A John Cage Piece for Organ, 'ASLSP,' or, 'As Slow As Possible,' is Performed in : State of the World from NPR If all goes as planned, the work by the late composer John Cage will take over 600 years ...

No matter whether you prefer jazz, country, or rock and roll, most interesting songs have a bunch of chord changes that come and go throughout the bop’s roughly three-minute runtime. Those tuning into ...

View of an embroidered sheet of music from the piece Organ2/ASLSP by John Cage. Artist Sabine Groschup expands the embroidery with each change of sound. After two years, the sound of the slowest piece ...

Today, in the German town of Halberstadt, an organ performing a piece of music by the late American composer John Cage struck a new chord for the first time in two years. Here it is. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Sixty years ago, an audience of hundreds of spectators in a grand concert hall were surprised to find that the opening number was four minutes and 33 seconds of sheer silence, with no orchestra member ...

The two albums below have plenty in common with one another. Both feature compositions by Americans played by Apartment House, a UK-based ensemble who are featured on Another Timbre often enough to be ...

In his “Europeras,” Cage dismantled centuries of tradition and expectations, for musicians and audiences alike. A rare revival is coming to Detroit. By Joshua Barone Wolff, the last representative of ...