John Cage

M: Writings ’67–’72 is a book of essays by American avant-garde composer John Cage, first published in 1973 by Wesleyan University Press. M was Cage's third full-length book, after Silence: Lectures and Writings and A Year from Monday. All of the essays in it were written between 1967 and 1972. Charles Hamm, a …

Notations is a book that was edited and compiled by American avant-garde composer John Cage with Alison Knowles, first published in 1969. The book is made up of a large collection of graphical scores, facsimiles of holographs, from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, with text by 269 composers, which are …

Silence: Lectures and Writings is a book by American experimental composer John Cage, first published in 1961 by Wesleyan University Press. Silence is a collection of essays and lectures Cage wrote during the period from 1939 to 1961. The contents of the book is as follows: "Foreword" "Manifesto" "The Future of Music: …

Silence, John Cage’s first book and epic masterpiece, was published in October 1961. In these lectures, scores, and writings, Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing that comes from ideas, is not about them, but that produces them. Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the …