nown music at different times. This piece was titled “Imaginary Lanscapes No. 4”.Cage went all through life pushing the boundaries of traditional music. Opening people and other composers minds to all avenues of new music through sounds and indeterminacy. He had influenced everything from the use of silence as music, to how people view and think about music and sound itself. Some refer to John Cage as the father of indeterminate music. He died in 1992, where his obituary actually made the front page of the New York Times. Not only during his life, but even after life, Cage was one of the most influential and innovative composers of the 20th century.In 1993, “A Chance Operation – The John Cage Tribute” was released. It included a large variety of artists performing a tribute to John Cage. Not only classical artists either. Frank Zappa actually does 4’33’’ on the tribute. If you get a chance, I encourage listening to it. Few Trivia bits1. Extremely knowledgeable of Mushrooms2. Liked playing bridge as well as other card games and board games.3. He recorded vegetables being sliced, put into blender, then he drank the juice.4. Spent some time in Europe learning to become a writer before becoming musician5. The possible meaning of 4’33’’ as talked about in this paper.Referenceshttp://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~splat/Cage_Tribute.htmlhttp://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/02127.htmlhttp://www.xs4all.nl/~gaud/biobak/c/cagej.htmhttp://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/perloff/cage.htmlhttp://www.edition-peters.de/cage/cage_engl.htmlhttp://encarta.msn.com/find/Consise.asp?ti=01065000http://newalbion.com/artists/cagej/autobiog.htmlhttp://www.hnh.com/composer/cage.htmJohn Cage List of Workshttp://metalab.unc.edu/mal/MO/cage/cageworks.html...
