Sofia Y. Petrunina
ISSN 2308-1333
Postgraduate student of the Moscow State P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory
e-mail sofi.petrunina@yandex.ru
Tan Dun and John Cage: creative parallels
Abstract
The article traces the influence of J. Cage on the aesthetic and philosophical views and works of the contemporary Chinese composer Tan Dun. The connection with Eastern philosophy, primarily Chan or Zen Buddhism, is reflected in the ideas of the unity of the sound world and sounding silence, noise music, indeterminism, and related aleatory music. Despite the inherently different views and approaches, Cage and Tan Dun come at similar ideas from different angles in their work.