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John Cage is a Classical and Electronic act. Their sound grew out of Henry Cowell and Erwin Schulhoff. Those roots explain a lot about how John Cage arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse, Anton Webern, Arvo Pärt and Alban Berg, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Mission of Burma, Dada Life, Aphex Twin, Gary Wilson and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 52 connections around John Cage, reaching back through Henry Cowell and forward to Mission of Burma. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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John Cage connections
John Cage grew out of Henry Cowell and Erwin Schulhoff, shares an orbit with Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse, Anton Webern and Arvo Pärt, went on to shape Mission of Burma, Dada Life, Aphex Twin and Gary Wilson. 52 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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