Gavin Bryars
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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth16 January 1943
creative crafts process
Craft is part of the creative process.
space acoustics different
One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
transition instruments
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
technology cds understanding
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
musical cards development
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.
ideas way
I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
taken years people
People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
talking peers paper
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
art writing college
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.
years assured
Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
men skills ideas
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
hard-times france composer
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
festivals academic modern
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
surface
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.