1st Edition

John Cage Composing, Computing, and Curating

By Sandra Skurvida Copyright 2025
174 Pages 10 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 10 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 10 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This study reassesses Cage’s multifaceted practice from a transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions. In his compositions, John Cage opened the structures of music, language, and the museum to change perpetuated by chance operations. His correspondences across history with an extended circle of creators, including Erik Satie,... Read more

Introduction: Cage and the Posthuman  1. Repetition and Difference: Erik Satie  2. Chance Measures: After Duchamp  3. Text Music 4. Technologies of Indeterminacy  5. Museum as Instrument  Afterward: Cage and the Contemporary

Biography

Sandra Skurvida teaches in the History of Art Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), State University of New York (SUNY).