the fairest of them all?

A few days ago John Mackey forwarded me an email about the John Cage Memorial Random Composer Award. (Dude, check out that picture of John Cage.) Ha! Thanks John! (Also, when I get my first paycheck from NKU, I'm going to make The Koi Pond to celebrate—it looks beautiful.) Anyway, the contest states:

"The John Cage Memorial Random Composer Award was inaugurated in 2011 in commemoration of John Cage's 99th birthday. The JCMRCA will be awarded to a single composer each year, whose biography and music will appear on this web page for the year.

ALL composers are encouraged to enter—ALL those who frame, manipulate, capture, appreciate, organize, and hear sounds as music. It is the intention of this competition to recognize a composer of any age, gender, race, nationality, sexuality, style, influence, education or creed. However, it must be a real person. Donald Duck may not win this competition. If the winner is found to be sufficiently inhuman, a second winner will be selected.

One compose…