john cage

The Music of Earle Brown Unwrapped and Unraveled

The Music of Earle Brown Unwrapped and Unraveled

When a composer admits that one of his more "famous" pieces has no identifiable content, you know you're in for an uphill climb whether you choose to study their works, perform them, or just listen to them.

Transience Permeates the Introspective Pages in ‘Turkey Rediscovered’

Transience Permeates the Introspective Pages in ‘Turkey Rediscovered’

Where Job scraped his sores, where Xenophon crossed the Euphrates, Krause Reichert links the stories he knows well to their terrain and traces.
Dan Trueman: Nostalgic Synchronic

Dan Trueman: Nostalgic Synchronic

The notes slip into unpredictable colours, the moods change in a rapid display of pleasant precariousness, but the sound remains rooted to a core that is unchanging and easily identifiable throughout the record.
New Landscapes From the Ruins: The Mystique of Buying Records

New Landscapes From the Ruins: The Mystique of Buying Records

While owning a record may seem commonplace, some artists hold the controversial view that these "postcards" actually ruin the musical landscape.

‘Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music’ Is Simple and Brilliant

Loré Lixenberg / Gregory Rose / Robert Worby: John Cage: Song Books

Marianne Pousseur: Only

The Practicality of the Impossible: John Cage and the Freeman Etudes

John Cage by David Nicholls