A Man In A Room, Gambling
composer: Gavin Bryars
text writer: Juan Muñoz
for pre-recorded voice or live narrator and string quartet
ten 5-minute programmes
text by Juan Muñoz
Premiere: April 17, 1992 London, Dave Hunt Studio (UK) · Balanescu Quartet
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 50' 0''
Year of composition: 1992
Edition: performance material
Language: English
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Composers note:
These are the recommended structures (though others are possible)
1. All 10 Movements (50 minute version) either
(i) continuously, with a 10 second break between the movements and a 2 bare count on the click track before each first bar of music. This could for half of a long concert, or
(ii) in two parts each having 5 movements taking an interval between parts 5 and 6. This could form an entire short concert slightly under 1 hour in duration.
2. 6 Movements (30 minute version) using numbers 2, 3, 6, 8, 4, 10.
3. 5 Movements (25 minute version) using either
(i) numbers 2, 3, 8, 4, 10 or
(ii) numbers 4, 9, 8, 3, 10 or
(iii) numbers 1, 8, 6, 9, 10
4. 4 Movements (20 minute version) using numbers 4, 8, 3, 10
G.B.
Sound Clips
Bryars (text Muñoz) · A Man in a Room, Gambling for pre-recorded voice or live narrator and string quartet (Programme Four "Shifting upper pack to bottom") · sound clip
Recordings
A Man in a Room, Gambling (2003)
Gavin Bryars
Juan Muñoz (speaking voice); Yukio Fujishima (additional speaking voice, tracks 5,7,9,10); The Balanescu Quartet
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