Gavin Bryars Camp Workshop

Camp is a residential arts facility in the French Pyrenees. The facility is located in Aulus Les Bains, the last village before the France/Spain Pyrenean frontier chain. And if there are new movements, new ideas explored and when with new wave artists the groundbreaking rules strike out, artists are nurtured. As we can imagine, the location is spectacular, 750m above sea level, surrounded by snowcapped peaks over 3000m high, ancient forests, and cascading waterfalls. In the walk out of the residency, artists find themselves completely alone in one beautiful mountain landscape in Europe. Aulus les Bains is also a spa village – therefore artists can find healing and relaxing properties as well.

However, Aulus Les Bains organizes workshops for artists – musicians. Workshop dates are  20/09/2021 – 2021-09-28  And this is how to apply, just reserve your place at https://www.campfr.com/gavinbryars. No payment needed to reserve a place. Just to let you know that Gavin Bryars is a music composer and is one of the world’s most sucessful living composers. He showed up in public in the early sixties, playing bass with improvisers Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. He is the composer that does improvisation, and in the late 60’s he was working with John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, and John White.

His first major works – The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), originally released on Brian Eno’s Obscure label in 1975, and Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971) – were released in new versions in the 1990s, selling over a quarter of a million copies. The important strands in Gavin’s practice is opera and ballet: he has written five full-length operas, working with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Opera de Lyon, English National Opera, Mainz Opera, Long Beach Opera and the Opera de Paris, alongside such renowned directors as Robert Wilson, Atom Egoyan, Georges Delnon and Jean Lacornerie. Bryars worked with Opera North Projects and the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2006. By now he wrote over twenty ballets, including collaboration with Merce Cunningham. Elsewhere, he holds commissions for Bournemouth Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Primavera Chamber Orchestra Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and London Sinfonietta. His background in the visual arts has resulted with the opening of the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, an installation in the Chateau d’Oiron, commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, work for the Tate Gallery St Ives, and a project for the Valencia Architecture Biennale. He highly successfully collaborated with David Byrne, Bruce MacLean, Bill Culbert, Juan Munoz, Christian Boltanski, Will Alsop, and others.

This course will take an artist’s work as a starting point to examine compositional forms and strategies. Gavin works closely with the group members’ of existing practice and methods, and the aim of the workshop is for each one to develop an end and finished work. Participants from all musical backgrounds are welcome, classical composers, improvisers, sound artists, installation artists, conceptual artists, rock musicians that may be favoring another approach in music, really anyone. Artists can bring work in progress to develop or start something new on their own or in collective. Sessions will include individual tuition sessions, examining and developing each one’s existing work, and practice group sessions examining different types of musical material, including vocal music, string music, opera, music for dance, composing in the arranging the music of others. Gavin works on the development of individual’s work, towards performance and/or release post-workshop. This workshop is for all types of people working with sound and music, from trained composers to self-taught producers and visual artists working with sound.

 “This week has been such a nugget of gold. It’s a privilege to spend a whole week talking about, thinking about, and writing music with really interesting creative people. Such an inspiring week.” (Hayley Jenkins, a participant in Gavin’s 2018 workshop).

The deadline is 13th of September 2021. Contact Information: 

Info & booking: www.campfr.com/gavinbryars
Email: hello@campfr.com
FB: www.facebook.com/campfr
Twitter: www.twitter.com/camp_fr
Instagram: www.instagram.com/camp_fr

Web Link: 

https://www.campfr.com/gavinbryars