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John Cage
, Los Angeles (Calif., U.S.) - , New York (N.Y., U.S.)
John Cage, Variations VII
Performance presented as part of 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, The 69th Regiment Armory, New York, N.Y., United States, October ,
Still from the factual footage shot in 16 mm film by Alfons Schilling.
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering fonds.
John Cage, Variations VII
From to , John Cage studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg in California.
Upon his arrival in New York in , he abandoned dodecaphony to develop his own compositional techniques inspired by Asian philosophy (Taoism, Zen Buddhism) and based on indeterminacy (chance). In the late ’s, Cage explored the acoustic possibilities of what he called the prepared piano (a piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects (preparations) between or on the strings.) In the ’s, he participated in the summer program at Black Mountain C