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John Milton Cage, Jr. He was one of the first composers or musicians to introduce different styles of music to popular culture. He made mostly avant-garde music and electronic music , and was very well known for making the piece 4'33" , which challenged what music is. He also wrote music for pianos that had been "prepared" by having screws and nails placed in them.

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This piece is in 3 movements sections , and is special in that all of the movements are silent, the score having the Latin word for silence three times tacit, tacit, tacit. Some people think that it is just a joke because of this, as there is nothing to listen to. It was written in , and is 4 minutes and thirty three seconds long.

Cage got the idea from being in a soundless chamber, but realising that even here there was no true silence because he could hear his heart beating. Contents move to sidebar hide. Page Talk. Read Change Change source View history. Tools Tools. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item.