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The most influential and controversial American experimental composer of the 20th century, John Cage was the father of indeterminism, a Zen-inspired aesthetic which expelled all notions of choice from the creative process. Rejecting the most deeply held compositional principles of the past — logical consequence, vertical sensitivity, and tonality among them — Cage created a groundbreaking alternative to the serialist method, deconstructing traditions established hundreds and even thousands...