Meredith Monk
American musician
Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Grand Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, 1998) and Jean-Luc Godard (Nouvelle Vague, 1990 and Notre musique, 2004). Trip hop musician DJ Shadow sampled Monk's "Dolmen Music" on the song "Midnight in a Perfect World". In 2014, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts.
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Works
- Atlas
- Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate"
- Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Airport
- Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Choosing Companions
- Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Future Quest (The Call)
- Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Home Scene
- Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Overture (Out of Body 1)
- Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Rite of Passage A
- Atlas: Part I "Personal Climate": Travel Dream Song
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel"
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Agricultural Community
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Campfire - Hungry Ghost
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Desert Tango
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Explorer #5 - Lesson - Explorers' Procession
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Father's Hope
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Forest Questions
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Guides' Dance
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Ice Demons
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Lonely Spirit
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Loss Song
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Night Travel
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Possibility of Destruction
- Atlas: Part II "Night Travel": Treachery (Temptation)
- Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light"
- Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light": Earth Seen From Above
- Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light": Explorers' Junctures
- Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light": Other Worlds Revealed
- Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light": Out of Body 2
- Atlas: Part III "Invisible Light": Rite of Passage B
- Biography
- Change
- Dark/Light 1
- Dark/Light 2
- Do You Be
- Dolmen Music: A. Overture and Men's Conclave / B. Wa-Ohs / C. Rain / D. Pine Tree Lullaby / E. Calls / F. Conclusion
- Double Fiesta
- Downfall
- Duet With Shifting Ground
- Dungeon
- Ellis Island
- Environs 1
- Environs 2
- Environs 3
- Eon
- Evolution
- Facing North
- Facing North: No. 8, Hocket
- Fat Stream
- Folkdance
- Fractal Activity
- Fractal Mirror
- Gamemaster's Song
- Gotham Lullaby
- Harvest
- High Realm
- High Realm Reprise
- Key
- Memory Song
- Memory Zone
- Migration
- Nightfall
- Obsolete Objects
- On Behalf of Nature
- Panda Chant II
- Paris
- Parlour Games
- Pavement Steps
- Phantom Waltz
- Porch
- Railroad (Travel Song)
- Return to Earth
- Ringing
- Ritual Zone
- Road Song
- Sigh
- Songs From the Hill
- Songs From the Hill: Bird Code
- Songs From the Hill: Descending
- Songs From the Hill: Insect
- Songs From the Hill: Jade (Old Woman's Song)
- Songs From the Hill: Jew's Harp
- Songs From the Hill: Lullaby
- Songs From the Hill: Mesa
- Songs From the Hill: Prairie Ghost
- Songs From the Hill: Silo
- Songs From the Hill: Wa-lie-oh
- Spaceship
- Spider Web Anthem
- St. Petersburg Waltz
- Steppe Music
- Tablet
- The Games
- The Tale
- Tokyo Cha Cha
- Totentanz
- Tower
- Travelling
- Understreet
- Urban March (Shadow)
- Vision
- Waltz in 5s
- Water/Sky Rant
- What Does It Mean?
- Window in 7's