4'33" for Public Bus

Audio tour of works yet to be made. A riff on John Cage’s 4’33" originally created for an exhibition at Graham Projects in New Haven, CT.

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Danek writes, "The following 'phonescapes' are extractions from larger, live soundscapes, crafted by looping numerous feeds of cellular transmissions. The way these transmissions interact are largely...

Airspace

Buicks n’ snowbanks

Writes Powers, "Buicks n’ snowbanks started with the urge to record a piece determined mostly by chance, while making it sound cohesive through the use of two independent guitar solos running most the...

The Butterfly Flip

Cage Mix: Static Age

Static Age involved the selection and sampling of the Imaginary Landscape compositions numbers 1,2,3,4, and 5 by John Cage from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. These compositions were digitally captured and...

Cage Transmitted

Two four-hour durational live performances by Irish sound art collective Strange Attractor, with special guest Stephen Vitiello. Presented at Harvestworks, New York as part of Norte Maar's "Cage Trans...

Cashier Concerto

Cashier Concerto is a sound piece that consists of three parts, all recorded at a local shopping mall on an average Saturday afternoon. The sounds of the cash registers appear in a rhythmic pattern th...

DeComposition For Radios v. 2012

Writes Damien Catera, "In this piece, which is inspired by Cage’s Imaginary Landscapes, the signals of three live radios are used as a point of departure for an improvised performance , that embraces...

Discrepancy in Flow II (for John Cage)

Hubbard writes, "DIF II is a small box-like score using shape notation and language. For this realization, I have created a short structure where the left to right matrix equals one minute per box, an...

electrostática (Antártica)

Obón writes, "electrostática (Antártica) is built from a digital synthesis of two sound bits: homemade ice cracking and wind blowing. I mixed and recycled several times these bits in different frequen...

Failure, A Writer's Life

Failure, A Writer's Life is a catalogue of literary monstrosities. Its loosely organized vignettes and convolutes provide the intrepid reader with a philosophy for the unreadable, a consolation for th...

Ghosting

Gowanus Mix

Gowanus Mix stems from a series of canoe rides undertaken on the Gowanus Canal – a heavily polluted industrial waterway in Brooklyn, New York. The sounds collected while navigating have been filtered,...

Heaven Is Already Gone

In the early 1990s, Lee Rosevere recorded Nobody Goes To Heaven, an 8-minute sound work created by playing a short-wave radio straight to each track of a 4-track tape, and then live mixing the results...

I Met John Cage on the Road to Skibbereen

Inspired by a car journey to the town of Skibbereen on the south coast of Ireland, while listening to John Cage’s ‘Indeterminacy’ on cassette tape for the first time, this work is an homage to that or...

In a soundscape

Write Orbis, "What we can say about this impro, is that we worked around the Cage's music score (in a landscape), we applied -in the free way- the general concepts of hazard/accident/chance, and at la...

In Determining John Cage

Write the artists, "In his performance-lecture “Indeterminacy,” Cage recounts a series of one-minute stories drawn from his life or the lives of his friends. The lecture is presented simultaneously wi...

InonoutonInoutonin

Andrea-Jane Cornell's InonoutonInoutonin (une ritournelle) is a performed comprovisation inspired by John Cage's use of the broadcast studio as a tool for generating compositional materials. The compo...

John Cage Reflections, a work for "120 Hours for John Cage"

John Cage Reflections is a broadcast work that combines spoken word with a live performance of Cage’s Cartridge Music. An actor inspired by Cage's speaking voice will read text adapted from a 1972 int...

Landscape Under Construction

Landscape Under Construction is a tribute to John Cage for between 1 and 42 CD players using only his CDs. It was written in the Cage tradition by flipping coins and consulting the I Ching, creating e...

Leave It or Double It

Whitehead writes, "All I knew for sure from the outset is that I would aim for a duration of 33:33, and that I would use the source material of translated excerpts from the Turin newspaper La Stampa r...

Ombre (Shadows)

Ombre (Shadows) is a composition for electronic music (four-channels, where possible) and piano with the possibility of a live performance. The Milan tube and The Divine Comedy written by the Italian...

Punkt—Radiophonia #2

Punkt—Radiophonia #2 consists of an intermedia concert for radio, television and electronics, which was commissioned by the Granular Association for the Metasonic Lx 2005 festival. It’s a piece of dir...

Radio Daze

O'Keeffe writes, "This work is a reflection on chance and text, particularly in Cage’s exploration of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. The idea of turning elements of this book into a sound work seems ideal, a...

Radio Music

John Cage’s 1956 composition Radio Music is composed for one to eight performers using radios as instruments. Radio Music is a site reflexive work that documents place, temporality, and real-time deci...

Riverbroadening

A score for up to four players: a non-reed woodwind a radio using FM or shortwave frequencies a ‘keyboard’ instrument a ‘chordal’ string instrument A guided mindful improvisation. Three r...

Six lines, some of which are broken

Folkestone Fringe's contribution to "120 hours for John Cage," UK based Folkestone Fringe, pay homage with Six Lines Some of which are Broken. This work has been constructed by streaming six differing...

Slow Birds

Produced by EcoArtTech for "120 Hours for John Cage."

Speech, Indeterminacy

Live performance for "Silence & Transmission" at An Lanntair arts center in Stornaway, Scotland. A concert to celebrate the centenary of John Cage, featuring Peter Urpeth and his ensemble.

Talk Radio for John Cage

Talk Radio for John Cage is a piece conceived by Kurt Gottschalk which pays tribute both to Cage’s groundbreaking use of indeterminacy and chance operation in the composing as well as his use of radi...

the he and the she of it

This piece is loosely based on Kenneth Patchen’s script for John Cage’s The City Wears A Slouch Hat, drawing out ideas and sonorities and updating them to Dublin in the 21st century. In the original a...

The Inventor of Silence

Merrell writes, "The Inventor of Silence is constructed entirely from radio recordings I made in 2012, except for recordings of Cage himself speaking extemporaneously on his musical philosophy, and th...

The truth we know

Rodgers and Jones write, "In radio interviews between John Cage and Morton Feldman between 1966/67, the composers discussed the notion of intrusive sound. Feldman cited the buzzing of transistor radio...

This is Not 0'00" (Homage to John Cage in the Year of his Centennial)

Based on the John Cage composition 0'00"(4'33" No.2). Originally distributed by Midnight Moscolallia, an intermittent journal of select audio.

Walk on a Street And Listen

Ahmet Kizilay's Walk on a Street And Listen was inspired by a radio conversation between Morton Feldman and John Cage, in which Feldman expresses his frustration with the cacophony of multiple radios...

Walls Have Hears p433

Originally created as a sound installation for the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork City, Ireland to celebrate the centenary of Bloomsday, this piece uses archival recordings of James Joyce reading Ulysse...