Erik Satie lived, from 1897, in this building in the south Paris suburb of Arcueil. He moved there because it was cheaper than Montmartre (itself a cheap area at the time). Satie was so poor that he had to walk ten kilometers each day to Montmartre to work, as described in an interesting radio documentary called Erik Satie Walks To Work.
John Cage lived in the rear top-floor apartment of the building on the left, at 326 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, New York, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The building was demolished in 1953.
Here you can see Cage (and two Japanese musicians) in 1984 improvising with a feather and piezo-amplified cacti on a Nam June Paik TV show, anticipating Berlin trestle-table improv by 25 years.
