Vijay Iyer :: Writings

2010 "Thelonious Monk: Ode to a Sphere." Guest column in JazzTimes vol. 40, no. 1.
2009. "Strength in Numbers" Vijay Iyer - guardian.co.uk
2009. "Improvisation: Terms and conditions." In Zorn, J., ed., Arcana IV (Hips Road / Tzadik), forthcoming.
2009. "A Listening Questionnaire." Shifter v. 14: 20.
2008. Iyer, V. "On Improvisation, Temporality, and Embodied Experience." In Miller, P., ed., Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 273-292
2008 Book review: "Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music." By Mark Butler. In Journal of the Society for American Music, 2(2): 269-276.
2008 "Concerning Late Style in Composers and Improvisors." Program notes to Brentano Quartet Carnegie Hall concerts.
2007 "Uncertainty Principles." All About Jazz New York, March 2007.
2006 "Sangha: Collaborative improvisations on community." Critical Studies in Improvisation / Etudes critiques en improvisation, Vol 1, No 3 (2006).
2004 "Navigation through Form: Composing for improvisors." Program notes for Improvise!, a festival organized by American Composers Orchestra.
2004 "Exploding the Narrative in Jazz Improvisation." In O'Meally, R., B. Edwards & F. Griffin, eds., Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies. New York: Columbia University Press.
2004 "Improvisation, Temporality, and Embodied Experience." Journal of Consciousness Studies 11(3-4): 159-173.
2002 "Being Home: Jazz Authority and the Politics of Place." Current Musicology 71-73: 462-476.
2002 "Embodied Mind, Situated Cognition, and Expressive Microtiming in African-American Music." Music Perception 19(3): 387-414.
1998 Microstructures of Feel, Macrostructures of Sound: Embodied Cognition in West African and African-American Musics. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
1997 Iyer, V., Bilmes, J., Wright, M., and Wessel, D. "A Novel Representation for Rhythmic Structure." Proceedings of the 1997 International Computer Music Conference (San Francisco: International Computer Music Association), 97-100.
1996 "Steve Coleman, M-Base, and Musical Collectivism." Published on the worldwide web: http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~vijay/toc.html