 In 1960 the composer was appointed a Fellow on the faculty of the Center for Advanced Studies (now the Center for Humanities) in the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wesleyan, where he started teaching classes in experimental music.In October 1961, Wesleyan University Press published "Silence", a collection of Cage's lectures and writings on a wide variety of subjects, including the famous "Lecture on Nothing" that was composed using a complex time length scheme, much like some of Cage's music.