"... Where does the impulse to create something come from for you? What role do often-quoted sources of inspiration like dreams, other forms of art, personal relationships, politics etc play? For the last 30 years virtually all my work has been commissions. So the clear impulse is the need to deliver on time! But within that minor constraint I find ways to locate things that are of interest to me – other than the course or subject of the commission. Occasionally I have written a piece as a gift to, or in memory of, a friend. An example would be Cadman Requiem following the death of my sound engineer Bill Cadman in the Lockerbie air crash in 1988 or Incipit Vita Nova for the birth of a friend’s first child, who was called 'Vita'. ..."
2023 April: The Sinking Of The Titanic (1975), 2023 September: The Strange World Of... Gavin Bryars
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