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John Cage

Lo-fi Beats for Work or Study

by Hari Kunzru,

I’ve written in many places, some wonderful, others makeshift or uncomfortable. I’ve written on trains and in hotel rooms, at ergonomically perfect desks and on laptops balanced on my knees.…

Ars Oblivionalis

by Lewis Hyde,

From A Primer for Forgetting, out this month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. anti-mnemonicsUmberto Eco writes that “once, as a joke, some friends and I invented advertisements for university positions…

There are Other Forces at Work

by John Darnielle,

John Cage comes to Halberstadt

Introducing the January Issue

by Christopher Cox,

Alan Lightman, John Darnielle, Art Spiegelman, Anne Carson, and more.

Serving the moderns

by Harper’s Staff,

Twenty years of electronic music

by Harper’s Staff,

Does anybody need the avant-garde?

by Harper’s Staff,

Score for BK 50

by Harold C. Schonberg,

44 by John Cage

Score for BB by John Cage

by Harold C. Schonberg,

From concert for piano and orchestra

The far-out pianist

by Harold C. Schonberg,

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