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          Saying Something About John Cage

          As a young man in 1930s Los Angeles, Cage was a student of Arnold Schoenberg. Here was a clash of cultures: As described by Marjorie Perloff in her memoir, The Vienna Paradox, Cage was informal, non-judgmental, and Zen-like – a true Californian.

          His famous teacher, while admired, confronted Cage with the "gloom and paranoia" of his Viennese past.

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          While Schoenberg considered his pupil "an inventor – of genius", twelve-tone music would not become Cage’s paradigm.

          Cage was interested in noise, not the freeing of harmony. As he wrote in 1937: "Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise.

          When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

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          The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain."

          And Cage was interested in the Far East. In 1950s California, Asia wasn’t far away. San Francisco’s China Town saw Chinese opera on small stages next to dim sum joints; Indian philosophy and Zen Bud