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John Cage has been referred to as the most crucial composer of our time. He merged classical Western training with Eastern spirituality to produce an American amalgam of such vitality and originality it continues to establish what we indicate by avant-garde. His influence has touched years of music artists, including Philip Wine glass, David Byrne, and his longtime collaborator Merce Cunningham. His work and ideas have inspired not only the world of music but also boogie, painting, printmaking, training video skill, and poetry. The Roaring Silence documents his life in unrivaled aspect, interweaving a close profile of the evolution of his use an exploration of his visual and philosophical ideas, while placing these in the greater point of view of American life and characters. Paying due focus on Cage's inventions, including the prepared piano, and his pioneering use of indeterminate notation and chance procedures in composition (using the I Ching), David Revill also illuminates Cage the performer, printmaker, watercolorist, expert amateur mycologist, game show super star, political anarchist, and public activist. Arnold Schoenberg once called Cage "not a composer, but an inventor - of genius." This revised edition presents never-before-seen correspondence between Cage and other luminaries of his day, as well as new research into his legacy. The Roaring Silence celebrates the life span and work of this true American original.

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