Music and Time Annotation << Back RANDAL DAVIS « ... we need not fear ... » – Expressivity & Silence in the Early Work of John Cage в. Analecta Husserliana: The Aesthetic Discourse of the Arts. 2000. P. 241–250 A.N. Lipov American avant-garde composer of the early 20th century. John Cage (1912–1992) was an unusually inventive and iconic American avant-garde composer, writer, artist and philosopher in music whose influence, already deep, can be felt even today. In John Cage's nearly six decades as a composer, 1951 and 1952 provide a line of distinction for many of his research purposes. Cage's Piano Concerto Music of Change - Cage's first work, which was widely used for random operations, was first published, followed by «4′33» – a «silent» work, a «silent prayer» as Cage himself put it. And although his subsequent works and instrumental techniques of the composer implied new analytical means of studying music and increasing radical experimentalism, these compositions can be regarded as epochal, defining aesthetic and philosophical positions, thanks to which Cage became the most influential artist of the second half of the twentieth century. The article presents an investigation of examples of the phenomenon of «silence», «the ratio of sound to silence» and consciousness of time, as in these and other compositions of Cage. Keywords: phenomenology of silence, phenomenology of the body, experimental music by John Cage. Pp. 30-35.