprow's famous "happenings" performances first took place on Segal's farm in New Jersey.