Bryars: A Listening Room (Chambre d’écoute)

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Release Date: 29th Oct 2007
Catalogue No: BCGBCD08
Label: GB Records
Length: 56 minutes

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Bryars: Espace de la cour

Work length3:15

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La Fanfare D'Oiron

Bryars: Cage du grand escalier

Work length8:46

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Gavin Bryars, Albert Chansault, Michael Morin, Roger Heaton, Dave Smith, Joël Becot

Bryars: Salon des émigrés

Work length4:50

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Gavin Bryars, Albert Chansault, Michael Morin, Roger Heaton, Dave Smith, Joël Becot

Bryars: Galarie de peinture

Work length6:08

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Gavin Bryars, Chris Ekers, Roger Heaton, Dave Smith

Bryars: Tour des ondes

Work length6:47

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Gavin Bryars, Roger Heaton

Bryars: Cuisine

Work length10:23

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Gavin Bryars, Roger Heaton, Dave Smith

Bryars: Vestibule

Work length4:48

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La Fanfare D'Oiron

Bryars: Salle d'armes

Work length6:52

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Gavin Bryars, Roger Heaton, Dave Smith

Bryars: Salle des faïences / Salon gris

Work length4:17

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Gavin Bryars, Roger Heaton

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During the late 1960s and through the 1970s Gavin Bryars taught in art colleges and throughout his career he has collaborated with many visual artists such as Bruce McLean, Tim Head, Bill Woodrow and Will Alsop. He worked closely with the late Juan Muoz, notably on 'A Man in a Room, Gambling' - also recorded on GB Records. He has made installations/performances for the Liverpool Tate Gallery, the Tate St Ives, Tate Modern and, in 1993 a special project in the amazing Chateau d'Oiron in western France. This is a "listening room", an installation that takes the form of an acoustic map of the chateau. For this, specific music was written in order to establish the architectural acoustic of each space and to animate the spaces in which the music was played. This was recorded ambisonically and a listening room was established in the chateau where the listener can hear the natural acoustic of each source room. This room is, therefore, both a map of the space and a space in itself. Along with Gavin Bryars himself, there are two members of his own ensemble, and his own sound designer and engineer. In addition he uses the village band (La Fanfare d'Oiron) accepting the eccentricities of their performance, and adding three players to the ensemble for two rooms.

This recording is a unique record of that installation, which has played in the chateau since 1993, and has also been exhibited at the 2006 Alvar Aalto Architecture Symposium and in the Muse d'Angers, France - an exhibition devoted to major British sculpture in the French National Collection, and this work is included in that category!

Personnel: Gavin Bryars, Dave Smith, Roger Heaton, Chris Ekers, members of the Oiron village band

Bryars: A Listening Room (Chambre d’écoute)

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