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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.

08/29/2026

David Tudor premiered John Cage’s iconic 4’33” on this day in 1952 at the Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock, NY.

On this anniversary, the John Cage Trust invites all of you to stop, listen, and enjoy the “silence.”

08/20/2026

TODAY!!

AUGUST 20, 3–4pm ET

Chance Encounters with John Cage:
CAGE ORGAN PROJECT: ORGAN²/ASLSP
with Anneli Borgmann and Moritz Cordes

Free, on Zoom!

Register from the LinkTree in our Bio or on the johncage.org websiet

08/17/2026

THIS THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 3–4pm ET

Chance Encounters with John Cage:
CAGE ORGAN PROJECT: ORGAN²/ASLSP
with Anneli Borgmann and Moritz Cordes

Free, on Zoom!

Register from the LinkTree in our Bio or on the johncage.org website

08/01/2026

Transform mistakes into progress, misinformation into facts.

—John Cage

07/09/2026

TODAY

Chance Encounters with John Cage: POINTS IN SPACE with JEFF ARNAL.

Join us for a free Zoom event with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center's Executive Director, Jeff Arnal, will discuss the recent "Points in Space" exhibition.

Register through the Linktree in our bio.
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Black Mountain College’s interdisciplinary and collaborative philosophy fostered groundbreaking time-based experiments across disciplines, significantly influencing performance, theater, film, music, dance, and visual art worldwide. Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College featured visual and time-based artworks that echo BMC’s innovative spirit from 1933 to 1957. BMC was a nexus of avant-garde activity, fostering innovation through collaboration and experiential learning. The exhibition will highlight key events and figures, such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Lou Harrison, Roland Hayes, Ray Johnson, Hugo Kauder, Ursula Mamlok, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, Alma Stone Williams, Stan Vanderbeek, and Stefan Wolpe, alongside movements like Bauhaus, Dada, and Fluxus. The exhibition featured historical and contemporary works, interactive installations, performances, and immersive experiences that bring the past into conversation with the present.

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Jeff Arnal is a percussionist, curator, and arts leader whose work explores the intersections of experimental music, performance, improvisation, and contemporary art. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe with a wide range of musicians and dancers, releasing recordings on labels including NoBusiness, Mahakala Music, Clean Feed, and Leo Records. Since 2016, he has served as Executive Director of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, North Carolina, where he has expanded the museum's exhibitions, performances, publications, and artist residencies while advancing the enduring legacy of Black Mountain College. His current research and curatorial work examines the role of performance in the College's history and its continuing influence on contemporary artistic practice.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center

07/05/2026

THIS THURSDAY

Chance Encounters with John Cage: POINTS IN SPACE with JEFF ARNAL.

Join us for a free Zoom event with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center's Executive Director, Jeff Arnal, will discuss the recent "Points in Space" exhibition.

Register through the Linktree in our bio.
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Black Mountain College’s interdisciplinary and collaborative philosophy fostered groundbreaking time-based experiments across disciplines, significantly influencing performance, theater, film, music, dance, and visual art worldwide. Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College featured visual and time-based artworks that echo BMC’s innovative spirit from 1933 to 1957. BMC was a nexus of avant-garde activity, fostering innovation through collaboration and experiential learning. The exhibition will highlight key events and figures, such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Lou Harrison, Roland Hayes, Ray Johnson, Hugo Kauder, Ursula Mamlok, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, Alma Stone Williams, Stan Vanderbeek, and Stefan Wolpe, alongside movements like Bauhaus, Dada, and Fluxus. The exhibition featured historical and contemporary works, interactive installations, performances, and immersive experiences that bring the past into conversation with the present.

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Jeff Arnal is a percussionist, curator, and arts leader whose work explores the intersections of experimental music, performance, improvisation, and contemporary art. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe with a wide range of musicians and dancers, releasing recordings on labels including NoBusiness, Mahakala Music, Clean Feed, and Leo Records. Since 2016, he has served as Executive Director of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, North Carolina, where he has expanded the museum's exhibitions, performances, publications, and artist residencies while advancing the enduring legacy of Black Mountain College. His current research and curatorial work examines the role of performance in the College's history and its continuing influence on contemporary artistic practice.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center

07/02/2026

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY

Chance Encounters with John Cage: POINTS IN SPACE with JEFF ARNAL.

Join us for a free Zoom event with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center's Executive Director, Jeff Arnal, will discuss the recent "Points in Space" exhibition.

Register through the Linktree in our bio.
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Black Mountain College’s interdisciplinary and collaborative philosophy fostered groundbreaking time-based experiments across disciplines, significantly influencing performance, theater, film, music, dance, and visual art worldwide. Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College featured visual and time-based artworks that echo BMC’s innovative spirit from 1933 to 1957. BMC was a nexus of avant-garde activity, fostering innovation through collaboration and experiential learning. The exhibition will highlight key events and figures, such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Lou Harrison, Roland Hayes, Ray Johnson, Hugo Kauder, Ursula Mamlok, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, Alma Stone Williams, Stan Vanderbeek, and Stefan Wolpe, alongside movements like Bauhaus, Dada, and Fluxus. The exhibition featured historical and contemporary works, interactive installations, performances, and immersive experiences that bring the past into conversation with the present.

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Jeff Arnal is a percussionist, curator, and arts leader whose work explores the intersections of experimental music, performance, improvisation, and contemporary art. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe with a wide range of musicians and dancers, releasing recordings on labels including NoBusiness, Mahakala Music, Clean Feed, and Leo Records. Since 2016, he has served as Executive Director of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, North Carolina, where he has expanded the museum's exhibitions, performances, publications, and artist residencies while advancing the enduring legacy of Black Mountain College. His current research and curatorial work examines the role of performance in the College's history and its continuing influence on contemporary artistic practice.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center

07/01/2026

Nichi Nichi Kore Ko Nichi (Every Day is a Beautiful Day)

—John Cage

06/24/2026

TODAY

Chance Encounters with John Cage: JAMES PRITCHETT on LECTURE ON NOTHING

Join us for a free Zoom event with John Cage scholar James Pritchett to discuss Cage's iconic performance text!

Register through Eventbrite.

John Cage's "Lecture on Nothing," which became widely known through its publication in SILENCE (1961, Wesleyan University Press), remains one of his most iconic works, featuring his oft quoted line, "I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it." This conversation precedes the John Cage Trust's upcoming immersive, group performance of the "Lecture on Nothing," that will take place on Saturday, June 27th, at 1pm ET at Bard College as part of CAGECIRCLE. The performance will be livestreamed through WGXC/Wave Farm.

James Pritchett's THE MUSIC OF JOHN CAGE constitutes one of the greatest singular achievements in Cage scholarship, indispensable for learning how Cage's music works and how he wrote it.

06/22/2026

THIS WEDNESDAY

Chance Encounters with John Cage: JAMES PRITCHETT on LECTURE ON NOTHING

Join us for a free Zoom event with John Cage scholar James Pritchett to discuss Cage's iconic performance text!

Register through Eventbrite.

John Cage's "Lecture on Nothing," which became widely known through its publication in SILENCE (1961, Wesleyan University Press), remains one of his most iconic works, featuring his oft quoted line, "I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it." This conversation precedes the John Cage Trust's upcoming immersive, group performance of the "Lecture on Nothing," that will take place on Saturday, June 27th, at 1pm ET at Bard College as part of CAGECIRCLE. The performance will be livestreamed through WGXC/Wave Farm.

James Pritchett's THE MUSIC OF JOHN CAGE constitutes one of the greatest singular achievements in Cage scholarship, indispensable for learning how Cage's music works and how he wrote it.

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