Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. Gavin Bryars More Quotes by Gavin Bryars More Quotes From Gavin Bryars There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. Gavin Bryars touching feelings people 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 music running beautiful Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. Gavin Bryars bridges years 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 oboes writing thinking What was once underground is now coming to the surface. Gavin Bryars surface The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. Gavin Bryars modern festivals academic Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. Gavin Bryars composer france hard-times 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 skills men ideas Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured. Gavin Bryars assured years 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 college writing art 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 peers paper talking People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago. Gavin Bryars taken people years I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended. Gavin Bryars way ideas 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 musical development cards 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 cds technology europe Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly. Gavin Bryars instruments transition One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces. Gavin Bryars acoustics different space Craft is part of the creative process. Gavin Bryars crafts creative process I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece. Gavin Bryars details pieces thinking I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. Gavin Bryars composer names writing
