experiences isn’t what we do. It’s that sense of discovering the hidden that the amateur mycologist found so thrilling about mushroom hunting. The pages of the Mushroom Book — a collaboration with ...

Visitors and journalists have been coming to see the organ in the Burchardi Church to witness the sound change in the world's slowest piece of music. Matthias Bein/dpa Twenty-two years into the ...

No matter whether you prefer jazz, country, or rock and roll, most interesting songs have a bunch of chord changes that come and go throughout the bop’s roughly three-minute runtime. Those tuning into ...

Volunteers from the John Cage Organ Foundation conducting an earlier chord change in October 2013 Peter Förster / Picture Alliance via Getty Images An organ tasked with playing a musical composition ...

"He is probably the most controversial figure in the musical world today and when you hear his performance, if you will forgive me, you'll understand why." “I consider music the production of sound, ...

Today, in the German town of Halberstadt, an organ performing a piece of music by the late American composer John Cage struck a new chord for the first time in two years. Here it is. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

In his “Europeras,” Cage dismantled centuries of tradition and expectations, for musicians and audiences alike. A rare revival is coming to Detroit. By Joshua Barone The start was typical: Oper ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. By now, the accomplishments of Cage’s busy and long life are well known. By now, the accomplishments of Cage’s ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. So it’s technically ...