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Gavin Bryars Quotes

English - Composer | January 16, 1943 -

Craft is part of the creative process.

Creative Process Craft Part

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

Time Detail Thinking Piece Every

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Technology Plant Understanding Labels

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.

Action Cards Development Manipulation

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.

Work Mistakes Research You Bad New

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

Music Writing You Now Century Tonal

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

Now Coming Surface Underground Once

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Music People Feelings Way Ordinary

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Music Me Festivals New Modern Which

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

Time American Hard Pretty Working

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.

Music Man Skill Street True Idea

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

You Transition Make Set Another

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