John Cage Trust

John Cage Trust The John Cage Trust furthers the legacy of late American composer John Cage by gathering together, organizing, preserving, and disseminating his work.

We are guided not so much by what Cage has done but, rather, by what Cage’s legacy is doing now.

Coming up June 11!JOYCE / CAGEJoin us at Time & Space Limited in Hudson, NY, Thursday, June 11th at 7pm, for an evening ...
06/02/2026

Coming up June 11!

JOYCE / CAGE

Join us at Time & Space Limited in Hudson, NY, Thursday, June 11th at 7pm, for an evening featuring film excerpts of One Little Goat Theatre's FINNEGANS WAKE project, plus a performance of Joyce songs by John Cage.

Buy tickets from the Linktree in our Bio.

"Joyce is good. He is a good writer. People like him because he is incomprehensible and anybody can understand him."
—Gertrude Stein

A special event, just in time for Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce! . . .

Since 2023, ”Toronto’s enterprising One Little Goat Theatre Company" (The New York Times) has been filming all 17 chapters (30 Hours) of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake before live audiences in various cities and locations, screening and releasing each chapter as completed, marking this as the first "audio-video book" of Joyce’s extraordinary novel. They will complete the film project in time for the 90th anniversary of the book’s publication, May 4, 2029.

John Cage loved Finnegans Wake and created multiple works engaging with it, from what became a beloved staple of the Cunningham Dance Company, Roaratorio, to his several “writings through” of Finnegans Wake performance texts, to individual songs.

The John Cage Trust invites you to an evening at Time & Space Limited featuring excerpts from the first five filmed chapters of One Little Goat Theatre’s monumental Finnegans Wake project, presented by Director Adam Seelig and featuring virtuousic peformances by Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte. Intended to be heard as much as read, Joyce’s 628-page novel is essentially impossible to read, and yet Dublin-born actor Richard Harte has a remarkable knack for it. The evening will also include a performance of a set of John Cage songs related to Finnegans Wake, performed by soprano Jaclyn Hopping, accompanied by John Cage Trust Executive Director Jeffrey Lependorf, who will also join Adam Seelig in conversation.

Time and Space Limited One Little Goat Theatre Company The James Joyce Centre Dublin

Beware of anything that is breathtakingly beautiful, for at any moment the telephone may ring or the airplane come down...
06/01/2026

Beware of anything that is breathtakingly beautiful, for at any moment the telephone may ring or the airplane come down in a vacant lot.

—John Cage

COMING SOON:JOYCE / CAGEJoin us at Time & Space Limited in Hudson, NY, Thursday, June 11 at 7pm, for an evening featurin...
05/31/2026

COMING SOON:
JOYCE / CAGE

Join us at Time & Space Limited in Hudson, NY, Thursday, June 11 at 7pm, for an evening featuring film excerpts of One Little Goat Theatre's FINNEGANS WAKE project, plus a performance of Joyce songs by John Cage.

Buy tickets from the Linktree in our bio!

"Joyce is good. He is a good writer. People like him because he is incomprehensible and anybody can understand him."
—Gertrude Stein

A special event, just in time for Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce! . . .

Since 2023, ”Toronto’s enterprising One Little Goat Theatre Company" (The New York Times) has been filming all 17 chapters (30 Hours) of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake before live audiences in various cities and locations, screening and releasing each chapter as completed, marking this as the first "audio-video book" of Joyce’s extraordinary novel. They will complete the film project in time for the 90th anniversary of the book’s publication, May 4, 2029.

John Cage loved Finnegans Wake and created multiple works engaging with it, from what became a beloved staple of the Cunningham Dance Company, Roaratorio, to his several “writings through” of Finnegans Wake performance texts, to individual songs.

The John Cage Trust invites you to an evening at Time & Space Limited featuring excerpts from the first five filmed chapters of One Little Goat Theatre’s monumental Finnegans Wake project, presented by Director Adam Seelig and featuring virtuousic peformances by Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte. Intended to be heard as much as read, Joyce’s 628-page novel is essentially impossible to read, and yet Dublin-born actor Richard Harte has a remarkable knack for it. The evening will also include a performance of a set of John Cage songs related to Finnegans Wake, performed by soprano Jaclyn Hopping, accompanied by John Cage Trust Executive Director Jeffrey Lependorf, who will also join Adam Seelig in conversation.

Time and Space Limited One Little Goat Theatre Company The James Joyce Centre Dublin

TODAY!Chance Encounters with John Cage: ED McKEON on CURATORIAL COMPOSING Join us for a free Zoom discussion on "curator...
05/21/2026

TODAY!
Chance Encounters with John Cage: ED McKEON on CURATORIAL COMPOSING

Join us for a free Zoom discussion on "curatorial composing," focusing on works by John Cage, Heiner Goebbels, Pauline Oliveros, and others.

Register through Eventbrite!

“Curatorial composing” is curatorial producer and researcher Ed McKeon’s term for the way John Cage shifts attention from musical works to musical encounters, and the consequences that follow. Rather than follow the hierarchical flow of composer, then performer, then listener, curatorial composition distributes the responsibility from that model to a situation in which all are equally present and responsible for the meaning of an encounter. This means that these compositions are neither anchored in historical time nor suited to “Historically Informed Performance” in the sense of a reconstruction.

THIS THURSDAYChance Encounters with John Cage: ED McKEON on CURATORIAL COMPOSING Join us for a free Zoom discussion on "...
05/18/2026

THIS THURSDAY
Chance Encounters with John Cage: ED McKEON on CURATORIAL COMPOSING

Join us for a free Zoom discussion on "curatorial composing," focusing on works by John Cage, Heiner Goebbels, Pauline Oliveros, and others.

Register through Eventbrite!

“Curatorial composing” is curatorial producer and researcher Ed McKeon’s term for the way John Cage shifts attention from musical works to musical encounters, and the consequences that follow. Rather than follow the hierarchical flow of composer, then performer, then listener, curatorial composition distributes the responsibility from that model to a situation in which all are equally present and responsible for the meaning of an encounter. This means that these compositions are neither anchored in historical time nor suited to “Historically Informed Performance” in the sense of a reconstruction.

These pieces (and we as listener-observers) are always undergoing change. Curatorial composing is post-canonic. It invites us to experience and understand historical time and historical significance differently.

ONE WEEK FROM TODAYChance Encounters with John Cage: ED McKEON on CURATORIAL COMPOSING Join us for a free Zoom discussio...
05/14/2026

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY

Chance Encounters with John Cage: ED McKEON on CURATORIAL COMPOSING

Join us for a free Zoom discussion on "curatorial composing," focusing on works by John Cage, Heiner Goebbels, Pauline Oliveros, and others.

Register on Eventbrite!

“Curatorial composing” is curatorial producer and researcher Ed McKeon’s term for the way John Cage shifts attention from musical works to musical encounters, and the consequences that follow. Rather than follow the hierarchical flow of composer, then performer, then listener, curatorial composition distributes the responsibility from that model to a situation in which all are equally present and responsible for the meaning of an encounter. This means that these compositions are neither anchored in historical time nor suited to “Historically Informed Performance” in the sense of a reconstruction.

These pieces (and we as listener-observers) are always undergoing change. Curatorial composing is post-canonic. It invites us to experience and understand historical time and historical significance differently.

Exemplified in many ways by Cage, this approach means that musical composition need no longer be limited to organizing sound, but can extend to text, typography, movement, visual elements ,etc. Contrary to visual art histories in which visual art loses its “medium specificity” to become “post-conceptual,” Cage shows that music can occur in and across any medium.
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Ed McKeon is a curatorial producer and researcher concerned with rewiring relations between gallery arts and post-experimental musics. His work addresses the meaningful articulation of time in artistic practice and production, and how musical and more-than-musical practices create time-bound public spheres or communities of relative strangers. He operates in the zone where music indisciplines others—theatre, book, installation, or performance—collaborating with artists from Pauline Oliveros to Tin Men and the Telephone, and Elaine Mitchener to Brian Eno. His book Heiner Goebbels and Curatorial Composing After Cage was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. He lectures on Music Management and Curation at Goldsmiths, University of London.

[Pictured L to R, Ed McKeon, Louis Andriessen's "Die Materie," and Heiner Goebbels' stagings of Cage's "Europeras" and ]

TODAY!Join us today at Bard College's Stevenson Library from 12-2pm to select objects from collections across the Bard N...
04/23/2026

TODAY!

Join us today at Bard College's Stevenson Library from 12-2pm to select objects from collections across the Bard Network using John Cage's chance procedures to be shown in CAGECIRCLE: COMPOSITION FOR AN EXHIBITION, showing at Stevenson Library (1 Library Rd, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY) for Upstate Art Weekend 2026 (June 25–28). A special opening performance will take place on the 27th at 1pm.

We are thrilled to be partnering with Bard’s Stevenson Library for this project.

Learn Cage's chance procedures and be the first to know what objects will actually appear in the show!

Bard College Stevenson Library at Bard College Upstate Art Weekend

Alys Moody's class on "The Literary Archive" spent time with us at the John Cage Trust, looking at some of our literary ...
04/22/2026

Alys Moody's class on "The Literary Archive" spent time with us at the John Cage Trust, looking at some of our literary archive holdings and chatting about using chance as a tool for curation. Thank you, Alys and students!

Bard College

TODAY!Wednesday, April 22nd, 3–4pm ET on Zoom. For this Poetry Month edition of CHANCE ENCOUNTERS WITH JOHN CAGE, we loo...
04/22/2026

TODAY!

Wednesday, April 22nd, 3–4pm ET on Zoom.

For this Poetry Month edition of CHANCE ENCOUNTERS WITH JOHN CAGE, we look at the work of poet Jackson Mac Low and his relationship with John Cage. Poets Anne Tardos, Charles Bernstein, and Craig Dworkin discuss Cage and Mac Low, their mutual influences, and read from Mac Low's work.

This FREE virtual event is hosted by the John Cage Trust. Join us on Zoom for this incredible conversation by registering from the Linktree in our bio or through Eventbrite! ✨🔗

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