Meredith Monk is primarily known for her vocal innovations, including a wid… Read Full Bio ↴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. 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 BjΓΆrk, 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 β30s and β40s"), and Bartok's cycle for piano Mikrokosmos.
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 β30s and β40s"), and Bartok's cycle for piano Mikrokosmos.
Masks
Meredith Monk Lyrics
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A Life Once Lost You know Suicide and life Are peachy conversations Based …
A Serpent's Hand Piece by piece I watch it fall away How many must…
Amarna Reign We are not who say we are We are not who…
Anti-Miro Dancing lines of forest clothes, looking for connection Sent…
Arcite We lie to each other We lie to ourselves We say that…
Aviators Creeping eyes from across this masquerade Feeling scared Eve…
Cast of Lions Killed someone yesterday But its alright we had history Fl…
Chapters We killed someone yesterday, But it's alright we had histor…
Chasing August The writing in the sky is hard to see but…
Dr. Mmmm Dr. Kuse er i huset bitch Chicksa her de er de…
E-S-S Running it up, we chasing them bands Don't give a fuck,…
Eternal Lament One instant will be enough to become blurred my face…
Eyes Set to Kill I love the ways[?] they tell us, this is who…
Fight the Fade Can you see me crawling over all the bodies Of the…
Hunter Callahan At seventeen, I thought I fell in love By 21, I…
Josh Gauton Quite now, I hear your voice, Youβ²re beckoning my jaded hear…
Liam Rogers We are a muse and we're a moment We are a…
Martyn Masks Masks Masks Masks Masks Masks Masks Masks Masks Masks …
Murda Killa ICY SHINE and MURDA KILLA ICY ICY MURDA KILLA 187 187 187 18…
Nathan Peterson Who'd have known that this is where we'd be Broke down,…
Nebula-H Counting all the knots that boy broke and I am…
Night Riots I love that you tried so hard to change your…
Orden Ogan Be good, my love be strong, my love Be fast A garden…
Prodigal Let's see what mask should I put on today? Perhaps a…
Purple Patch She came to me In bed And took me in forever She had…
Stories I don't know what you've become Can you even see your…
Synopsis Where the past and present confounds Blending reality and il…
The Brook & The Bluff You lit your cigarette Oh how quickly we all forget, That be…
The Machine In The Garden We are lost into the fire But time is not within…
The Rodeo Idiot Engine We wear masks and dry tears To sham innocence, To feign our…
Tom Read Quiet now, I hear your voice You're beckoning my jaded heart…
Van der Graaf Generator (Hammill) He's a man of the past and one of the…
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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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