Chamayou: Cage² album review – each piece is a brightly coloured gem
Every phrase is perfectly articulated on this revelatory record that reminds us of the composer’s intrinsic originality and vivid imagination
February 2024
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – huge, moving and full of surprises
‘There’s a certain madness to it’ … fans await new chord in John Cage gig with 616 years left to run
January 2024
Letter: Tony Oxley the experimenter
Gavin Bryars writes: The periods when I gave performances with my friend Tony Oxley were separated by 32 years
November 2023
Catherine Christer Hennix obituary
Letter(s) to Erik Satie album review – a gem of a collection
July 2023
Peter Dickinson obituary
Composer, academic and broadcaster who focused on American experimental music and pioneered the teaching of jazz in Britain
May 2023
Manchester Collective/Sean Shibe: Rosewood review – boundary-pushing and genre-defying
The combination of musical curiosity, exceptional playing and Zen-like atmosphere made for an electrifying start to this eight-concert tour
October 2022
Toy piano virtuoso Margaret Leng Tan: ‘I played Beethoven in Beethoven’s house – eat that, Schroeder’
The 76-year-old has played everything from toys to teapots to become a famed avant-garde musician. Ahead of Australian shows she speaks about her toy piano collection, OCD and believing in fate
June 2022
Other lives
Victor Schonfield obituary
Other lives: Jazz and avant-garde music enthusiast who set up a charity to promote his favourite kind of music
October 2021
Ken Dodd, Stockhausen and Psycho: unlocking Paul McCartney’s musical genius
When I was asked to collaborate with the former Beatle on a book, I gained a unique insight into the creative process behind the band’s biggest hits, writes Pulitzer-prize winning poet Paul Muldoon
August 2021
John Cage: Number Pieces review – revelatory take on ‘anarchic harmony’
How John Cage, the great disrupter, had the last laugh – by writing beautiful music
September 2020
Slowly does it: chord changes in John Cage's 639-year-long organ piece
Fans gather in a German church to hear the first new sound in John Cage’s composition, Organ/ASLSP, for six years
August 2020
A mushroom-related brush with mortality: how John Cage fell for fungi
Despite one foraging trip landing him in hospital, the avant garde composer held a lifelong passion for mycology
March 2020
Cunningham review – powerful 3D documentary about a dance pioneer
Now in 3D! Merce Cunningham's mind-blowing dance
December 2019
Artists assemble! How collectives took over the art world
They’re principled, they’re powerful and they make the art world jumpy. As the Turner prize is split four ways, we look at how collectives are shaking things up
January 2019
Mahan Esfahani review – fresh and provocative
Inspired by John Cage, the harpsichordist experimented with indeterminacy, played pulsating duets with prerecorded versions of himself, and consulted a computerised version of the I Ching
December 2018
What happened when I walked into the world's quietest place
Many have joined in the search for silence, but perhaps there is no such thing, writes Alex Wragge-Morley
