Zany, Cute, Interesting

for solo violin

für:

Violine

Ausgabe:

Partitur

Artikelnr.:

1632710

Autor / Komponist:

Vijay Iyer

Umfang:

8 Seiten; 23,1 × 30,3 cm

Dauer:

3:00 Minuten

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Verlag / Hersteller:

Schott Music

Hersteller-Nr.:

ED 30166

ISMN:

9790600012480

UPC:

0888680725266

Beschreibung

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