We listen to the YCCB's version of John Cage's 4'33". Is there underpinning music surrounding us all the time? We listen to John Cage's lecture Composition as Process where he states that contemporary music is music that is NOW! How recording music freezes it, perhaps kills it. We are not afraid of silence during this podcast. Mr, Cage would be proud. We finish up with a wonderful percussion piece that shows the rich playfulness of his sound (or lack of). Lou Reed once said that John Cage taught him that EVERYTHING IS MUSIC.

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