John Cage

John Cage
Date personale
Născut	5 septembrie 1912 Los Angeles, California, SUA
Decedat	12 august 1992 (79 de ani) New York City, New York, SUA
Cauza decesului	cauze naturale (accident vascular cerebral)
Părinți	Crete Cage[*][[Crete Cage (American journalist and clubwoman (1881-1968))|​]]
Căsătorit cu	Xenia Cage[*][[Xenia Cage (pictoriță americană)|​]] (1935–1945)
Cetățenie	Statele Unite ale Americii
Religie	Zen
Ocupație	compozitor scriitor poet cadru didactic universitar[*]​ muzicolog[*]​ filozof pictor teoretician al muzicii[*]​ ilustrator[*]​ desenator[*]​ micolog[*]​ artist vizual[*]​
Locul desfășurării activității	Europa (1930–1931) New York City
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză
Alte nume	Cage, Jr., John Milton
Studii	University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles High School[*][[Los Angeles High School (public magnet secondary school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., founded in 1873)|​]]
Gen muzical	aleatoric music[*][[aleatoric music (music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s))|​]] operă muzică clasică muzică electronică Muzică experimentală musique concrète[*][[musique concrète (form of electroacoustic music)|​]] Muzica de avantgardă artă interpretativă[*]​ muzica clasică din secolul al XX-lea[*]​
Instrument(e)	pian
Case de discuri	Edition of Contemporary Music
Premii	Bursă Guggenheim[*]​ (1949) Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy[*][[Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (Japanese award for lifetime achievements in the arts and philosophy)|​]] (1989) Membru al Academiei Americane de Arte și Științe[*]​ Arts and Letters Award in Music[*][[Arts and Letters Award in Music (music award given annually to four recipients by the American Academy of Arts and Letters)|​]] (1949) Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music[*][[Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music |​]]
Discografie
Înregistrări notabile	The Perilous Night[*][[The Perilous Night |​]] Two²[*][[Two² |​]] In the Name of the Holocaust[*][[In the Name of the Holocaust |​]] Bacchanale[*][[Bacchanale |​]] 4′33″[*][[4′33″ (three-movement musical composition by John Cage)|​]] Sonatas and Interludes[*][[Sonatas and Interludes (musical works by John Cage)|​]] Organ²/ASLSP
Semnătură
Prezență online
site web oficial

John Milton Cage Jr., cunoscut mai ales ca John Cage (n. 5 septembrie 1912, Los Angeles, California, SUA – d. 12 august 1992, New York City, New York, SUA), a fost un compozitor, teoretician al muzicii, artist și filozof american. Pionier al nedeterminării în muzică, al muzicii electroacustice și al utilizării non-standard a instrumentelor muzicale, Cage a fost una dintre figurile cele mai importante ale avangardei artistice postume celui de-Al doilea război mondial.

Este considerat de critici ca fiind unul dintre cei mai importanți compozitori ai secolului 20.

Muzică

• First Construction in Metal (1939)
• Living Room Music (1940)
• Credo In Us (1942)
• Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947)
• Sonates et interludes (1948)
• Music of Changes (1951)
• 4'33 (1952)
• Radio Music (1956)
• Fontana Mix (1958)
• Cartridge Music (1960)
• Variations II (1961)
• 0'00 (4'33" No.2) (1962)
• Cheap Imitation (1969)
• HPSCHD (1969)
• Branches (1976)
• Litany for the Whale (1980)
• Ryoanji (1983)
• But What About the Noise of Crumpling Paper (1985)
• As SLow aS Possible (1985)
• Organ²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) (1987)
• Europeras 1 & 2 (1987)
• Four6 (1992)

Muzicieni interpreți

Michael Bach, Boris Berman, Leonard Bernstein, Sven Birch, Stephen Drur, Armin Fuchs, Louis Goldestein, Herbert Henck, Martine Joste, Evi Kyriazidou, Cosimo Damiano Lanza, James Levine, Alexeï Lubimov, Bobby Mitchell, Joshua Pierce, Giancarlo Simonacci, Margaret Leng Tan, Adam Tendler, John Tilbury, Roger Zahab.

Legături externe

Informații generale și cataloage

• Site web oficial
• A John Cage Compendium, website by Cage scholar Paul van Emmerik, in collaboration with performer Herbert Henck and András Wilheim. Includes exhaustive catalogues and bibliography, chronology of Cage's life, etc.
• Larry Solomon's John Cage Pages, a complete catalogue of Cage's music and a filmography, as well as other materials.
• Edition Peters: John Cage Biography and Works, Cage's principal publisher since 1961.
• Guide to the John Cage Mycology Collection
• Silence/Stories: related texts and poems by, among others, Lowell Cross, AP Crumlish, Karlheinz Essl, Raymond Federman, August Highland, George Koehler, Richard Kostelanetz, Ian S. Macdonald, Beat Streuli, Dan Waber, Sigi Waters and John Whiting
• Lucrări de sau despre John Cage în biblioteci (catalog WorldCat)
• Format:BrahmsOnline
• John Cage la Internet Movie Database
• Artist Biography and a list of video works by and about John Cage at Electronic Arts Intermix eai.org.
• Interview with John Cage, 21 iunie 1987
• Ross, Alex, "Searching for Silence: John Cage's art of noise", The New Yorker, 4 octombrie 2010.
• John Cage la TV Tropes

Link collections

• John Cage Online
• Photographs of John Cage from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections Arhivat în 30 aprilie 2019, la Wayback Machine.

Subiecte specifice

• The Music of Chance, article from the UK Guardian newspaper, quotes from various people who knew Cage.
• "Silence and Change / Five Hanau Silence": Articles and documents on a project of John Cage, Claus Sterneck and Wolfgang Sterneck in benefit of a squatted culture center in Hanau (Germany) in 1991, (English / German).
• Garten, Joel, "Interview With MoMA Curator David Platzker About the New Exhibition on John Cage", The Huffington Post, 20 februarie 2014.

De ascultat

• In Conversation with Morton Feldman, 1966, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5
• 1989 radio interview on the CBC program Brave New Waves.

Mass media

• John Cage at UbuWeb: historical, sound, film.
• Indeterminacy, Cage's short stories taken from various publications and accessed in random order.
• FontanaMixer: computer program by Karlheinz Essl that generates a realtime version of John Cage's "Fontana Mix" (1958)
• Other Minds Archive: John Cage interviewed by Jonathan Cott, streaming audio
• Other Minds Archive: John Cage and David Tudor Concert at The San Francisco Museum of Art (16 ianuarie 1965), streaming audio
• martie 2002 Suite for Toy Piano (1948) performed by Margaret Leng Tan at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
• 1982 performance of Speech for 5 radios and reel (1955) pe YouTube
• Notes towards a re-reading of the "Roaratorio" – the work of John Cage and his special relationship to radio at Ràdio Web MACBA
• The Rest isn't Silence... it doesn't exist! – Analytical material and recordings going back to the first rehearsal and performance of Imaginary Landscape No. 4 in 1951.
• Fluxradio (podcast) Arhivat în 9 aprilie 2019, la Wayback Machine. – An exploration of some of the concepts and ideas behind the music and performance practice of Fluxus.
• John Cage – Journeys in Sound, Documentary, Germany, 2012, 60 Min., director: Allan Miller & Paul Smaczny, written by Anne-Kathrin Peitz; production: Accentus Music in co-production with Westdeutscher Rundfunk. "Czech Crystal Award" (Best Documentary) at Golden Prague Festival 2012.

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