Vijay Iyer, Demetri Martin & Dave Hill

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Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2012

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer explores the relationship between music, the mind and the body. The comedian Dave Hill performs in front of his toughest audience yet: 250 maximum security felons. But it doesn't turn out quite how he expected. And we hear a sample from comedian Demetri Martin's new album.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Holly from Massachusetts.
0:02.0	I'm James from Salt Lake City.
0:03.6	I'm Jason R. Wallace from America's Georgia,
0:06.4	and these United States.
0:07.9	Bulls eye with Jesse Thorn is produced independently
0:10.3	and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:12.2	You should support the show like I did.
0:14.0	Just visit MaximumFong.org slash Donate.
0:17.9	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:19.0	Vijay Iyer is a jazz musician.
0:21.2	He says composition is a kind of problem-solving exercise
0:24.7	for him.
0:25.3	He used to study physics and mathematics pretty seriously.
0:28.4	He's got an advanced degree.
0:29.9	Maybe that's why he's so good at finding
0:32.0	elegant solutions in complex structures.
0:35.2	It's not a huge part of my life anymore,
0:37.5	and yet I'm always just getting asked to comment on it
0:42.0	as if it is.
0:42.7	It's sort of like being asked to talk about your ex, you know,
0:46.6	which is a little, you know, I'll do it.
0:50.8	But it's not the main thing I care about.
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