Bryn Harrison
Bryn Harrison is a British composer whose music deals with repetition, memory and the experience of time, often in long forms that change very slowly. He took a master's degree in composition with Gavin Bryars at De Montfort University, Leicester. He completed a PhD at the University of Huddersfield in 2007 and teaches composition there. Harrison was featured composer at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2008 and has received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers. His music has been played by the London Sinfonietta, Klangforum Wien, Apartment House and Plus-Minus.
Towards a slowing of the past
Bryn Harrison writes music that deliberately disorients. The British composer—obsessed with "time, memory, and cyclic structures"—follows Feldman's lead, creating perceptual labyrinths where past bleeds into present and nothing stays quite where you …
Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality(Book)
Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. Thes…
A Coiled Form
'A Coiled Form' by UK-based composer Bryn Harrison. The piece was originally composed as a shorter solo in 2020, and then revised and expanded in collaboration with violinist Sarah Saviet, who gives an astonishing virtuosic performance, to become a 5…
Dirt Road
A composition in five movements for violin and piano. Aisha Orazbayeva (violin) & Mark Knoop (piano). Recorded in the Sendesaal at Radio Bremen on 27th July 2015.