John Cage

I was able to learn a lot about John Cage in another class I took at Gallatin with Leslie Satin, and he really was the essence of the happenings movement. He felt very strongly in the process of making art over the product created and often used chance operations to create compositions. In the video we say was one of his most famous creations, the prepared piano, which as the speaker explained, is really an instrument of its own. I got to see one of his pieces played on a prepared piano in an exibit at Lincoln Center, and it was bizarre, but it was great to hear the piano, the most classic instrument played in such an unconventional way.