The Diamond for violin and piano 小提琴鋼琴 小提琴加鋼琴 朔特版

在早期佛教經典《金剛經》（又名《金剛破幻經》）中，佛陀引導他的對話者長老蘇布提提出了一系列問題和挑釁。最後，佛陀向與會者開示："一切有為法，如夢幻泡影，如露亦如電，應作如是觀。"這首二重奏分為四個部分，大致對應這四種不同的無常觀：形與空交錯的四個不同時刻，鑽石的四個角。這一系列圖像本身就是一種構成，將不同的元素彙聚成一個統一的系統。它表明，我們創造的事物與超越意圖而存在的事物相似。佛陀的話語幫助我們聆聽所謂的作曲和即興創作，或者是音樂這一涵蓋性範疇，將其視為一個更大的集合體的一部分：形成和消退的事物。 維賈伊-伊耶"

作曲家: Iyer, Vijay
樂器: violin and piano
出版社: Schott Music
原文簡介:
In The Diamond Sutra, an early Buddhist text also known as The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha leads his interlocutor, the Elder Subhuti, through a series of questions and provocations. The Buddha then concludes the session by offering this teaching to those assembled:All composed things are like a dream,a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.That is how to meditate on them;that is how to observe them.This duo piece is in four sections, corresponding roughly to these four disparate visions of impermanence: four distinct moments of interplay between form and emptiness, four corners of a diamond. This series of images is itself a “composed thing,” gathering dissimilar elements into a unified system. It suggests that the things we make are similar to things that exist beyond intention. The Buddha’s utterance helps us hear so-called “composition” and “improvisation” – or the encompassing category, “music” – as part of an even larger aggregate: that which forms and recedes.– Vijay Iyer