Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

Brown died in 2002 of cancer in Rye New York. 1 - 3 CDs
Earle Brown - A Life in Music - Vol. This graphic style was more gestural and calligraphic than the geometric abstraction of December 1952'.

Earle Brown (December 26 1926 – July 2 2002) was an American composer who establiEarle Brownd his own formal and notational systems. Brown was the creator of open form a style of musical construction that has influenced many composers since—notably the downtown New York scene of the 1980s (see John Zorn) and generations of younger composers.