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American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)

Also known as: J. C., John Milton Cage Jr., John Milton, Jr. Cage, Джон Кейдж, جون كيج, 존 케이지

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Morton Feldman1926–1987
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His essays on sound, silence and indeterminacy share Cage's aesthetic preoccupations and conversational tone. (AI reason)
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Pauline Oliveros1932–
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Her writings on deep listening and text scores explore attention and sound much like Cage's lectures. (AI reason)
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Jackson Mac Low1922–2004
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His chance-operation poetry and procedural texts parallel Cage's mesostics and aleatory writing. (AI reason)
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Marcel Duchamp1887–1968
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His notes and writings on chance and the readymade anticipate Cage's anti-intentional aesthetics. (AI reason)
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Gertrude Stein1874–1946
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Her repetitive, non-narrative prose shares the playful, process-driven language Cage admired. (AI reason)
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D. T. Suzuki1870–1966
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His accessible essays on Zen underpin the emptiness and non-intention central to Cage's writing. (AI reason)
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Dick Higgins1938–1998
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His Fluxus-era theory and intermedia texts extend Cage's experimental performance ideas. (AI reason)
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Yoko Ono
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Her instruction book Grapefruit offers poetic event scores in the spirit of Cage's conceptual pieces. (AI reason)
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Brian Eno1948–
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His diaries and essays on ambient and generative music echo Cage's ideas on systems and listening. (AI reason)
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