Solo viola - advanced
SKU: HL.49046438
For Solo Viola.
Composed by Vijay Iyer.
Sheet music. Edition
Schott. Softcover.
Composed 2019. 10 pages.
Duration 10'. Schott
Music #ED 30319.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046438).
ISBN
9781540094056. UPC:
840126924183.
9.0x12.0x0.078
inches.
Judith
Butler defines
'precarity' as the
unequal distribution of
precariousness. These are
precarious times, in
which access to safe
clean water is an
endangered human right,
increasingly under siege
by the damage to the
planet brought about by
humankind's excesses. But
this is also an epoch of
systemic inequality, in
which corporations,
municipalities, and
nation-states can and do
inflict incremental or
drastic harm on entire
vulnerable populations,
through war, deregulated
pollution, and the
differential withholding
of basic life needs.
Jasbir Puar has called
out this cruel, largely
unchecked capacity of the
powerful, which she
critically labels 'the
right to maim.' The
people of Flint, Michigan
became a historic example
of a living population
subjected to this kind of
violence, in the form of
environmental racism. In
this Year of Water, I
offer this piece, and my
commission, to the
children of Flint.- Vijay
IyerNew York CityOctober
2, 2019.
A Planet Under Siege
