After some consideration, Cage said that he realized it was possible “ to place in the hands of a single pianist the equivalent of an entire percussion orchestra ... With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard ” ( Cage and Charles, 38 ).

Cage pulled out of the movie because Aronofsky wanted Rourke to star, Aronofsky said, stating that Cage was " a complete gentleman, and he understood that my heart was with Mickey and he stepped aside.

Though Cage Rage promoter Andy Geer said that the UFC show would not affect ticket sales for CR21, the signing of Sapp was a clear sign that the company knew it would need a superstar draw in order to successfully compete with the American promotion.

Cage said in an interview that he was " always attracted to those passionate, almost unbridled romantic characters, and Sailor had that more than any other role I'd played ".

Cage said that " Joel and Ethan have a very strong vision and I've learned how difficult it is to accept another artist's vision.

In April 1944, Merce Cunningham accompanied his dance with music that was composed and performed by John Cage who said that Cunningham's dance " no longer relies on linear elements (...) nor does it rely on a movement towards and away from climax.

Additionally, many underground artists are said to have " intelligent ", " intricate ", or " complex " lyrics, these include Akir, Ugly Duckling, Brother Ali, Cage, Immortal Technique, El Da Sensei, Blackalicious, NCKF99, Mr. Lif, Andre Nickatina, Murs, Binary Star, Planet Asia, Lifesavas, Sage Francis, Kooley High, Sniped, Tah Phrum Duh Bush, Hustla Dreamz, Zion I, The Even Keel, Skidzz, Y Not Flow, Omega Jackson, All Names Were Taken, Timeless Truth, Yasiin Bey, Talib Kweli and Yak Ballz.

In an interview with Trackmarx, a punk and indie webzine, Penny Rimbaud of the anarcho-punk band Crass said that they were more influenced by classical composers Benjamin Britten, John Cage and the avant garde than rock ' n ' roll.

" Rolling Stones Peter Travers said of the film, " You may not buy the premise or the windup, but with Travolta and Cage taking comic and psychic measures of their characters and their own careers, there is no resisting Face / Off.

Cage said " What I wanted to do was to have the programs such that if twelve people were sitting in a row each one would be looking at a different opera.

Once Tomko returned from Japan, Cage offered Tomko a spot on Team Cage at Lockdown, but Tomko said he would not choose a team until he got a title shot at the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Dennis Hopper, the director of Easy Rider, said in the making-of documentary Shaking the Cage:

McCartney said the work was inspired by composers Stockhausen and John Cage.

Allen later said that Bird Wood Cage was the Wolfgang Press album he was most proud of.

Staying on the beat is central to rap's flow – many MCs note the importance of staying on-beat in How to Rap including Sean Price, Mighty Casey, Zion I, Vinnie Paz, Fredro Starr, Del The Funky Homosapien, Tech N9ne, People Under The Stairs, Twista, B-Real, Mr Lif, 2Mex, and Cage.

Thus, many call Sigil " The Bird Cage " or " The Cage.

Among many works created for the company, Tudor composed Soundings: Ocean Diary ( 1994 ), the electronic component of Ocean, which was conceived by John Cage and Merce Cunningham, with choreography by Merce Cunningham, orchestral music by Andrew Culver, and design by Marsha Skinner.

Boulez was in contact with many composers who would become influential, including John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Membership in the school is not generally extended to Schoenberg's many pupils in the United States from 1933, such as John Cage, Leon Kirchner and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a greater remove, wrote compositions evocative of the Second Viennese style, such as the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.

Following STP's 2008 reunion, many younger bands of that time period performed with the band, including Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Cage the Elephant, and Hurt.

He credited Henry Cowell and, to a lesser extent, Erik Satie, for contributing to the idea, but it is unclear if Cage was aware of many other precedents described below.

The origins of Fluxus lie in many of the concepts explored by composer John Cage in his experimental music of the 1950s.

The most commonly cited include the series of Chamber's Street loft concerts, New York, curated by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young in 1961 featuring pieces by Jackson Mac Low and Henry Flynt, the month-long Yam festival held in upstate New York by George Brecht and Robert Watts in May, 1963 with Ray Johnson and Allan Kaprow that was the culmination of a year's worth of Mail Art pieces, and a series of concerts held in Mary Bauermeister's studio, Cologne, 1960-61 featuring Nam June Paik and John Cage amongst many others.

Starting with 14 concerts between 1 and 23 September 1962, at Wiesbaden, these Fluxfests presented work by musicians such as John Cage, Ligeti, Penderecki, Terry Riley and Brion Gysin alongside performance pieces written by Dick Higgins, George Brecht and Nam June Paik amongst many others.

Through Cage, Feldman met many other prominent figures in the New York arts scene, among them Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston and Frank O ' Hara.

In October 2005, many scenes of prominent locations in town were shot for the film World Trade Center, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Oliver Stone, with Glen Rock having had 11 residents who were killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In 1978, Anderson performed at The Nova Convention, a major conference involving many counter-culture figures and rising avant-garde musical stars, including William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary, Malcolm Goldstein, John Cage, and Allen Ginsberg.

Out of the cult Saturday morning shows that were focused on, Tiswas was significantly the most prominent, with many clips shown from it, and even a re-enactment of two Tiswas staples-the Cage and the Pass The Pie game.

He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts including Gertrude Stein, Marshall McLuhan, artists John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Claes Oldenburg, Ray Johnson, Bern Porter, leading Fluxus members George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, Ken Friedman, and others.

Charlotte Moorman Garside was involved with the Fluxus movement of avant-garde and performance art and was a friend and associate of many well-known artists of the late twentieth century, including Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Byrd, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Jim McWilliams and others.

Many of the later 20th century composers in various modernist and minimalist styles came from outside of New York City, such as John Cage from Los Angeles, though many studied, performed or conducted in New York, the center for American music.

His works include solo performance pieces such as Endangered Species, TransDadaExpress, and Shofar ; radio works such as Crystal Psalms, Un Altro Ferragosto, I Dreamt John Cage Yodeling at the Zurich Hauptbahnhof, and Living Room Music ; large scale musical choreographic works such as Oh Brass on the Grass Alas, for 300 amateur brass-band musicians, and the Maritime Rites series of performances on and near water ; sound installation works such as Magic Carpet, Floor Plan, The Twentieth Century, and Gardening with John ; chamber music such as For Cornelius for piano, the trio Schtyx, the string quartet VSTO, the saxophone quartet Electric Rags II, the percussion quartet THEME PARK, a series of works for chorus SATB, and the work for chamber orchestra and video Circus Maximus ; and many collaborative dance and theater works.

During this period, the college supported work by John Cage, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Fielding Dawson, Cy Twombly, Jonathan Williams, Ed Dorn, Stan Brakhage and many other members of the 1950s American avant garde.

As a result of its location, it grew mainly as a staging post with many coaching inns and has an 18th century one cell prison known as ' The Cage ' by the ford at the end of Church Street.

It predates similarly silent but intellectually serious works by John Cage and Erwin Schulhoff by many years.

With encouragement from Cage, Feldman began to write pieces that had no relation to compositional systems of the past, such as the constraints of traditional harmony or the serial technique.

Feldman's experiments with the use of chance in his composition in turn inspired John Cage to write pieces like the Music of Changes, where the notes to be played are determined by consulting the I Ching.

Legrand has also recorded classical piano pieces by Erik Satie and American composers such as Amy Beach, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, John Cage, and Conlon Nancarrow.

Select pieces from the artist Marcel Duchamp and the composer John Cage characterize this.

Pierre Boulez applied the term in this sense to his own pieces to distinguish them from the indeterminate music of John Cage.

While Boulez purposefully composed his pieces to allow the performer certain liberties with regard to the sequencing and repetition of parts, Cage often composed through the application of chance operations without allowing the performer liberties.

Cage relates several anecdotes about Wolff in his one-minute Indeterminacy pieces.

Miller then contacted Martin Swope, with whom he had earlier written some John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen-inspired pieces for piano and tape.

Tyranny began his performance career in high school, playing pieces by major composers ( such as John Cage ) with Philip Krumm in a concert series in San Antonio.

Performances such as Devachan and the Monads, Dwarf of Oblivion, which took place at the Kitchen Center for Performance Art, and a special tribute to John Cage in Central Park, have taken performance art to new levels with the addition of fully improvised large scale performance pieces.

The music of Scelsi was heard by millions in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island in which excerpts of his two pieces " Quattro pezzi su una nota sola " ( which does not appear on the soundtrack of the film ) and " Uaxuctum: The Legend Of The Mayan City Which They Themselves Destroyed For Religious Reasons – 3rd Movement " were featured in the film alongside the music of his contemporaries György Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, John Cage and Morton Feldman.

A 1978 work by American avant-garde composer John Cage, Some of the " Harmony of Maine ", is a collection of organ pieces based on compositions from The Harmony of Maine.

Other noteworthy pieces were composed during the 1930s and 40s, particularly on the West Coast of America by composers Henry Cowell, John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Johanna Beyer.

Some of his performance art pieces include Border Brujo ( 1988 – 89 ), The Couple in the Cage ( 1992 – 93 ), The Cruci-fiction project ( 1994 ), The Temple of Confessions ( 1995 – 96 ), The Mexterminator Project ( 1997 – 99 ), The Living Museum of Fetishized Identities ( 1999 – 2002 ) and the Mapa / Corpo series ( 2004 – 2008 ) His performances often involve audience participation, elaborate costuming and environments, interactive technologies and other collaborators, including Roberto Sifuentes, James Luna, Violeta Luna, Coco Fusco, Michelle Ceballos, Maria Estrada, Emma Tramposch, Antonio Turok, Demián Flores, Reverend Billy, and Tania Bruguera.

Cage dedicated two pieces to Sultan.

Cage did not want the soundtrack to be composed of generic orchestral pieces in the vein of John Williams or Carmina Burana, but instead be more emotional and atmospheric, something that he felt Badalamenti achieved.