The avant-garde composer and Black Mountain College teacher John Cage invented new performance methods and compositional processes. Nancy Perloff, curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute, discusses Cage's use of chance operations to develop works that would transform music in the 20th century. Pianist Aron Kallay performs elements from scores Cage collaborated on with David Tudor.

In conjunction with the exhibition Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 (2016).