Episode

Episode #50 - Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life

Podcast: ECM Records Podcast
Published: Mar 23, 2025
Duration seconds: 2024
Processing state: not_requested
Canonical source: https://ecm-records-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-50-vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-defiant-life-MAc_o3WQ
Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/audio/55b6279c-cedb-41dd-bdda-f1726b4e01bc/episodes/5c10ee36-0dce-4bec-b8e8-65cc9d6d9287/audio/ba0ad65f-b341-40c0-abe5-df75ecfb27cd/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=yczuGPS0
JSON: /v1/public/podcasts/ecm-records-podcast-3543241/episodes/episode-50-vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-defiant-life
Markdown: /podcast/ecm-records-podcast-3543241/episode-50-vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-defiant-life.md

Actions

POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ecm-records-podcast-3543241/episodes/episode-50-vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-defiant-life/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecm-records-podcast-3543241/episode-50-vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-defiant-life.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

In the 50th episode of the ECM podcast we're joined by Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith to speak about their second offering as a duo "Defiant Life", which follows their almost a decade old collaboration for ECM, 2016's "A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke". Vijay and Wadada talk about the album's main themes: resistance, defiance, the art of the present and much more.