John Cage
Explore the philosophies of John Cage and what you think of his ideas as evidenced in some of the specific compositions he constructed. ... He was John Cage, a minimalist and an avant-garde developer of the percussion orchestra, the prepared piano, the happening, aleatory, or chance, composition, performance art, and music as extended silence. The composer John Cage rejected the compositional practices of the past to explore a new world of musical sound and structure. ... Fascinated by percussion instruments, Cage experimented with different musical sounds and noises in musical composition, using tin cans, cowbells, a lions roar, a cricket caller, and similar nonmusical devices.