Quotes by Gavin Bryars - Page 1

Craft is part of the creative process.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Crafts
Creative
Creative Process
Process
Part
Craft
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Underground
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Bridges
Years
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
19th Century
Century
Writing
Tonal
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
People
Taken
Years
Years Ago
Seriously
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Composer
France
Hard Times
Composers
Hard Time
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Ensemble
Hard Times
Knows
French
Directing
Hard Time
John
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Assured
Years
Develop
Technically
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Instruments
Transition
Imperceptibly
Similarly
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I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Details
Orchestration
Pieces
Thinking
Currently
Time Thinking About
Detail
Piece
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Another Way
Feelings
Ordinary
Ordinary People
People
Touching
Music People Way
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I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Ideas
Way
Work Way Ideas
Flowing
Intended
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The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Academic
Festivals
Modern
Modern Music
New Music
Music Me New
Area
Attracts
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Space
Acoustics
Different
Acoustic
Bringing
Spaces
Titanic
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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.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Composer
Names
Prepared
Satisfying
Writing
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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Reacting
Younger Generation
Younger
Composers
French
Tonal
Vigour
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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.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Technology
Cds
Digital
Digital Technology
Europe
Hollywood
Labels
Plant
Understanding
Cd
European
Record
Mastering
Sceptical
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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.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Oboes
Saxophone
Thinking
Viola
Writing
Alto
Cross
Louder
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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.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Attending
Gifted
Paper
Peers
Specialists
Talking
University
Deliver
Seminar
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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.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Curious
Musician
Radio
Developed
Project
Initially
Piece
Sculptor
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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.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Men
Activity
Arrogant
Assertion
Ideas
Skills
Comprehensible
Developed
Necessarily
Skill
Somehow
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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.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Jesus
Blood
Glasses
Philip
Me Doing New
Assumed
Version
Cd
Me New Doing
Glass
Recording
Similar
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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.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Department
Laboratory
Mistake
New Work
Organisation
Research
Trying
Mistakes
Invest
Fail
Scientific
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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.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Art
College
Response
Theatre
Writing
Time Art Music
Visual
Alien
Collaborated
Art Time Music
Colleges
Context
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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.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Action
Cards
Development
Five
Manipulation
Musical
Preamble
Strict
Achieved
Apparently
Breaks
Descriptive
Minute
Parts
Revelation
Structural
Taking
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The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto "virtuosic" in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically.
Gavin Bryars / Composer
Music
Running
Beautiful
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