It was also adapted by Gavin Bryars as Doctor Ox's Experiment, an opera in two acts with a libretto by Blake Morrison, first performed on 15 June 1998.
One of his earliest pieces, The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), is an indeterminist work which allows the performers to take a number of sound sources related to the sinking of the RMS Titanic and make them into a piece of music.
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The 1994 recording of this piece was remixed by Aphex Twin as Raising the Titanic (later collected on the 26 Mixes for Cash album).
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The Sinking of the Titanic (1969, First performance: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 1972).
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He has written several pieces for choreographers, including Biped (1999) for Merce Cunningham.
One of his more recognized auditory works was a collaboration with British composer Gavin Bryars in 1992 called A Man in a Room, Gambling, which consisted of Muñoz explaining card tricks over a composition by Bryars.
Although set in the Star Wars universe, lead artist and author Justin Chin "invented" new weapons for the game, such as the Bryar pistol and Packered mortar gun, which were named after his personal favorites, such as composer Gavin Bryars and 1950s Packard automobiles, respectively.
Gavin Friday | Gavin Bryars | Gavin Newsom | Gavin DeGraw | Gavin Shuker | Gavin Hamilton | Gavin Dunbar | Dance Gavin Dance | James M. Gavin | Gavin Rossdale | Gavin Harrison | Peter Gavin Hall | Gavin Turk | Gavin MacLeod | Gavin Hastings | Gavin Hamilton (artist) | John Gavin | Gavin O'Reilly | Gavin Menzies | Gavin Maxwell | Gavin Jantjes | Gavin Hoyte | Gavin Esler | Gavin Brown's Enterprise | Gavin Brown | Barrie Gavin | Tommy Gavin | Gavin Whelan | Gavin Stamp | Gavin Souter |
In addition to the remixes featured on this release, James has also remixed tracks by Beck, DJ Pierre, and Soft Ballet, as well as additional remixes of tracks by Seefeel, Gavin Bryars, Jesus Jones, Saint Etienne, and Mescalinum United.
He began lecturing at Leicester Polytechnic in 1986, working alongside Gavin Bryars and Dave Smith, eventually becoming subject-leader for the BA Performing Arts: Music.
The partly instrumental concert God Is My DJ, which later was recorded in studio and released on Warner Music, comprises works by composers as diverse as Arvo Pärt, David Crosby, Popol Vuh, Gavin Bryars, Franco Battiato and Jane Siberry, French, Hungarian and Livonian traditionals as well as eleventh and fourteenth century hymns sung in Ancient Greek and Latin.
All of his recordings have been of contemporary or 20th-century composers, such as John Adams, Hans Otte, Arvo Pärt, Gavin Bryars and Frederic Rzewski.
Like Howard Brookner’s earlier film Burroughs: The Movie, Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars features unique access to its subject, as well as an impressive host of interviewees, including Wilson’s long-term composer Phillip Glass, Heiner Müller, Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton, Ingrid Andree, Bénédicte Pesle, Gavin Bryars, Michel Guy, Isabel Eberstadt and Christopher Knowles.
The album features two covers: "Lonely People," from the 1974 America song, and "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet," from the 1971 composition by Gavin Bryars.