"John Cage was born Sept. 5, 1912, at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles. There is no plaque. Nor are there plaques anywhere in L.A., Long Beach, Santa Monica or Claremont, cities where Cage grew up, studied and gave his first concerts. And became John Cage. He was, perhaps, the greatest music radical of the 20th century. He composed using chance procedures. His music honored silence along with sound. He made no distinction between traditional musical sounds and what some call noise. He embraced, rather than escaped from, messy urban life as well as anarchic nature. He was controversial, to say the least, but his influence has been, and continues to be, extraordinary. No one in the last century did more to change the way much of the world now thinks about, makes and consumes art."
LA Times
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2008 February: John Cage
2010 January: 4′33″
2010 October: Indeterminacy
2010 November: Silence: lectures and writings
2011 January: Toy piano
2011 May: Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939)
2012 February: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It (1990)
2012 April: John Cage Unbound: A Living Archive
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