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David Barrett reads his book "The Inner Life of Sound" to an otherworldly soundscape of low-fi sonic wallpaper - all created on his vintage Fender Stringmaster steel guitar with matching Fender Champ - appearing at appropriate and inappropriate intervals.

Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself - and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. "Remarkably researched, exquisitely written", Where the Heart Beats weaves together "a great many threads of cultural history" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s.