Who is John Cage?
Composer John Cage was originally from Los Angeles in California in 1912. After a short attending Pomon College for a while visited Europe and returned to the US in 1931 to study music in 1931. Schoenberg's approach. He found a job as a teacher himself in Seattle and founded drum sets in 1936–1938 to have artists for his works. At the same time, Merce Cunningham - a school boyfriend, dancer and Cage's friend - eliminated cooperation.
By 1939, Cage experimented with new compositional approaches, including one called "prepared piano", which includes inserting objects into the piano or otherwise modify it to produce sounds that are not characteristic of the instrument. He also added tape recorders, radios and players to Cage, in addition to traditional acoustic. His first recorded performance was a percussion ensemble Concert inNew York Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in 1943.
Cage's interest in Eastern philosophy, such as Zen Buddhism, which appeared in the coming years, came to influence his music. He continued to blur the abyss between music and other types of sound and created the schemes of the introduction of random and random elements into a musical performance. This had the effect of changes in the role of the artist and the production of absolutely unique. Some of the performance elements were left to the artists to decide on the spot, such as playgrounds, techniques, and the duration of the note, while others could be determined by an external source, such as and ching . Over time, Cage added another media to the music performance, but this media also had random or random elements, as in his work hpschd since 1969.
John Cage's work, which may be best known, is his work from 1952 4 '33 ″ ET for three seconds "in which he has three movements of silence. He also wrote pieces that owe inspiration to other artists such as cheap imitation , a piece of 1969, which aims to give the impression of composer Erik Satie and roaratorio , the name of the electronic composition that includes the words of 1939 Irrish James Joyce.