Violin SKU: HL.49045725
Solo Violin. Composed by Vijay Iyer. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. String Solo. Softcover. Composed 2016. 6 pages. Duration 3'. Schott Music #ED30166. Published by Schott Music (HL.49045725). ISBN 9781540015938. UPC: 888680725266. 9.0x12.0x0.084 inches.
My piece is titled 'Zany, Cute, Interesting.' It's inspired by the literary theorist Sianne Ngai, whose book Our Aesthetic Categories explores what she calls 'weak aesthetics' - our ambivalent or antithetical responses to contemporary culture and commodities: playfulness and desperation, tenderness and aggression, stimulation and boredom. This composition stages a violin performance that might support a similar range of reactions, offering an ambivalence around the notion of virtuosity.- Vijay Iyer.
