John Cage is best known for his contributions to the field of electronic and experimental music but has also produced prints, multiples and artist books. Cage has had a seminal influence on the world of music in the twentieth century and, in turn, has contributed towards the eradication of boundaries between creative disciplines.

Cage has composed works using the notion of ‘random operations’ and chance such as the roll of a die or fall of the Chinese I Ching stones. Accordingly, a unique ‘sound’ was achieved each time a composition was performed. Mozart mix 1991 is predicated on similar terms. The work is intended as an interactional piece in which the listener/composer may play the tapes at random, simultaneously, and for varying durations. The acoustic result of any combination is essentially random, determined only by the user’s choice. This kind of musical experimentation anticipated the current practice of mixing, scratching and sampling sounds and music from disparate sources.