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Richard Gavin Bryars (/braɪərz/; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde, and neoclassicism.

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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.

Art, Artists, College, Installations, Works, Writing

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Composer, Name, Names, Satisfying, Writing

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

Cds, Europe, Hollywood, Plant, Sceptical, Technology

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

Currently, Details, Orchestration, Pieces, Thinking, Time

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

Feelings, Lives, People, Touching, Way

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.

Fail, Mistake, New Work, Organisation, Sense, Trying

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.

Oboe, Oboes, Remember, Saxophonist, Thinking, Writing

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

Ensemble, Hard, Hard Times, John, Know, Knows

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.

Arrogant, Assertion, Developed, Ideas, Men, Skills

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

Part, People, Taken, Years

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

Coming, Surface, Underground

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.

Beautiful, Fast, Music, Running, Simply, Virtuosic

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

Flowing, Ideas, Keeping, Way

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

Composer, France, Hard, Hard Times, Time

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

Imperceptibly, Instruments, Make, Similarly, Transition

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

Academic, Attracts, Festivals, Modern, Music

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