John Cage Online
compiled by Josh Ronsen
last update: 17 October 2020
This is a collection of links to infomation on composer John Cage. Please
send any corrections and updates to me at josh
(ate) ronsen (dote) org If you have any questions about Cage, the perfect
place to ask them is SILENCE, the John Cage Discussion List, which can be joined
at https://lists.virginia.edu/sympa/info/silence.
The John Cage Trust maintains an active presence for dealing with legal issues related to performances and publications. NEW! means link added in past update
or so. Photo of Cage and Losa by Sabine Matthes, photo copyright Sabine Matthes.
Contents
- Edition Peters — a list of works available
from his publisher, Edition Peters; scores can be ordered from here.
- NY Public Library Collection — Annotated list of scores and manuscripts in the NY Public Library collection.
- Larry Solomon's List — Detailed list of pieces arranged chronologically and alphabetically.
- Andre Chaudron's List — Detailed worklist by André Chaudron, now hosted by The John Cage Trust.
- James Pritchett's List — A list compiled by James Pritchett
- Paul van Emmerik's List — detailed list of compositions with notes
- Andre Chaudron's Discography
— very detailed discography by André Chaudron, now incorperated into the John Cage Trust site
- A John Cage Filmography — a list of films that feature Cage or his music
- Paul van Emmerik's Discography — detailed discography by label with notes
- Paul van Emmerik's List of Art Works — detailed list of art works, with notes
- 1954 seminar interview — with Gyorgy Kepes, brief excerpt
- 1963 interview by Jonathan Cott in .mp3 audio format
- 1963 interview — with Jack Hirschman from KPFK FM broadcast, July 1963
- 1965 interview — with Michael Kirby and Richard Schechner, in The Tulane Drama Review, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Winter, 1965), pp. 50-72, JSTOR logon required
- 1966 interview —
with Karen Goodman & Kirk Simon, from film "Buckminster Fuller - Thinking Out Loud"
- John Cage and Morton Feldman in Conversation — 1967 conversation in steaming audio format
- 1968 Interview with John Cage and Lejaren Hiller — with Larry Austin, in Computer Music Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter, 1992), pp. 15-29, reprinted from Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, Issue 4, Vol.2, No2, pp. 11-19, 1968, JSTOR logon required
- 1968 interview — with Richard Kostelanetz, in The Theatre of Mixed Means. London: Pitman, 1970, pp. 50-63
- 1969 interview — with Richard Friedman, from KPFA FM Broadcast
- 1970 interview — with Max Nyffeler
- 1972 interview — with Hans G. Helms, in October, Vol. 82 (Autumn, 1997), p. 77, JSTOR logon required
- interview on "Empty words" — brief excerpt of
radio interview, 1974, also includes audio sample, complete audio version here and here, 2’24” total
- 1974 interview — with Paul Cummings
- 1976 interview — with Holly E. Martin
- interview with Roger Reynolds — 1977 interview, JSTOR logon required
- 1977 interview — with Art Lange, in Brilliant Corners, Number 4
- 1977 interview — with Norma Beecroft, streaming audio
- For The Third Time — 1978 video interview by Richard Kostelanetz on Writing for the Third Time Through Finnegans Wake
- Interview with Cage and Cunningham — 1981 video interview
- 1982 interview — with Stephen Montague, in American Music, Summer 1985, & in Classical Music (May 22, 1982): 11, & in Contact, no. 25 (Autumn 1982)
- 1982 interview — with Peter Gena, 1982
- NEW! on the Pointlessness of the Vinyl Record — video clip from 1983
- 1982 interview — with Wim Mertens at the Dip In The Lake festival, Chicago, 1982, audio
- 1983 interview — with William Furlong, in Audio Arts book.
- 1983 interview — by Charles Amirkhanian, .mp3 audio format, with musical examples
- 1985 interview — video from Rio public performance, video by Sonia Miranda
- 1985 WQXR interview — with Tim Page, streaming audio
- John Cage & Brian Eno interviewed together in 1985 — From Musician magazine by Rob Tannenbaum
- A Conversation about Radio — 1986 interview by Richard Kostelanetz, JSTOR logon required
- interview with John Held — interview with John Held, 1987
- Anything I Say Will Be Misunderstood, 1988 interview — with William Duckworth, The Bucknell Review32.2 (Jan 1, 1989), ProQuest logon required
- His Own Music — 1987 Ur-Conversation produced by Richard Kostelanetz (18 page excerpt from John Cage Conversing), JSTOR logon required
- 1987 interview — by Bruce Duffie
- shhh... you know who — interview with Brian Morton, the Wire, issue 56, October 1988
- 1988 interview — with John Diliberto, in Electronic Musician, March 1988
- 1988 interview on early percussion music — with B. Michael Williams, Percussive Notes, August 1993
- Cage on Slonimsky — 1988? Quicktime video interview with Cage on Slonimsky
- 1989
Q and A Session — at Norton Lectures, in .mp3 format. Part 2 is here.
- 1989 interview — with Takashi Serizawa & Rumiko Kanesaka & Michiko Takagishi
- 1989 interview — with Ed Herrmann, from PRX Radio
- Interview with Steve Sweeney-Turner — from 1989, second part is here, and the third part is here.
- 1989 Guardian interview — with Gerald Larner, in the Guardian, 16 November 1989
- 1989 interview — with Lili Corbus, in Black Mountain Studies Journal, Vol 4
- 1990 interview — in Pataphysics Magazine, Blue Issue, 20 January 1990
- 1990 interview on meditation — with Alan Anderson
- John Cage and the Glaswegian Circus — 1990 interview with Steve Sweeney Turner, JSTOR logon required
- 1991 interview — with Simone Ellis, brief excerpts of interview with Cage
on his paintings
- 1991 interview — with Gustavo Matamoros
- 1991 “Ecoute” transcript — with Miroslav Sebestik
- 1991 interview — with Alan Anderson, in Lion's Roar, November 1, 1994
- 1992(?) interview — with Vicente Cente Carreton Cano, in Atlántica : revista de las artes, Number 4 [click on Texto or PDF button to read]
- 1992 Interview — with Laurie Anderson, in Tricycle, Issue 4
- Autobiographical
statement — (1990)
- Experimental Music — (1957)
- Cage on Feldman — 4 excerpts of writings from "Silence" concerning Morton
Feldman
- quotes
— a collection of 12 quotes by Cage, some from his book Silence
- Mud Book — Scans from Cage's book with Lois Long on making mud pies, more scans here
- Diary:
How to Improve the World — section of work published in Aspen No. 4 (1966)
- Anarchist
Poem — written in 1966?
- The East in the West — 1968, JSTOR logon required
- Notations — the compedium of graphic scores compiled by Cage and Alison Knowles, in .pdf format (also available here)
- 1972 letter to US government — written in support of Yoko Ono's immigration status
- Mesostics
from "M" — 4 mesostics
- Memogram
Correspondences — 15 typed and hand written letters from 1976-1986
- Maurice Graves — Cage discusses the artist in Audio Arts, Vol 6 No. 2&3, 1983.
- Tokyo Lecture and Three Mesostics — 1986, JSTOR logon required.
- Writing
Through Howl — excerpt from "Writing through Howl" (1984)
- Raphael
Mostel — Cage's mesostic on the name "Raphael Mostel"
- mesostic
on Nicolas Slonimsky — mesostic written in 1989
- Anarchic
Harmony
- written
instructions for Five Hanau Silences (1991)
Overviews/Biographies
- bio —
brief bio
- American
Master — brief bio on PBS's American Masters page, includes video
clip
- Wikipedia
entry
- Introduction
to "The Music of John Cage" — the introduction to James Pritchett's
excellent book on Cage's music
- New Yorker biographical overview — Alex Ross, 2010
- NY
Times Obituary — from August 13, 1992
- John Cage:
September 5, 1912-August 12, 1992 — by Mark Swed, JSTOR logon required
- Nothing: A Centenary to Celebrate — by Paul Kilbey
On Specific Pieces
- Dream, In a Landscape, Souvenir and Suite for Toy Piano — liner notes written by Stephen Drury
- The
City Wears a Slouch Hat — liner notes by James Pritchett, also in
.pdf
format
- Sonatas
and Interludes — liner notes by James Pritchett, also in .pdf
format
- Cage's Sonatas
and Interludes for Prepared Piano: Performance, Hearing and Analysis —
by Jeffrey Perry, JSTOR
logon required
- Cage
and the prepared piano — by James Pritchett
- The Sound
collector - The Prepared Piano of John Cage — by Tim Ovens
- prepared
piano demonstration — Real Audio video of Margaret Leng Tan demonstrating
how to prepare the piano for "Bacchanle." A Real Audio sound interview with
MLT on the prepared piano can be found here
- The
Seasons, Cheap Imitation, ASLSP — liner notes written by Stephen Drury
- 4'33"
— by Larry Solomon
- What
silence taught John Cage: The story of 4'33" — by James Pritchett
- 4'33"
— by Peter Gutmann
- Margaret
Leng Tan talks about 4'33" — Real Audio interview
- From No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33” — by Kyle Gann
- Ten
Thousand Things — chapter from James Pritchett's disertation "The
use of chance techniques in the music of John Cage, 1950-1956"
- Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra, Concert for Piano and Orchestra, Fourteen — liner notes written by Stephen Drury
- The Shapes
of Indeterminacy: John Cage's Variations I and Variations II — by David P. Miller
- Indeterminacy and Performance Practice in Cage's Variations — by David P. Miller, in American Music, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring, 2009), pp. 60-86, JSTOR
logon required
- Variations
II — David Tudor's realization of Variations II, written by James
Pritchett, also in .pdf
version
- John Cage's
Variations II: The Morphology of a Global Structure — by Thomas
DeLio, JSTOR logon required
- Variations IV — CD review by Rob Haskins
- Cage, Cunningham, and Collaborators: The Odyssey of Variations V — by Leta E. Miller, in The Musical Quarterly,Vol. 85, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 545-567, JSTOR logon required
- Variations VII — by Clarisse Bardiot
- John
Cage's HPSCHD — by Sara J. Heimbecker, in .pdf format
- John Cage and LeJaren Hiller: HPSCHD, 1969 — by Stephen Husarik, American Music
Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer, 1983), pp. 1-21, JSTOR logon required
- Song
Books — A Marvelous Madness: John Cage's Song Books by Rob Haskins
- Song
Books — Zac Bond (?) explains each solo in detail.
- Imitations/transformations
— by James Pritchett concernng "Harmonies" and "Cheap
Imitation"
- Etceteras
— liner notes written by Stephen Drury
- Empty Words and (a)political art of John Cage— by Jerzy Luty, in Black Mountain Studies Journal, Vol 4
- John Cage and
History: Hymns and Variations — by William Brooks, JSTOR
logon required
- John Cage's
"Letters to Erik Satie" — by Marc Thorman, JSTOR
logon required
- Freeman
Etudes — liner notes by James Pritchett
- Hymnkus
— by Peter Gena
- Marcel
Duchamp, James Joyce, Erik Satie: An Alphabet — review by Josh Ronsen
- Essay
— Text that accompanied an installation of Cage's "Essay" in Berlin
in 1993, written by James Pritchett, also .pdf
version
- A Dip in
the Lake — brief article by Peter Gena
- The Music
of Verbal Space: John Cage's "What You Say" — by Marjorie Perloff
- Europeras
— essay by Stefan Beyst
- De-Composing
Opera/Re-Composing Listening: John Cage's Europeras — by David Ryan,
JSTOR logon required
- Synergetic
Dynamics in John Cage's "Europeras 1 & 2" — by Laura D. Kuhn, JSTOR
logon required
- Europeras
3 and 4 — liner notes by James Pritchett
- I_VI
— "A Man Inspired by Chance" by John Rockwell
- ORGAN^2/ASLSP
— by John Darnielle
- Two^2
— The Harmony of Emptiness: John Cage's Two^2 by Rob Haskins
- Two^3, Inlets, Two^4 — liner notes written by Rob Haskins
- Two^4
— liner notes written by Stephen Drury
- One^4,
Four, Twenty-Nine — liner notes by Rob Haskins
- Four^4
— Anarchism and the Everyday: Cage's Number Pieces by Rob Haskins
- Five^3
— notes by James Pritchett
- John
Cage and the Squat — about Five Hanau Silences (1991)
- Atlas
Eclipticales, Winter Music, 103 — liner notes written by James Pritchett
- Atlas
Eclipticales, Winter Music, 103 — review of Atlas Eclipticales,
Winter Music, 103
- One^8
— by James Pritchett
- One^9
and 108 — Notes for One^9 and 108 by Rob Haskins
- Rolywholyover
— brief article about the Rolywholyover museum event
- “What You Say” — “The Music of Verbal Space” by Marjorie Perloff
Misc. Topics
- Cage —
by Stewart Buettner, JSTOR
logon required
- Analysis
of Scores — Peter Gena analyzes Cage's scores from the 1950s
- John Cage:
morphological systems for scoring — by M. Blair Ligon
- Composing
after Cage. Permission Granted — by Geoff Smith, JSTOR
logon required
- John
Cage: Choral music (a timeline) — liner notes by James Pritchett
- John
Cage: Professor, Maestro, Percussionist, Composer — by B. Michell
Williams
- Notes on Cage,
Harmony and Analysis — by Rob Haskins
- What
John Cage Did — by Kenneth Maue
- Writings
by Wierzbicki — 6 essays and reviews of Cage by James Wierzbicki
- Wiring
John Cage: Silence as a Global Sound System — by Charles A. Baldwin
- John
Cage's Queer Silence — by Jonathan Katz
- Cage Speaks
Faster When the Street Gets Noisy — article by Greg Sandow
- John Cage:
Silence and Silencing — by Douglas Kahn, JSTOR
logon required
- Silencing the
Sounded Self: John Cage and the Intentionality of Nonintention —
by Christopher Shultis, JSTOR
logon required
- EC=JC2: John
Cage as Exemplary Creator — by David Nicholls, also available in
.pdf format
- "Something
like a hidden glimmering": John Cage and recorded sound — by James
Pritchett
- John Cage as
a Hörspielmacher — by Richard Kostelanetz, JSTOR
logon required
- Art & Life: John Cage, Avant-gardism & Technology — by Martin J.C. Dixon, also available in .pdf format
- Cage: Chance: Change — by Marjorie Perloff
- NEW! Making a Difference: Ramifications of Unity and Diversity, Repetition and Variation, in the Work of John Cage — by Steve Lansford, in in Black Mountain Studies Journal, Vol 4
- John Cage and the "Project of Modernity" — by David W. Bernstein
- Postmodernism and the Music of John Cage — by Nancy Perloff
- Freedom
in experimental music: the New York Revolution — by Peter Gena
- NEW! John Cage on Human Nature… — by Maria Popova
- NEW! Listening
to Cage: Nonintentional philosophy and music — by Richard Flemming
- NEW! Determining Indeterminacy: The Legacy of John Cage — by Dean Wilcox, in in Black Mountain Studies Journal, Vol 4
- John Cage's
Living Theatre — by Majorie Perloff
- NEW! John Cage at Black Mountain — by Mary Emma Harris, in in Black Mountain Studies Journal, Vol 4
- NEW! Two Cages, One College: Cage at Black Mountain College, 1948 and 1952 — by David Patterson, in in Black Mountain Studies Journal, Vol 4
- The
Anarchist Art of John Cage — by Richard Kostelanetz
- Crises
of Authenticity — by Joe Panzner; examines Variations II, Song Books,
and 103
- Blame it
on Cage — by Steev Hise
- John
Cage: Composed In America — Kenneth Goldsmith reviews the book "John Cage:
Composed in America"
- NEW! The Asian Factor in John Cage’s Aesthetics — by Holly E. Martin, in in Black Mountain Studies Journal, Vol 4
- John Cage in
a New Key — by Natalie Crohn Schmitt, JSTOR
logon required
- New Beginnings
— by Edward Dudley, JSTOR
logon required
- John Cage:
Ghost or Monster? — By Cornelius Cardew, JSTOR
logon required
- The Cage Case:
Existential Joker — by Elaine Barkin, JSTOR
logon required
- NEW! John Cage Conceptualist Poet — by Marjorie Perloff
- Three Thousand
Seven Hundred Forty-Seven Words about John Cage — by Edward Morris,
JSTOR logon required
- 11
Stories — 11 more remembrances
- NEW! Review of Collected Letters — by Alastair Macaulay, in New York Times, July 21, 2016
Cage & ...
- Cage and Cunningham — by Cornelius Cardew, JSTOR logon required
- Cage and
Cunningham — essay on Cage's working relationship with Merce Cunningham
by Connie Sunday
- The Cage/Cunningham Aesthetic Revisited — by Marjorie Perloff
- Duchamp
and Cage — Glasswanderers by Julia Dur
- Cage and Satie — by Michael Nyman, JSTOR logon required
- John Cage's Studies with Schoenberg — by Michael Hicks, JSTOR logon required
- Cage Contra Stravinsky, or Delineating the Aleatory Aesthetic — by Frank W. Hoogerwerf, JSTOR logon required
- Henry Cowell and John Cage: Intersections and Influences, 1933-1941 — by Leta E. Miller, JSTOR logon required
- Privileging the Moment: Cage, Jung, Synchronicity, Postmodernism — by Charles Hamm, JSTOR logon required
- The Influence of Joseph Campbell on John Cage — by Edward Crooks
- Cage and Beyond: An Annotated Interview with Christian Wolff — by David Patterson, JSTOR logon required
- John
Cage's Dublin, Lyn Hejinian's Leningrad: Poetic Cities as Cyberspaces — by Marjorie Perloff
- Cage and
Rauschenberg — by Peter Gena
- Morton Feldman
speaks of Cage — Interview with Morton Feldman about Cage
- Robert Morris and John Cage — by Branden W. Joseph, in October, Vol. 81 (Summer, 1997), pp. 59-69, JSTOR logon required
Leaving aside the many beautiful scores by Cage that could be considered "visual art," here are links to various paintings, sculptures and other visual artworks made by Cage.
- Paul van Emmerik's List of Art Works — detailed list of art works, with notes
- Not Wanting to Say Anthing about Marcel (1969)

- Plant Watering Instructions (?)

- Changes and Disappearances #26 (1979-82)

- Crown Point Press


— images of paintings made at Crown Point Press, plus a photo of Cage working in 1980
- Watercolors at Margarete Roeder Gallery

- Changes + Disappearances #30 (1982)

- R3 (Where R=Ryoanji) (1983)

- 2R + 13 x 14 (Where R=Ryoanji) (1983)

- Weathered (1984)

- Ryoku 5 (1985)

- Eninka #35 (1986)

- 10R/6 (1987)

- New River Watercolor Series I (1988)


- New River Watercolor, Series IV, #4 (1988)

- Dramatic Fire (1989)

- 75 Stones (1989)

- Stones (1989)

- Wild Edible Drawing No. 6 & 8 (1990)

- Mesostinatostics (1989)
— 2 "Mesostinatostic" writings on colored discs
- River Rocks and Smoke 4/11/90 #1 (1990)

- Mozart Mix (1991)

- Matress Factory Installation (1991)
— picture gallery
of installation of artwork by Cage and others
- Untitled (1991)

- Where R = Ryoanji (3R/17) (1992)

- Story
from Living Room Music — voices by Arnold Marinissen
- The Perilous Night — performed by Richard Bunger. This is part of an 81 minute radio program on the prepared piano; other works by other composers are also performed, but a demonstration is given on how to prepare a piano to perform Cage's A Valentine Out of Season. Streaming format
- Sonata XIII — excerpt
of "Sonata XIII" (on poorly designed page with frames: click on the little
picture of the screw and then click on Sonata XIII icon)
- Suite for Toy Piano — performed by Margaret Len Tang, streaming format
- String Quartet in Four Parts — Zehetmair Quartet performs 2 parts, in
Real Media format
- 26'1.1499"
for a String Player — .mp3 of Charlotte Moorman realization
- Radio
Music (1956) — Real Audio file from Fluxus Anthology
- Electronic
Music for Piano — .mp3, performed by John Tilbury and Sebastian Lex
- Mushroom
Haiku — .mp3 of Cage reading. Another reading from Silence is here.
- Cartridge Music — 1977 radio program featuring excerpts from Cartridge Music, Aria with Fontana Mix, Variations IV, 4’33”, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse), Part VI , Song Books: I & II & Empty Words, In a Landscape plus a Q&A with Cage before an audience. 134 minutes, streaming format.
- Aria
with Fontana Mix — .FLAC format of Cathy Berberian performance with Magnetic
tape
- Fontana
Mix - Feed — .mp3 of 1967 Max Neuhaus realization
- Solos
for Voice 2 — .FLAC format of The Brandeis University Chamber Chorus
performance
- Variations
I — .FLAC format of Gerd Zacher (organ) performance
- Variations
I — .mp3 of 2004 live version by Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Mihaela
Ursuleasa (here
is the score).
- Variations
III — .FLAC format of New Music Ensemble of the San Francisco Conservatory
performance.
- 1965 lecture/performance —"On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist and His Work", published in his Silence, and "26 Statements Re Duchamp", and "Jasper Johns: Stories and Ideas"
- Duet for Cymbal — 1965 performance by Cage and David Tudor, using the score to “Cartridge Music”
- Varitations IV — 1965 performance by Cage and David Tudor
- Diary:
How to Improve the World I (excerpt) — Real Audio file taken from Wergo CD
- MEWANTEMOOSIECDAY — 1969 performance combining works of Satie and Cage at Putah Creek Lodge (UC Davis), streaming format
- Music in Dialogue — 1969 Lecture at UC Davis
- Lecture on Chance — 1969 lecture on chance operations at UC Davis, streaming format
- Lecture on mushrooms — 1970 lecture on mushrooms and other subjects, streaming format
- 1971
Performance — of "Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel," "Diary:
How to Improve theWorld (You Will Only Make Matters Worse, Part VI)," and "Acrostic: Merce Cunningham."
- 1971 lecture/reading of Diary — by Cage
- 62
Mesostics Re - Merce Cunningham (1971) — .mp3 of Jack Briece performance
- Mureau
— .mp3s of Cage reading this work in Germany, 1972
- Song,
Derived from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1976) — .mp3 of Cage
reading
- Mureau + Q&A — 1977 reading and Q&A at Cabrillo Music Festival
- Writing
for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake (1978) — .mp3 of Cage reading
- A
Dip in the Lake — .mp3s of a 2000 version
- Mesostic
I-VI Part I (1989) — .mp3, read by Cage
- Themes
and Variations — read by Al Filreis, Shawn Walker, and George Blaustein
- Composition
in Retrospect — read by Cage
- John
Cage Meets Sun Ra — .mp3 file taken from LP of same name. The other half
of this can be found here.
- What
You Say (On Jasper Johns) (excerpt) — Real Audio file taken from Mode
Records release The Text Pieces I
- ASLSP
— current note in 639 year long performance of ASLSP
- One^7 — 1991 performance by Cage, + Q&A with audience, 77 minutes, streaming format
- Ode to Gravity: John Cage — Charles Amirkhanian produced radio show featuring excertps of Cage's music and bits of 1983 and 1987 interviews
Performances
- A
Room — by Floraleda Sacchi (harp)
- In
the Name of the Holocaust — performed by Margaret Leng Tan
- Dreams
that Money Can Buy — video and audio from Hans Richter film, with Marcel
Duchamp's rotating art and prepared piano music from Cage.
- In
A Landscape — by Floraleda Sacchi (harp)
- Sonata
I & II? — 2002 performance by James Tenney (prepared piano) , two more Sonatas XIV
& XV? by Tenney can be found here.
- Sonata
V — from the Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48), terrific view from inside
the prepared piano
- Cage
playing 4'33" on piano in street — 1976 clip from Nam June Paik's "Tribute
to John Cage" [the video clip didn't play too well on my work PC]
- 4'33"
— by Margaret Leng Tan (toy piano)
- Water Walk — 1960 performance on I've Got a Secret TV show.
- Speech
— 1982? rehearsal supervised by Cage
- Variations
III — 2007 rehearsals by Motion Ensemble
- Variations
V — 1965? clip (2 minutes) of Cage, Tudor, Gordon Mumma performing Variations
V with Merce Cunningham dancers
- John
Cage and David Tudor — 1966 electronic performance + Cage speaking from
"Sound?" (Variations V? VII?)
- Solos for Voice 58 — 88 minute performance of these 18 microtonal ragas
Interviews and Documentaries
- 1969 interview — excerpt of 1969 interview, Quicktime movie
- mushroom picking — video of Cage collecting mushrooms and speaking, from 1980?
- Birdcage — 1972 documentary by Hans G Helms for German TV
- Four American Composers: John Cage — 1983 documentary by Peter Greenaway
- 27 Sounds made in a kitchen — portion of Peter Greenaway film with voice-over by Cage, 1983?
- 1987 interview
- American Masters: John Cage — 1990 documentary by Vivian Perlis
(dates with ? are approximated by Josh Ronsen)
- spikey
hair — 1948?
- more
spikey hair
— Cage on cover of Critical Inquiry
- car
— Cage driving his Model A, 1952?
- New
School Class — Cage and students in the infamous New School class, 1958/9?
- Cage
and Cathy Berberian — 1962?
- Cage
and Cathy Berberian — 1962?
- Cage
and James Drew — 1964
- Cage
and David Tudor — 1964
- in
performance — photo of Cage in performance with Tudor, Gordon Mumma,
and Merce Cunningham dancers (also 2 minute video clip), 1965
- William
Gedney Photos — 38 black and white photos of Cage taken by William Gerdney
in the late 1960s, photos include the electronic chessboard from "Reunion"
and Cage hunting for mushrooms
- 4
photos of Cage — 1967-8
- performing Vexations — 1969
- dark
Cage — 1970? portrait
- Cage
and Mumma with headphones — 1970, Cage and Gordon Mumma in radio studio
- 4
photos — 4 photos of Cage from 1970? to 1990?
- 4
photos — 4 other photos of Cage from 1970? to 1990?
- laugh
— bearded Cage laughing
- lecturing
to young people — 1973 at Oberlin
- collage photos
— 8 photos of Cage on poster for 1980 lecture
- painting
— Cage working on art at Crown Point Press, 1980
- reading
— Cage performs at The University of Maryland, 1981
- 2
photos of Cage and Cunningham — 1983
- Cage
and Cunningham in Italy — 1985?
- Cage
meeting Sun Ra — image from rare album cover, 1986
- smile
— Cage giving a smile while posing, 1987
- painting
— Cage painting, 1988
- Cage
and LaBarbara — Cage and Joan LaBarbara, 1988?
- Cage
and Margaret Leng Tan — 1988?
- Cage
making soup — 1989
- holding
box of mysterious objects — 1990?
- holding cat — 1990?
- Cage
explaining — closeup of face, 1990?
- Cage
with players — Cage with SF Contempoary Players, Gordon Mumma, William
Winnat, 1992
- SILENCE:
The John Cage Discussion List — an email discussion list run by Joseph
Zitt. Searchable archives of the list can be found at the New
Albion Records website. The
archives for the list from 1994-199 are here.
- upcoming
Cage concerts around the world
- John Cage Compendium
— a detailed list of what Cgae did, when and where.
- Chronology
1912-1972 and Chronology1972-1992
— Detailed day-to-day activies compiled by Paul
van Emmerik
- Detailed bibliography A-B — compiled by Paul van Emmerik, continued in C, D-J, K-P and Q-Z.
- bibliographic index of pieces — an index of where each composition is mentioned in Cage literature
- index for book "Conversing with Cage" — compiled by Larry Solomon
- computer
programs — list of computer programs designed by Andrew Culver and used
by Cage in his work.
- Cage/Fluxus
bibliography — bibiolography of Cage interviews pertaining to Fluxus
- Cage
bibliography — from Corner magazine
- CDs of Cage's music can be ordered from Forced
Exposure (US), Mode
(US), Ogre Press @ CD Baby (US)
- Edition
Peters — Cage's primary publisher, Cage's scores can be ordered from
here
- Electronic Arts Intermix — has videos to rent for educational & screening rentals
- Wesleyan University Cage archive
- Fonts — Computer fonts based on Cage's handwriting.
- SILENCE: The John Cage Discussion List — this email discussion list is the perfect place to ask questions concerning John Cage. Searchable archives of the list can be found at the New Albion Records website.
- What can I do? One thing that is needed that I do not have time to do is to compile lists of web sites about Cage in German and French. Also, I would like to post interviews with Cage from out of print sources. I need help in getting permission to post these.
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• mail art • monk
mink pink punk • frequency
curtain • purrfect sounds
• austinnitus • gates
ensemble • pierre boulez project
• austin new music
co-op • song olympics
• dumitrescu & avram info
• garnish off our plates!