JOHN CAGE

*05.09.1912
+12.08.1992

American composer

pioneer

4'33"

Merce Cunningham
-life partnership
-collaboration and relationship between dance and music, eg: beach birds for camera

John would compose the music and Merce would choreograh the dancing. The two would be deeply connected while still leaving space for each other.

“prepared piano”

John Cage and Merce Cunningham together around 1945

"college was of no use to a writer"
-> trip to Europe between 1930-1931

apprenticeship under Schoenberg