- 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
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