Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk is primarily known for her vocal innovations, including a wide range of extended techniques, which she first developed in her solo performances before forming her own ensemble. In 1964, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and in 1968 she founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance. Her performances influenced many artists, including Bruce Nauman, whomst she met in San Francisco in 1968. Read Full BioMeredith Monk is primarily known for her vocal innovations, including a wide range of extended techniques, which she first developed in her solo performances before forming her own ensemble. In 1964, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and in 1968 she founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance. Her performances influenced many artists, including Bruce Nauman, whomst she met in San Francisco in 1968. In 1978 Monk formed the ensemble called Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble (modelled after similar ensembles of musical colleagues such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass) to explore new and wider vocal textures and forms which often were contrasted with minimal instrumental textures. Powerful and influential pieces from this time include Dolmen Music (1979), which also was recorded for her first album released at Manfred Eicher's record label ECM in 1981. In the 1980s she wrote and directed two films, Ellis Island (1981), and Book of Days (1988), which developed from a single idea; "One day during summer of 1984, as I was sweeping the floor of my house in the country, the image of a young girl (in black and white) and a medieval street in the Jewish community (also in black and white) came to me", as Monk recounts in the liner notes of the ECM-recording. Apart from the film, different versions exist of this piece: two for the concert hall, and an album, explained by Meredith Monk and Manfred Eicher as "a film for the ears." In the early 1990s Monk composed an opera - Atlas which premiered in Houston in 1991. More recently, while continuing her work for her ensemble, she began writing for instrumental ensembles and symphony orchestra - her first symphonic work, Possible Sky (2003), and Stringsongs (2004), commissioned by the Kronos Quartet. In 2005, events were held all over the world celebrating the 40th anniversary of her career. These included a concert in Carnegie Hall, featuring Björk, whose singing is fundamentally indebted to Monk's, and others, including the composers Terry Riley, DJ Spooky (who has sampled her on his album "Drums of Death"), and John Zorn and the new music ensembles Alarm Will Sound and Bang on a Can All-Stars, along with the Pacific Mozart Ensemble.


She has won many awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, and she holds honorary Doctor of Arts degrees from Bard College, the University of the Arts (Philadelphia), The Julliard School, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Boston Conservatory.

Her music was used in films by Joel and Ethan Coen (The Big Lebowski, 1998) and Jean-Luc Godard (Nouvelle Vague, 1990 and Notre musique, 2004).

In a recent interview she said that her favourite music includes Brazilian music, especially Caetano Veloso's recordings, the music by Mildred Bailey ("the great jazz singer from the ‘30s and ‘40s"), and Bartok's cycle for piano Mikrokosmos.
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Walking Song
Meredith Monk Lyrics


We have lyrics for 'Walking Song' by these artists:

Arlo Guthrie Words and music by Leah Kunkel Oh, last night I sat…
Fiamma Fumana I tread on the red dust which stains my clothes I…
Inner Journey 行き先も決めぬまま歩き出してしまった ダメになりそうで不安で仕方ないけれど 下を向いても足元が見えているならば 大丈夫だ…
Kate & Anna McGarrigle Wouldn't it be nice to walk together Baring our souls while…
Los Lobos She's got me walking, got me talking, Talking to myself. An…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Meredith Monk:

Turtle Dreams I went I went to the store I went to the STORE,…
Turtle Dreams (waltz) I went I went to the store I went to the STORE,…

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Celeste Villegas

This song for some reason worked like magic to get my son asleep when he was a babe. Now he's 18 month old and he doesn't like it so much.

Surge Álvarez

lol, I can definitely see it having that effect on a baby

Vlajka Bajka

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Claude Alain

c'est très original, très personnel... Dans la mesure où il y a une qualité minimale dans ce type d'oeuvre (et c'est bien le cas ici!), on doit saluer respectueusement la réalisation. Surtout à une époque effroyablement conformiste où le bétail et son instinct grégaire s'en donnent à coeur joie...

oasis

My mum used to work in a bookshop and she said she played this every time a customer walked in and when they heard it they walked straight back out the door

USEPartyPeople

I'll be with you in a moment Mr. Lebowski!

s c i e n c e

This sounds a lot like the traditional Healing Songs of the ative north-american tribes.

Crazybeerd

Now I wanna visit Ohio for some reason...

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