Quotes by Gavin Bryars

About Gavin Bryars:

Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

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Craft is part of the creative process.

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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

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The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.

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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.

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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

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I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

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Author Bio

  • NameGavin Bryars
  • DescriptionBritish musician
  • BornJanuary 16, 1943
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionComposer; Musicologist
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