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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
Alien
Art
Artists
Before
Colleges
Context
Had
Idea
Music
Painting
Performance
Pieces
Response
Taught
Theatre
Time
Visual
Whether
Works
Writing
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Craft is part of the creative process.
~ Gavin Bryars
Craft
Creative
Creative Process
Part
Process
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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
Am
Composer
Find
I Am
Name
Prepared
Put
Satisfying
Something
Which
Writing
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I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
~ Gavin Bryars
About
Currently
Detail
Every
Lot
Piece
Spend
Thinking
Time
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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
About
CD
Digital
Digital Technology
European
Friends
Hollywood
Labels
Mastering
Plant
Record
Technology
Understanding
Very
Who
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
~ Gavin Bryars
Directing
French
Had
Hard
Hard Time
John
John Adams
Know
Time
Very
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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
Being
Between
Cross
I Remember
Like
Louder
Me
Once
Remember
Saxophone
Started
Think
Viola
Writing
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I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
~ Gavin Bryars
Come
Fast
Flowing
Ideas
Intended
Keeping
Making
Out
Sure
Very
Way
Work
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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
Composers
French
Generation
Heard
Reacting
Though
Tonal
Who
Younger
Younger Generation
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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
Almost
Bad
Department
Fail
Having
Invest
Laboratory
Least
Like
Make
Makes
Mistakes
New
Organisation
Out
Research
Scientific
Sense
Some
Some Things
Things
Try
Will
Work
You
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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
Attending
Audience
Deliver
Few
Gifted
Like
Making
Music
One-Way
Paper
Peers
Rather
Seminar
Specialists
Talking
University
Way
Where
Who
You
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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
Achieved
Action
Apparently
Been
Breaks
Cards
Descriptive
Development
Five
Form
Has-Been
Like
Manipulation
Minute
Musical
Parts
Preamble
Revelation
Strict
Structural
Taking
Whole
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
~ Gavin Bryars
Bridges
History
Many
Music
Years
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
~ Gavin Bryars
Acoustic
Actually
Bringing
Different
Doing
New
One Thing
Recording
Spaces
Thing
Titanic
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
~ Gavin Bryars
Assured
Develop
Over
Something
Technically
Tried
Which
Years
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
~ Gavin Bryars
Been
Like
Part
People
Seriously
Taken
Would
Years
Years Ago
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
~ Gavin Bryars
Another
Instruments
Make
Set
Similarly
Transition
You
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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
20th Century
Activity
Arrogant
Assertion
Century
Comprehensible
Developed
Idea
Man
Music
Necessarily
Skill
Somehow
Street
True
Which
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
~ Gavin Bryars
American
Composers
France
Had
Hard
Hard Time
Pretty
Still
Time
Working
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The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
~ Gavin Bryars
Academic
Area
Attracts
Festivals
Me
Modern
Modern Music
Music
New
New Music
Something
Which
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16 January, 1943
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