dtgreene: So, what sort of instrument/ensemble do you like to write for the most?
(Also, this might be getting a bit off topic, but is John Cage's most famous work a piece of music? (Note that I am not asking whether it's good; I'm asking whether it's music in the first place.)
Well the thing is I started composing again recently after a 12 years hiatus, I quit composing back in 2004 because I wasn't happy with my music. Nothing from my old catalogue is worth listening to in its current state, so my plan is to rewrite whatever may work from the old stuff and then move on to new things. But I find hard to do any creative work nowadays, so in the last three years I've only managed to finish two movements from a piano sonata and three other piano solo pieces.
Before I quit in 2004, I had written for a varied combination of instruments: full orchestra, chamber music, solo instruments (mostly piano) and vocal works. A full list of my old compositions can still be read here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080117162129/http://www.krugosvetlov.com/music.htm But the audio files were not saved into the Archive.org website, so the links don't work. My old website has been closed since 2009, I think, so the stuff saved by the Archive.org is the only thing that remains of that project.
EDIT: I'm having a hard time trying to make the link work, it keeps ignoring the Archive.org part when you click on it. In order to work you have to copy/paste the full url instead of clicking the link.
As for the John Cage famous piece, I guess it's up to each listener to decide if the noise of a silent auditorium is music or if the composer is just having a laugh. Me, I'm not a big fan of conceptual art, but I still think it's a valid form of expression.
kai2: Krugos2,
Wow. That's some reality! I'm so sorry to hear about your situation and the current state of Venezuela. I can't imagine trying to stay creative in that instability. I also hope and pray my country didn't have a hand in that instability, but that I cannot say with any level of certainty. Wishing the best
Thanks for the kind words regarding my Country. And don't worry, no matter how much our government keeps blaming everyone else, this crisis is the inevitable consequence of 20 years of incompetent management (maybe even purposefully so) of a country and unhindered corruption. :(