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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, whom 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.
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missmetal86 wrote:
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cccarnero wrote:
genius
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Oralfabeta wrote:
<3
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Hammer_heart wrote:
Walking Song - какая-то блевотина.
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MushroomMammoth wrote:
Dolmen Music! What a beautiful composition. It's a shame the others on the album don't quite come close...
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hradec wrote:
♥ ♥ ♥ so in love with her Music
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b-l-ackstage wrote:
btw I hope Meredith tours to my country next year! one of my wishes for 2012
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b-l-ackstage wrote:
Who gives a damn about lists made by noobs that support massive commercialism and lack sensibility to listen/feel real music? Bet most of them don't have standard music knowledge in music as well yet they act like their opinion is the last coca-cola on earth.
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sunheadbowed wrote:
Watch it get ignored by all the year-end lists, too.
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Prince_de_Rien wrote:
If Songs of Ascension is not the best thing that has happened musically all these past years, then what is it? <3
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Awakethepoet wrote:
Pure Genuis. forever in love.
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raum wrote:
I LOVE YOUR MUSIC
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alissonprando wrote:
les folies.
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derekpiotr wrote:
turtle dream http://www.last.fm/music/Meredith+Monk/+images/70461518
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saxon48 wrote:
This is amazing!
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*__________* you inspiration in my life!
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organictraash wrote:
the entire nature is screaming
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astrophobos wrote:
God, i'm in love.
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SaloMusic wrote:
Мда :)
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bubblegunshot wrote:
Yoko Ono + Opera + Piano = Meredith Monk <3
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Meredith Monk
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, United States
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Meredith on KWMU
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