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
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The transition from one form of percussion to another and the ways in which it's possible to blur those distinctions is quite interesting.
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I would also like the soloist to feel happy to put it in front of the public, because in the end he's on the firing line, not me.
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I did that as a personal journey when I was a philosophy student and working as a jazz musician, so I moved from philosphy to music.
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Philips did stipulate that Julian and I had to iron out our relationship. I had to could come up with something we would both be happy with.
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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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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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As much as mixing instruments, I'm also mixing acoustic space so the music will travel through some different sorts of environments.
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My thinking in this was as follows: in all the versions I had made everything that is played serves to accompany and support the old man's voice.
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The ideal, of course, is to have the respect of professionals and the admiration of amateurs. I suppose this was the case in the past.
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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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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
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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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I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.