Instead of posting 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence whilst I seat myself at my keyboard, I decided to share the LA Times’ tributes: a storyboard of Cage’s life in LA, a selection of performances of his music, and a slate of events all over the world to commemorate him.

And by the by, as I write this I am seated about 3 blocks away from Good Samaritan Hospital, where Cage was born 100 years ago today.