Live from The John Cage Trust: 2026 John Cage Mycological Foray Saturday afternooon events: Sep 26, 2026

Mycopoetics, Fungi First Aid, and John Cage's "Mureau" and "Child of Tree."Welcome by Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director of the John Cage Trust, followed by George Quasha's talk:“Language, Mushroom...

Live from The John Cage Trust: 2026 Mycological Foray: Sep 26, 2026

Ecology Walk at Tivoli Bays with Luke Sarrantonio and Ethan Crenson.

Live from The John Cage Trust: 2026 Mycological Foray: Deep Imagining Circle with Gabriela D'Elia: Sep 26, 2026

A Deep Imagination Mushroom Circle with Gabriela D’Elia, concluding our Mycological Foray. We gathered together in a circle listening to reflections on Cage, Mushrooms, and collective imagining. 

Live from The John Cage Trust: 2026 Mycological Foray: Odiferous Mushroom Walk with Ethan Crenson, Part 1: Sep 26, 2026

Bard’s very own Buddhist Chaplain, Tatjana Myoko von Prittwits und Gaffron, led a meditation to commence the afternoon of events. It was followed by a walk exploring the wonders of mushroom smells led...

Live from The John Cage Trust: 2026 Mycological Foray: Odiferous Mushroom Walk with Ethan Crenson, Part 2: Sep 26, 2026

New York Mycological Society president Ethan Crenson led a walk exploring the wonders of mushroom smells on a trail behind Montgomery Place. Part of the 2026 John Cage Mycological Foray presented...

Live from The John Cage Trust: Relationships with Fungi... It Can Seem Complicated: Sep 25, 2026

A talk by mycologist Luke Sarrantonio, part of the 2026 John Cage Mycological Foray

Live from The John Cage Trust: Lecture on Nothing + Extended Lullaby: Jun 27, 2026

Cagecircle: Composition for an Exhibition (June 27 – July 31, 2026) brought together a dazzling variety of archival items—from twenty-two collections—to create an unexpected cabinet of curiosities. Fo...

Live from The John Cage Trust: A Chance Operation: Feb 24, 2024

Morphogenic Resonance and The Radio Spectrum. Live from the John Cage Trust.

Live from The John Cage Trust: A Chance Operation: Feb 24, 2024

Morphogenic Resonance and The Radio Spectrum. Live from the John Cage Trust.

Britt Bunyard, “Fungi Synecdoche [A Hidden World]”: Oct 07, 2018

We are all aware of mushrooms and other fungi all around us. But how much do we know about life within the fungus among us? John Cage taught us to take our time and to look closely. This discussion,...

David Rose, “John Cage in the History of Mushroom Enthusiasm”: Oct 07, 2018

The influence of John Cage on the development of amateur mycology is profound, but like fungal mycelium is largely evident underground. While the zeal for mycology is rare, there have been several na...

George Quasha, “Talking Mushrooms: Mycopoiesis/Mycopoetics”: Oct 07, 2018

What would it mean to speak of the “poetry of mushrooms?” The special nature and history of our awareness of mushrooms suggests a particular valence of this question. Now that we can speak of the i...

John Cage Mycology Day Introductions by Laura Kuhn and Britt Bunyard, with remarks by Irene Liberman.: Oct 07, 2018

Introductions by Laura Kuhn (Director of the John Cage Trust), Britt Bunyard (Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, and Irene Liberman who spoke about her late husband, the cele...

Morning Foray Observations at John Cage Mycology Day: Oct 07, 2018

David Rose (Archivist, Program Chair of the Connecticut-Westchester Mycological Association) and Britt Bunyard (Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Fungi journal) walk attendees through the mushrooms gat...

Mushroom Walk at John Cage Mycology Day: Oct 07, 2018

John Cage was an enthusiastic mycologist who expressed his interest in fungi in his music, his text compositions, and his visual art works, as well as in his lifelong mushroom collecting and identific...

Paul Sadowski, “Three for a Waltz”: Oct 07, 2018

This performance piece is cast in the mold of John Cage’s Indeterminacy: 45 spoken stories with two tracks of sound drawn from the 2012 NYMS/John Cage Celebration production of 49 Waltzes for...

Seth Chrisman & Laura Kuhn, “From Whence Do Budding Mycologists Come?”: Oct 07, 2018

Wrapping up an afternoon of presentations by master mycologists, Laura Kuhn will engage Bard’s own Seth Chrisman in conversation about the latest breed of fungi enthusiasts to emerge from the Hudson V...

Special Remote Broadcast: Pauline Oliveros at The Selected Letters of John Cage: Nov 21, 2016

Pauline Oliveros reading in celebration of the publication of The Selected Letters of John Cage, e.d Laura Kuhn (Wesleyan University Press, 2016). In partnership with The John Cage Trust, Wave Farm pr...

Special Remote Broadcast: The Selected Letters of John Cage: Nov 21, 2016

In celebration of the publication of The Selected Letters of John Cage, e.d Laura Kuhn (Wesleyan University Press, 2016), in partnership with The John Cage Trust, Wave Farm presents a remote broadcast...