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John Cage

Musician (and artist, philosopher, and mushroom picker) Milton Cage Jr. was a revolutionary, whether you like his revolution or not. He created controversial art. Some will say a scam, others a masterpiece. And maybe probably both. Because the nuances in creation are many, just as after a while we can see that there are quite a few sounds in the silence.

Cage was the creator of the famous piece 4′ 33″, in which the performers spent four and a half minutes in silence, without playing a single note. For many a neo-Dadaist nonsense, but for others a very, very serious piece of art. After all, the piece was a reflection on “silence” (or if it is possible that such a thing exists), on emptiness, on nothingness. Can nothing exist…?

A student of Arnold Schönberg, Cage began his career creating “mathematical music” that eventually led to random music. Improvisation was a good tool to create things. He discovered the East, the “I Ching” and later would even let a computer compose the music, anticipating electronic music.

And at Black Mountain College he was one of the precursors of performance art. Together with colleagues like Raschenberg, he carried out the first happenings, in which chance and improvisation were fundamental.

It could be said that two concepts like chance and silence, so little and at the same time so important, were its main theme, tool and support. Someone had to do it.

Many do not tolerate that something like this can be called art. However, Cage’s influence is there. Not only in music, but in literature and of course in art.