John Cage

Essays and posts on the music of American composer John Cage (1912-1992)

John Cage’s silent piece(s)

Everyone knows that John Cage wrote a piece of music that is nothing but silence. But in fact there are four different works by Cage that he considered silent. This eight-part series examines the history of both Cage’s conception of silence and of these four pieces: Silent prayer (1948), 4′ 33″ (1952), 0′ 00″ (1962), and One3 (1989). 1.

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