experiences isn’t what we do. It’s that sense of discovering the hidden that the amateur mycologist found so thrilling about mushroom hunting. The pages of the Mushroom Book — a collaboration with ...

"He is probably the most controversial figure in the musical world today and when you hear his performance, if you will forgive me, you'll understand why." “I consider music the production of sound, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. By now, the accomplishments of Cage’s busy and long life are well known. By now, the accomplishments of Cage’s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors and journalists have been coming to see the organ in the Burchardi Church to witness the sound change in the world's ...

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 ...

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 The start was typical: Oper ...

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 ...