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An Interview With Improvisational Geniuses Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily

The Pitchfork Review

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Is There a Shared Experience?

Vijay: I've never had any like Pakistani or South Asian classical training in music. Because our culture is so steeped in music and melody that you can't really, it's hard to not. He says he has consciously taken his daughter downstairs to the studio often. "I let it be a space of play from the moment we come out without any goal whatsoever"

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