NPR Music wrote…
Today, exactly 100 years after his birth, composer, writer and conceptual artist John Cage is still, for many, Public Enemy No. 1. On a scale far beyond the reach of any other 20th-century art composer, this master provocateur is still the one who inflames and infuriates.
Then they go on to offer AV answers to some pressing questions, like – What is a prepared piano? What did Cage mean by Indeterminacy? Is it okay to laugh at Mr. Cage?
See & hear it all: http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/09/05/160339846/silence-and-sound-five-ways-of-understanding-john-cage
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