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Heimbecker, Sara J.

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Title

John Cage's HPSCHD

Author(s)

Heimbecker, Sara J.

Issue Date

2011-05-25T14:58:22Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Magee, Gayle S.

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Magee, Gayle S.

Committee Member(s)

• Turino, Thomas R.
• Solis, Gabriel
• Temperley, Nicholas

Department of Study

Music

Discipline

Musicology

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Date of Ingest

2011-05-25T14:58:22Z

Keyword(s)

• John Cage
• HPSCHD
• computer music
• utopia
• anarchy
• politics
• participation
• theater
• historical source materials

Abstract

From 1967-1969, John Cage (1912-1992) was an associate Member of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois. The appointment came about with the help of Lejaren Hiller, founder of the University of Illinois’ Experimental Music Studio and the co-composer of the first significant computer composition Il

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Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage

A man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents—musician, inventor, composer, poet, and even amateur mycologist—John Cage became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. Silverman begins with Cage’s childhood in interwar Los Angeles and his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of his creativity. Cage continued his studies in the United States with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg, and he soon began the experiments with sound and percussion instruments that would develop into his signature work with prepared piano, radio static, random noise, and silence. Cage’s unorthodox methods still influence artists in a wide range of genres and media. Silverman concurrently follows Cage’s rich personal life, from his early marriage to his lifelong persona

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John Cage

American avant-garde composer (1912–1992)

This article is about the composer. For other people with the same name, see John Cage (disambiguation).

John Cage
Cage in 1988
Born	John Milton Cage Jr. (1912-09-05)September 5, 1912 Los Angeles, California
Died	August 12, 1992(1992-08-12) (aged 79) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Pomona College
Occupations
Spouse
Partner	Merce Cunningham

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century.^[1][2][3][4] He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives.

Cage's teachers included Henry Cowell