John Cage (1912-1992)


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Caged/Uncaged - A Rock/Experimental Homage To John Cage (1993)



  1. David Byrne – Cage And The Long Island Expressway / Enlightened Whistler 0:31/ 4:24
  2. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 1 0:17
  3. Debbie Harry* – In Just-Spring 1:05
  4. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 2 0:55
  5. Arto Lindsay – Proust 2:42
  6. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 3 0:39
  7. Ars Hell And Mutt – John Cage Descending 0:33
  8. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 4 0:31
  9. John Zorn – Verlaine: Part 2 La Bleue 5:57
  10. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 5 0:31
  11. Chris Stein – Right In The Head 0:59
  12. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 6 0:24
  13. Amy Denio – Dishwasher 4:08
  14. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 7 0:55
  15. David Weinstein And Shelley Hirsch – Cheap Imitation 4:00
  16. Lee Ranaldo – 329 Overtones For John Cage 2:59
  17. Ann Magnuson And John Cale – Helmut Newton Told Me 2:00 / Wish You Were Here 0:30
  18. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 8 0:21
  19. Jello Biafra And Eugene Chadbourne – Overpopulation And Art 3:57
  20. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 9 0:14
  21. Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music [An Excerpts From] 3:32
  22. Elliott Sharp – InDET 4:33
  23. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 10 0:38
  24. Joey Ramone – The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs 2:21
  25. John Cage – John Cage Excerpt # 11 0:22


Executive Producer [Mudima Foundation] – Gino Di Maggio
Executive Producer [The Institute For Contemporary Art] – Alanna Heiss
Other [Art Direction] – Alfredo Tisocco
Other [Coordinator] – Lokke Highstein
Producer – John Cale

Issued for the XLV Biennale di Venezia with support from The Institute For Contemporary Art, New York, Mudima Fondazione per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.

All John Cage excerpts are from John Cage's Silence and A Year from Monday, recorded at 222 Bowery in New York City, December 1968 [wrongly on sleeve as 1986] and March 1969, courtesy of Giorno Poetry Systems.