Very interesting article - audio links are what drew me in from the radio. I put a YT link (from the post) at the bottom as an example of a performance of one of his compositions for convenience sake.

Very interesting article - audio links are what drew me in from the radio. I put a YT link (from the post) at the bottom as an example of a performance of one of his compositions for convenience sake.

It's fitting, in a way, that this celebration also overlaps with the annual International Noise Conference across the bridge at Churchill's Pub, because Cage was always sort of the hip person's composer. Working far out of the confines of the usual stuffy concert hall, his work explored ideas of chance, confrontation, and the very idea of music itself. Even after his death, he's the kind of avant-garde artist name-checked by rockers and other aesthetes who could only hope to be as totally boundary-pushing.
John Cage's 4'33" Florida Style
http://www.wlrn.org/post/john-cage-centennial-these-videos-will-make-you-question-definition-music