John Cage is an interesting character. For me, his work often evokes that knee-jerk reaction, "anyone can do that." And there is a good deal of his work that is really quite annoying and grating to the senses. However, there are very few people that manage to repeatedly pushed the bounds of their discipline in so many directions. For our purposes in this class, he's a difficult figure. Cage seems to have one foot in the modern, but clearly much of his work charts the territory of the postmodern. That's a subject for a later date.
In the meantime, I give you John Cage's "Water Walk."
You might also check out this short film made by John Cage and Roland Kirk, "Sound":
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