Virginia Anderson is editor of the Journal of Experimental Music Studies (Jems). She has played and studied experimental music since she found John Cage's Silence in her local library in 1968. She is the author of British Experimental Music: Cornelius Cardew and His Contemporaries (1983; reprinted 2000) and (her doctoral thesis) Aspects of British Experimental Music as a Separate Art-Music Culture (2004).

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The composer Cornelius Cardew has been dead for almost twenty-five years, yet the integrity and the creative restlessness of his art, life and politics make him a figure of music's present, writes Virginia Anderson.

(This article was first published on 5 May 2006)