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.
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| Birth: | 16th January, 1943 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Bassist, Composer |
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Richard Gavin Bryars was born in Goole, East Yorkshire, England. He is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism. He studied philosophy at Sheffield University but became a jazz bassist during his three years as a philosophy student.
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