{"id":18403,"date":"2023-05-19T09:25:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18403"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:45:07","slug":"john-cage-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/john-cage-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cage Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">John Cage (American, 1912-1992)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cage was an avant-garde experimental composer based in Los Angeles. He attended Pomona College and University of California, Los Angeles before traveling throughout Europe. Cage worked with percussion groups and composed music for dance performances, including collaborating with dancer Merce Cunningham and artist Robert Rauschenburg at Black Mountain College. Inspired by avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp using everyday objects, Cage experimented with tape recorders, record players, radios, and prepared pianos, where objects like bolts, screws, and erasers were placed on or between the strings. Throughout his career, he believed in the randomness and the inherent value of all forms of sound, which would hold great influence with contemporary composers for decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"17684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/04\/John-Cage-by-Steven-Speliotis-e1679059012326-edited-900x900.webp\" alt=\"Steven Speliotis, John Cage at 80, 1992, silver gelatin print, 14 in., Gift of Robert Flynn Johnson, 2021.11.11\" class=\"wp-image-17684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/04\/John-Cage-by-Steven-Speliotis-e1679059012326-edited-900x900.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/04\/John-Cage-by-Steven-Speliotis-e1679059012326-edited-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/04\/John-Cage-by-Steven-Speliotis-e1679059012326-edited-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/04\/John-Cage-by-Steven-Speliotis-e1679059012326-edited-768x767.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/04\/John-Cage-by-Steven-Speliotis-e1679059012326-edited-628x628.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/04\/John-Cage-by-Steven-Speliotis-e1679059012326-edited.webp 1487w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Steven Speliotis, <em>John Cage at 80<\/em>, 1992, silver gelatin print, 14 in., Gift of Robert Flynn Johnson, 2021.11.11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cage (American, 1912-1992) Cage was an avant-garde experimental composer based in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18403","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19150,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18403\/revisions\/19150"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}