Barry Guy
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Barry John Guy (born 22 April 1947 in London) is a British composer and double bassist.
His interests include ancient music, experimental composition, jazz, and improvisation, as well as a variety of orchestras in the United Kingdom and Europe.
He has also taught at Guildhall School of Music. Guy, a born in London, came to prominence as an improvising bassist as a member of a trio with pianist Howard Riley and drummer Tony Oxley (Witherden, 1969).
He was also a regular participant of John Stevens' ensembles in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Spontaneous Music Ensemble.
He was a founding member of the influential free improvisation group Iskra 1903 with Derek Bailey and trombonist Paul Rutherford (a venture revived in the late 1970s, with violinist Philipp Wachsmann replacing Bailey).
He began a long-term friendship with saxophonist Evan Parker, which culminated in a trio with drummer Paul Lytton that became one of the most well-known and traveled free-improvising groups of the 1980s and 1990s.
In the 1980s, he appeared on the soundtrack of The Draughtsman's Contract for a short time.
Career
In the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Guy's obsessions with improvisation and formal composition reached their highest level. It was originally intended to perform Guy's composition Ode in 1972 (released as a 2-LP set on Incus and later, as a 2-CD set on Intakt), becoming one of Europe's finest large-scale improvising ensembles. Early documentation is spotty – Stringer is the only other recording from the band's early days (FMP), which is now available on Intakt alongside the later "Study II") – but Intakt's Stringer (FMP) is the only other one from its early days – but the Swiss label Intakt started to record the band more closely. The result was a series of exciting, album-length compositions intended to give each of the band members maximum freedom of expression, while still maintaining a tight sense of form: Beethoven Concerts (an original article about the band members and their internal groupings), Three Pieces (a 2-CD set of musical portraits of the band members and their internal groups), and Double Trouble Two (assembly. The organization's existence slowed in the mid-1990s, but it was never officially disbanded and revived in 2008 in Switzerland for a one-off concert. Guy created the Barry Guy New Orchestra, Guy Guy New Orchestra's second, smaller group.
Guy has also written for other large improvising groups, including the NOW Orchestra and ROVA (the piece Witch Gong Game was based on photographs by the visual artist Alan Davie).
Piano trios with Marilyn Crispell and Agusti Fernandez are among his new improvising projects. He has released several albums for ECM, many of which focus on the interaction of improvisers and electronics, as well as his participation in Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and his own Ceremony.
Guy's pop session includes playing double bass on the Japanese album Gentlemen Take Polaroids.
Maya Homburger, a young music violinist, is married to him. They now live in Switzerland after spending several years in Ireland. They run Maya, a small company that produces a number of albums in the field of free improvisation, baroque music, and contemporary composition.
Guy was appointed Honorary Professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he regularly conducts workshops and master classes.
Guy's jazz performance is characterized by free improvisation; plucking the strings above the left hand; and "preparing" the instrument with sticks and other accessories between the strings and fingerboard; His experiments are often perplex and unstable, occupying no discernible musical territory and pushing into unknown territories. However, they can also be melodious and tender due to harmonic blend with other players, and at times they may even perform with a strong jazz swing feel.
Guy manages to shift harmonic and rhythmic complexity in his concert performances, as well as Penderecki and Stockhausen's joyful, often ecstatic melody. "Flagwalk" for string orchestra and "Fallingwater – Concerto for Orchestra" showcase Guy's compositional ability in composing expanded forms and writing for large orchestra orchestras.
Several of his compositions, including "Witch Gong Game" for ensemble, use graphic notation in conjunction with cue cards to lead actors into performing and improvising content from numbered sections of the score.
He is also an architect.