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Vijay Iyer

Dharma-Eye

for trumpet doubling flugelhorn in Bb, percussion quartet, and piano doubling Rhodes

(2024)
Movements

Part 1: Garden of Amrapali
Part 2: Procession
Part 3: Queries
Part 4: Thereupon (Splendor of the Virtues)

CommissionCo-commissioned by So Percussion and Carnegie Hall
PremiereDecember 2, 2023; Zankel Hall, New York City; So Percussion • Milena Casado, trumpet and flugelhorn • Vijay Iyer, piano
PublisherSchott Music

Program Note

Dharma-Eye takes its name from a moment in the first chapter of the Vimalakirti Sutra, when the world is shown to be much more than it appears. First brought to my attention by the theater director Peter Sellars, this early Buddhist text is didactic in nature, teaching concepts of nondualism, emptiness, and compassion.

Dharma-Eye is scored for trumpet/flugelhorn, piano/Fender Rhodes, and four percussionists. The music is organized for creative ensemble in the tradition set forth by Wadada Leo Smith and others, describing musicians and ensembles who bring their creative input to the realization of a composed work. This is often referred to as “improvisation,” but that term falls short of capturing the structural impact of this process.

Music-making becomes “listenable,” I feel, by revealing its own internal listening processes. What does listening sound like? For an individual performer, the process is audible in their relation to their surroundings, in their interactions with the sound of the room and the listening presence of others. In ensemble music, listening sounds like trust: a cultivated rapport among players, audible in mutual breathing, attunement, blending, dynamics, the ebb and flow of pulse, and the non-visual coordination of action.

This composition reduces the visual element of notation as much as possible, and pushes the manageable limits of the aural. I view this piece as less a straightforward linear score than a system of ethical relations that affords individual and collective sonic agency. It offers specific strategies for building musical structure: listening and responding, aggregating and synchronizing, maintaining and transforming. These methods are meant to foster a performative vulnerability that brings the music-making to life, bringing performers to the brink of possibility and revealing their interreliance. The piece invites players to proceed, through a cooperative listening practice, from emptiness to form and back.

Vijay Iyer
New York City
October 10, 2023

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