Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm of discourse about music, improvisation is marginal, but in the realm of doing it, it's omnipresent. Strange distinction here: we're improvising all the time, but when we tend to talk about music, we tend to talk about objects that are fixed, like recordings, scores, pieces.
What I find the challenge is with working with, say, digital machines - performing electronic music - is that when we play instruments there's a phys… - Vijay Iyer
What I find the challenge is with working with, say, digital machines - performing electronic music - is that when we play instruments there's a phys…
- Vijay Iyer
A successful relationship is not about two people staring into each other's eyes, it's about two people looking ahead together. I think in order to c… - Vijay Iyer
A successful relationship is not about two people staring into each other's eyes, it's about two people looking ahead together. I think in order to c…
It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion. - Vijay Iyer
It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.
There are records I'll listen to one time and zero in on what's happening, and then I'll listen again to something I didn't notice the first time. Th… - Vijay Iyer
There are records I'll listen to one time and zero in on what's happening, and then I'll listen again to something I didn't notice the first time. Th…
Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the … - Vijay Iyer
Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the …
The phrase I use is 'easy camaraderie.' Non-western immigrants of color and their progeny like me - my parents came here fifty years ago and I was bo… - Vijay Iyer
The phrase I use is 'easy camaraderie.' Non-western immigrants of color and their progeny like me - my parents came here fifty years ago and I was bo…
It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can ref… - Vijay Iyer
It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can ref…
With electronic music it's often a little more hidden - the relationship between gesture and sound - which makes it confounding for audiences. But th… - Vijay Iyer
With electronic music it's often a little more hidden - the relationship between gesture and sound - which makes it confounding for audiences. But th…
If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben Ratliff asked it, and he came… - Vijay Iyer
If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben Ratliff asked it, and he came…
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