Gavin Bryars

Composer

1943-01-16

Quotes by Gavin Bryars

• 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.

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

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