 Culver worked for 11 years with John Cage, helping to realize his compositional and poetic works and direct his operas and installations.Culver's largest work is "Ocean 1—133" (1994, 2006), the orchestral component of "Ocean", which was conceived by John Cage and Merce Cunningham, with choreography by Merce Cunningham, electronic music by David Tudor, and design by Marsha Skinner.Culver develops databases and software to realize his work and to make chance operations accessible to others.