This new edition of The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life has been completely updated by the author. It now covers the final year of Cage's life and incorporates more than twenty years of new scholarship. John Cage is considered one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. His work and ideas have influenced not only the world of music but also dance, painting, video art, printmaking and poetry, and he is a defining force in the whole climate of contemporary culture.  While paying close attention to Cage's inventions, such as the prepared piano, and his pioneering use of indeterminate notation and chance operations in composition (utilizing the I Ching), David Revill also illuminates Cage the performer, printmaker, watercolorist, expert mycologist, game show celebrity, political anarchist and macrobiotic cook.