Marcel duchamp y john cage biography

50th Anniversary of "Reunion"

John Cage was an avant-garde composer who came to prominence in the 1950s and 60s. How avant-garde?

Marcel Duchamp & John Cage Play Musical Chess.

Marcel Duchamp & John Cage Play Musical Chess.

Born September 5, , in Los Angeles, he studied with the American composers Henry Cowell and Adolph Weiss and the Austrian-born composer Arnold Schoenberg.

Principal players were John Cage, who conceived (but did not actually.

The American composer John Cage (–), a central figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde, was the one pupil whom Arnold Schoenberg.

The author chronicles his involvement in Reunion, a collaborative performance featuring John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Teeny Duchamp, with electronic.

Well, his 1952 work called 4′33″ — a shorthand for "Four minutes, thirty-three seconds" — consists entirely of musicians on stage not playing their instruments. The ambient sounds of the environment and the audience is the piece.

Very Zen.

Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor, and quite a strong chessplayer.

Reunion premiered in 1968 in Toronto, when Cage played against Duchamp, who had taught Cage the game himself.

Duchamp, of course, was Master strength and had competed alongside Alexander Alekhine for the French Olympiad team in the 1930s, so he won the game in short order despite giving Cage knight odds. Unfortunately, there is no record of the moves, nor any film or video recording.

But, in any case, it was the resulting sound generated by the game that was interesting.

Recreation of the "Reunion" b