University of Huddersfield have launched cageconcert.org, a new website plus two apps exploring John Cage’s Concert For Piano And Orchestra. The site features interviews, films, performances, text and images that focus on the concert and issues relating to instrumental technique, notation and performance.

Of the apps, Solo For Piano was developed by Dr Christopher Melen and examines Cage’s 63 page graphic score. It allows users to select notations and generate randomised and manual realisations that can be saved and printed. Developed by Stuart Mellor, the Concert Player app allows users to create both randomised and tailored performances of Concert For Piano And Orchestra. Sounds on the app were recorded by Apartment House and can be manipulated by instrument types, silences, durations and sequences. Also included is a download of the full 189 minute performance of Solo For Piano by Philip Thomas.

Funded by AHRC, the project kicked off in 2017 with a recording of CC by Philip Thomas and Apartment House released by Huddersfield Contemporary Records. Forthcoming is a book by Martin Iddon and Philip Thomas to be published by OUP in May 2020.