Gavin Bryars Ensemble
In the 1970s, Gavin collaborated with composer friends including John White, Dave Smith and Christopher Hobbs in composer/performer ensembles. They composed music for one another to perform, tolerating the occasional weirdness of the resulting instrumentation and they performed each other's compositions. Mutual regard, musical trust and the capacity to decipher various types of musical shorthand were the guiding principles. He added three of his... read full bio