A Global Salute to John Cage
In 1937, in a talk titled The Future of Music: Credo, John Cage said, "I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard ..."
As a salute to Cage for his leadership in what Joel Chadabe called "the great opening up of music to all sounds", and in the spirit of the 100th anniversary year of his birth, we have built a collection of 100 compositions and sounds — 60 compositions, 40 sounds, all based on field recordings, natural and urban, some using traditional instruments and voice — by composers and sound artists around the world. It is a global salute to John Cage.
The entire collection is available for streaming or for download. To listen or to download a composition or sound ...
In December of 2012, towards the end of the Cage centennial year, in collaboration with MA.P.S at White Box in New York, we produced a four-day series of concerts based on the collection. For more information ...
