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

The Pitchfork Review

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How Do We All Connect?

When I was younger, there was such a strong point of view from family to not become a musician. That my way forward was to just cut the cord. And now in playing with both Vijay and Arruj, in thinking about ancestors and ancestry, I'm excited about reconnecting. Like if music has a relationship to consonants and dissonance, and then we sit in an instrument that makes vibration, do we then reach for those dissonances together? Because they're there. Right.

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