Gerard fremy john cage biography

John Cage (b. 1912, Los Angeles – d. 1992, New York NY) was an influential avant-garde composer and theoretician who contributed to the development of minimalism, chance operations, and indeterminacy in postwar aesthetics.

His influence extends across the fields of electronic music, the visual arts, performance, and modern dance and choreography. He briefly studied at Pomona College before moving to New York City to pursue more informal studies with composers Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg.

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By 1939 he had begun to experiment with increasingly unorthodox instruments such as the “prepared piano,” tape recorders, record players, and radios in his effort to step outside the bounds of conventional Western music and its concepts of meaningful sound.

The concert he gave with his percussion ensemble at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1943 marked the first step in his emergence as a leader of the American musical avant-garde. In the following years, Zen Budd