Nuts and bolts make music for John Cage
… Cage is 33, has freckles, and lives and works six flights up, on the top floor of an East Side tenement house that commands a view of the East River Drive on one side and Grand Street on the other. He has been writing ultra-modern music for 10 years, but it is only in the last year or two that he has begun to receive widespread recognition.
Cage’s major contribution to musical composition, he told us, has been to eliminate harmony. When he finally decided six years or so ago, that that was what he wanted to do, he was confronted with the problem of finding non-harmonic instruments…