# Publications Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 38 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Year of PublicationAlphabetical A-Z sort ## 38 results Download 38 citations download- [BibTeX](/node/716971/export?format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/node/716971/export?format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/node/716971/export?format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/node/716971/export?format=tagged) - [Marc](/node/716971/export?format=marc) - [PubMedId](/node/716971/export?format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/node/716971/export?format=ris) ### Forthcoming Steve Lehman, Vijay Iyer, and Tyshawn Sorey. 2025. “[Thereupon (sound Recording)](https://pirecordings.com/albums/thereupon/)” Steve Lehman, Vijay Iyer, and Tyshawn Sorey. 2025. “[Thereupon (sound Recording)](https://pirecordings.com/albums/thereupon/)” - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [Publisher's version](https://pirecordings.com/albums/thereupon/) ***Thereupon*** is the long-anticipated return of the all-star collaborative trio **Fieldwork**, which has been described by *NPR* as a “power trio for the new century.” This long-standing collective comprises three internationally revered innovators of contemporary... - [Publisher's version](https://pirecordings.com/albums/thereupon/) ### 2025 Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith. 2025. “[Defiant Life (sound Recording)](https://ecm.lnk.to/DefiantLife)” Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith. 2025. “[Defiant Life (sound Recording)](https://ecm.lnk.to/DefiantLife)” - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [Publisher's version](https://ecmrecords.com/product/defiant-life-vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith/) Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, *Defiant Life* – Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM – proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the suffering... - [Publisher's version](https://ecmrecords.com/product/defiant-life-vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith/) ### 2024 Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Vijay Iyer, Gil Rose, and Jennifer Koh. 2024. “[Vijay Iyer: Trouble (sound Recording)](/publication/vijay-iyer-trouble-sound-recording)” Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Vijay Iyer, Gil Rose, and Jennifer Koh. 2024. “[Vijay Iyer: Trouble (sound Recording)](/publication/vijay-iyer-trouble-sound-recording)” - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [streaming links](https://tr.ee/hzRtaweDiA) Conducted by Gil Rose with performances by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and soloist Jennifer Koh (violin) Approaching its landmark 100th album, the Grammy Award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) led by conductor Gil Rose releases... - [streaming links](https://tr.ee/hzRtaweDiA) Vijay Iyer. 2024. “[Compassion (sound Recording)](/publications/compassion)” Vijay Iyer. 2024. “[Compassion (sound Recording)](/publications/compassion)” - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://ecm.lnk.to/compassion) Description from ECM Records: Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer follows his 2021 ECM disc *Uneasy* — the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey — with *Compassion*, another album in league with these two gifted... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://ecm.lnk.to/compassion) ### 2023 Vijay Iyer. 2023. “[On Black Speculative Musicalities](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-art-and-aesthetics-9781350294615/)”. In Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings, edited by Michael Kelly and Monique Roelofs. New York: Bloomsbury Vijay Iyer. 2023. “[On Black Speculative Musicalities](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-art-and-aesthetics-9781350294615/)”. In Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings, edited by Michael Kelly and Monique Roelofs. New York: Bloomsbury - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-art-and-aesthetics-9781350294615/) - [ picture\_as\_pdfiyer2023-on\_black\_specula...](/sites/g/files/omnuum3421/files/vijayiyer/files/black_art_aesthetics-anthology-vijay_iyer-on_black_speculative_musicalities.pdf) "let us listen to black performance as a ritual space for Black speculative musicalities: sonically disruptive practices that posit new ways of becoming musical, new genres of being human, otherwise possibilities for black life and black subjectivities... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-art-and-aesthetics-9781350294615/) - [ picture\_as\_pdfiyer2023-on\_black\_specula...](/sites/g/files/omnuum3421/files/vijayiyer/files/black_art_aesthetics-anthology-vijay_iyer-on_black_speculative_musicalities.pdf) Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily. 2023. “[Love In Exile (sound Recording)](/publications/love-exile-sound-recording)” Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily. 2023. “[Love In Exile (sound Recording)](/publications/love-exile-sound-recording)” - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://loveinexile.lnk.to/outnow) *Love In Exile* asks you to step inside its sense of time, to stretch out alongside these delightful and unhurriedly unfolding songs. Profound impact is achieved with minimal instrumentation: Vijay Iyer on pianos and electronics, Shahzad Ismaily on bass and... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://loveinexile.lnk.to/outnow) ### 2021 Vijay Iyer and Muhal Richard Abrams. 2021. “[The Law Of Returns: Muhal Richard Abrams and Vijay Iyer in Conversation](/publications/law-returns-muhal-richard-abrams-and-vijay-iyer-conversation)”. In Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives On U.S. Music In the 21st Century, edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett and Carol Oja. University of Michigan Press Vijay Iyer and Muhal Richard Abrams. 2021. “[The Law Of Returns: Muhal Richard Abrams and Vijay Iyer in Conversation](/publications/law-returns-muhal-richard-abrams-and-vijay-iyer-conversation)”. In Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives On U.S. Music In the 21st Century, edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett and Carol Oja. University of Michigan Press - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/hm50tt73w) - [ picture\_as\_pdfabramsiyer2021thelawofret...](/sites/g/files/omnuum3421/files/vijayiyer/files/abramsiyer2021thelawofreturns.pdf) "On September 5, 2012, I had the chance to interview Abrams for a podcast for the occasion of his receipt of an award from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. We sat together for an hour in a bare boardroom at the offices of Chamber Music America. In our... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/hm50tt73w) - [ picture\_as\_pdfabramsiyer2021thelawofret...](/sites/g/files/omnuum3421/files/vijayiyer/files/abramsiyer2021thelawofreturns.pdf) Vijay Iyer. 2021. “[‘What’s Not Music, But Feels Like Music to You?’](/publications/whats-not-music-feels-music-you)”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, Pp. e79 Vijay Iyer. 2021. “[‘What’s Not Music, But Feels Like Music to You?’](/publications/whats-not-music-feels-music-you)”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, Pp. e79 - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001740) - [ picture\_as\_pdfwhats\_not\_music\_but\_feels...](/sites/g/files/omnuum3421/files/vijayiyer/files/whats_not_music_but_feels_like_music_to.pdf) The category "music" as used in this area of science is inconsistent and unstable, and its logical relationship to the word "musicality"-used by scientists to denote the human capacity for music-is circular. Therefore, rather than pursue the question,... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001740) - [ picture\_as\_pdfwhats\_not\_music\_but\_feels...](/sites/g/files/omnuum3421/files/vijayiyer/files/whats_not_music_but_feels_like_music_to.pdf) Vijay Iyer. 2021. “[Uneasy (sound Recording)](/publications/uneasy)” Vijay Iyer. 2021. “[Uneasy (sound Recording)](/publications/uneasy)” - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [Publisher's version](https://ecmrecords.com/product/uneasy-vijay-iyer-linda-may-han-oh-tyshawn-sorey/) - [streaming links](https://ecm.lnk.to/Uneasy) 'Vijay Iyer presents a powerful new trio, in which he is joined by two key figures in creative music, Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh. “We have an energy together that is very distinct. It has a different kind of propulsion, a different impulse and a... - [Publisher's version](https://ecmrecords.com/product/uneasy-vijay-iyer-linda-may-han-oh-tyshawn-sorey/) - [streaming links](https://ecm.lnk.to/Uneasy) ### 2020 Vijay Iyer. 2020. “[The Deft, Quiet Shout of Her Hands: Geri Allen’s Speculative Musicalities](/publications/deft-quiet-shout-her-hands-geri-allens-speculative-musicalities)”. Jazz and Culture, 3, 2, Pp. 92-110 Vijay Iyer. 2020. “[The Deft, Quiet Shout of Her Hands: Geri Allen’s Speculative Musicalities](/publications/deft-quiet-shout-her-hands-geri-allens-speculative-musicalities)”. Jazz and Culture, 3, 2, Pp. 92-110 - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jazzculture.3.2.0092) - [ picture\_as\_pdfiyer2020thedeftquietshout...](/sites/g/files/omnuum3421/files/vijayiyer/files/iyer2020thedeftquietshoutofherhands.pdf) "Geri Allen’s entire praxis of being human is bracingly audible in the mercurial, unshakeable, guiding musicality of her hands." - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jazzculture.3.2.0092) - [ picture\_as\_pdfiyer2020thedeftquietshout...](/sites/g/files/omnuum3421/files/vijayiyer/files/iyer2020thedeftquietshoutofherhands.pdf) ### 2019 Vijay Iyer. 2019. “[Beneath Improvisation.](/publications/beneath-improvisation)”. In The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory, edited by Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings. Oxford University Press Vijay Iyer. 2019. “[Beneath Improvisation.](/publications/beneath-improvisation)”. In The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory, edited by Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings. Oxford University Press - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190454746.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190454746-e-35) - [ picture\_as\_pdfbeneath\_improvisation\_201...](/sites/g/files/omnuum3421/files/vijayiyer/files/beneath_improvisation_2019.pdf) "Improvisation has been construed as Western art music's Other. This chapter urges music theorists to take the consequences of this configuration seriously. The decision to exclude improvisation as inherently unstable is not neutral, but is bound up with... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190454746.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190454746-e-35) - [ picture\_as\_pdfbeneath\_improvisation\_201...](/sites/g/files/omnuum3421/files/vijayiyer/files/beneath_improvisation_2019.pdf) Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn. 2019. “[The Transitory Poems (sound Recording)](/publications/transitory-poems-sound-recording)” Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn. 2019. “[The Transitory Poems (sound Recording)](/publications/transitory-poems-sound-recording)” - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.ecmrecords.com/shop/1542706203/the-transitory-poems-vijay-iyer-craig-taborn) "Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, two of creative music’s most resourceful players, learned to meld and mesh their artistic approaches inside Roscoe Mitchell’s Note Factory ensemble (as documented on Mitchell’s 2007 recording *Far Side*). 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