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	Meredith Monk
		Monk's is a name that comes up in discussions of the avant-garde, among the likes of Merce Cunningham, Laurie Anderson, and John Cage; she is a pioneer for fusing all kinds of art forms; music, dance, site-specific performance, video, and film in quiet, meditative, contemplative ways that explore the mysteries of existence.
		Monk's singing, both on her solo albums and in her musical theater pieces, may be the hardest aspect of her work to articulate.
		Monk, Hamilton, and the other dancers and singers who occasionally venture on and off the stage are not the focus so much as are their gestures.
	www.artic.edu /webspaces/fnews/2002-march/marfeatures4.html (1243 words)

	Encyclopedia: Meredith Monk
		While she is one of the earliest artists to practice what is now known as performance art, Monk identifies herself as a composer and folk singer.
		Monk and Chong have imagined recovery from devastation with far more compassion than most science fiction writers: what's most poignant is the rebuilding not of society, but of identity.
		In 1968 Monk founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance and in 1978 she formed Meredith Monk an Vocal Ensemble to perform her unique vocal compositions.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Meredith-Monk (1092 words)

	Meredith Monk
		Monk's adventurous musical career began in earnest upon graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1964, where she had supported herself performing as a folk singer and with a rock group called the Inner Ear.
		Early in her career Monk tried her hand at choreography and discovered that her true interest lay in breaking from the traditional technical aspects of the art form, so it was only natural that she would try the same approach with her vocal explorations.
		Monk's music is less intent on communicating than just being, reaching for primal sounds that allow the listener to experience her pieces on both a conscious and subliminal level.
	www.ascap.com /playback/2003/fall/monk.html (1303 words)

	Meredith Monk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meredith Monk (born November 20, 1942, in Lima, Peru) is an American composer, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer.
		In 1978 Monk formed the ensemble called Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble (modelled after similar ensembles of musical collagues such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass) to explore new and wider vocal textures and forms which often were contrasted with minimal instrumental textures.
		Meredith Monk: magician of the voice, interviewed by Bob Turner, Common Ground, November 2005
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meredith_Monk (988 words)

	Juilliard \| The Juilliard Journal Online
		"Meredith has a quaint way of looking at time," says Keen; "her pieces have enormous depth and are related to culture." A perfect example of this (which Monk played for the interview) is her latest musical-theater work, Mercy, a collaboration with visual artist Ann Hamilton that premiered at the American Dance Festival in 2001.
		Monk explained her intent to have the "audience surrounded by sound," employing the idea of sound as sculpture.
		Monk describes her work in terms of her goals to create "an art that is inclusive rather than exclusiveâ”that is expansive, whole, human, multidimensional.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/j_articles125.html (779 words)

	BERKLEE \| News \| Playtime: Meredith Monk
		Monk was the keynote speaker at my graduate school commencement at Boston Conservatory, and though she and I were in the same room that day, my first direct encounter with her came years later, thanks to my day job at Berklee.
		Monk began the class by encouraging the audience to join her on stage to sing.
		Monk began the session by leading the group through a series of stretching exercises to loosen the body and mind in preparation for the physical act of singing and the mental exercise of improvisation.
	www.berklee.edu /news/2005/11/meredith_monk.html (1104 words)

	writings & reviews 2
		MONK: I remember being in high school in a theory and harmony class and there was one guy who was really a rock 'n roll freak.
		MONK: A lot of my music is in song form and it always has been, for instance, Gotham Lullaby that I mentioned earlier.
		MONK: Well what I would say to someone like you and the situation that you're in is that you should just keep on honing your own work.
	www.andrewshapiro.com /monk.html (3346 words)

	The Stranger - Pullout - The Stranger vs. Bumbershoot - Intellectual Design
		Nine years later in 2005, Monk is celebrating 40 years in the performing arts, during which she has been a pioneer and purveyor of "interdisciplinary performance," working to intersect opera, film, dance, and installations in arresting new ways.
		Monk explores the depths and heights of the vocal mechanism, and even when employing the tightest, most-constricted sounds, she maintains a level of reflexivity that gives the impression that her voice is being fed to her straight out of the ether.
		Likewise Monk brings an intellectual order to a chaotic barrage of sounds so that the instinctual brawn is braced by a considerate treatment that requires the listener's brain be engaged as much as the ear.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=22920 (696 words)

	Meredith Monk: Opera of the senses
		Meredith Monks memories of Jancso go back to a lengthy ten-minute opening scene of one of the directors early films.
		Monk, however, has been noted for having pioneered what has come to be known as "extended vocal technique" and interdisciplinary performance.
		Ms Monk later formed the Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble, where she continued her work with a group of performers, resulting in numerous recordings.
	www.ontheglobe.com /notes/notes55.htm (726 words)

	Meredith Monk's Magic Frequencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Meredith Monk calls her latest work a science-fiction chamber opera, but Magic Frequencies has more dance in it -- and probably less singing -- than any Monk piece in a long time.
		Monk suggests all this in a series of spacy scenes, projections, and musical interludes that are populated by the same six actor-singer-dancers and two musicians.
		There's a sort of progression, but Monk isn't concerned with stories so much as with the identities of five people from different worlds who meet and become sociable despite their differences.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/dance/99/11/18/MAGIC_FREQUENCIES.html (718 words)

	WAC \| Press Release \| 1998 \| Meredith Monk Residency
		Born in 1942, Monk graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1964 with a combined performing arts degree, and in 1968 founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance.
		Monk's achievements have been recognized with numerous awards throughout her career, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Brandeis Creative Arts Award, three Obies (including an award for sustained achievement), and a Bessie for Sustained Creative Achievement.
		Join Meredith Monk and members of her Vocal Ensemble for an interdisciplinary performance workshop that combines voice, composition, improvisation, and movement.
	www.walkerart.org /archive/6/B3A39186DCAD8356616F.htm (690 words)

	Greg Sandow -- The Operatic Meredith Monk
		Monk’s emotional range, from somber to silly, is surely less limited than the emotional range of some of our stodgier classical composers, people like Brahms, Vaughan Williams, or Hindemith.
		Monk varies elements in the show as if each were a musical theme.
		Or maybe the association isn't as strange as it seems; Monk tells me she always starts by planning the structure of her works.
	www.gregsandow.com /monk.htm (1021 words)

	Monk, Meredith Jane. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A major figure in the avant-garde, she began her career in the 1960s as a choreographer with the experimental Judson Dance Theater, N.Y.C. In 1968 she formed her own performance group, The House.
		Monk is best known for innovative ensemble performance pieces.
		These often concern a journey or quest, sometimes incorporate video or film, and are unified by a continuing stream of rather minimalist music and expressive movement.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/MonkMer.html (189 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Danspace kicks off Meredith Monk tribute
		Meredith Monk's music was in good hands, as six choreographers paid tribute to the versatile artist at St. Mark's Church.
		Monk's "Engine Steps" filled St. Mark's with a rhythmic, industrial pulse as two rows of nine light bulbs along the church's balcony brightened in intensity.
		Titled after Monk's "Do You Be," the short piece was both touching and cheeky, as images of Jones' naked, muscular frame, held in heroic positions, bled over his clothed form.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/11/22/danspace_kicks_off_meredith_monk_tribute?mode=PF (649 words)

	Williams Center Gallery Will Host Installation by Visionary Artist Meredith Monk March 22-May 9
		A pioneer in what is now called "extended vocal technique" and "interdisciplinary performance," Monk creates works that thrive at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, and light and sound, in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception.
		Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, musical theater works, films, and installations.
		Monk has been honored with the prestigious MacArthur "Genius" Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Brandeis Creative Arts Award, three "Obies" (including an award for Sustained Achievement), two Villager Awards, a "Bessie" for Sustained Creative Achievement, the National Music Theatre Award, 16 ASCAP Awards for Musical Composition, and the Dance Magazine Award.
	www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/5355 (1037 words)

	Innovative Multimedia Artist Meredith Monk to Perform Rescheduled Concert
		Meredith Monk, composer, singer, choreographer and artist, will perform Thursday, March 27 beginning at 7:30 p.m.
		Monk is a pioneer in what is now called "extended vocal technique" and "interdisciplinary performance." A fourth generation singer in her family, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1964.
		Monk founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance in 1968.
	www.sbc.edu /cgi-bin/news/cr/printnews.cgi?id=EpFVkklFVuGVNMlHsa (263 words)

	ACIDplanet.com: Contests: Meredith Monk
		Meredith was delighted to have the opportunity to share her work with a new, dynamic audience, and to have so many young artists and DJs reinterpret her music.
		Monk uses her voice like an instrument, so the loops cut from her performance can be used almost like an instrumental sample.
		Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, choreographer and creator of new opera, musical theater works, films and installations.
	www.acidplanet.com /contests/meredithmonk (824 words)

	Review - Meredith Monk
		For over thirty years, experimental vocalist Meredith Monk has been working in forms of "extended vocal technique" (including melodic forms of breath, clicks, and contrapuntal forms) that are still singular, and her Walking Song was featured in the movie The Big Lebowski.
		When Monk steps on stage, one is surprised by her diminutive stature and soft-spoken manner, but her reserve fades quickly in her performance.
		To hear Meredith Monk is to hear her, and if given the chance, it is an experience not to be missed.
	www.intelligentagent.com /archive/Vol4_No4_reviews_monk_lichty.htm (501 words)

	Meredith Monk \| Bio
		Her groundbreaking exploration of the voice as an instrument, as an eloquent language in and of itself, expands the boundaries of musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings, energies, and memories for which we have no words.
		Monk is a pioneer in site-specific performance, creating works such as Juice: A Theater Cantata In 3 Installments (1969) and most recently American Archeology #1: Roosevelt Island (1994).
		A monograph, Meredith Monk, edited by Deborah Jowitt was released by Johns Hopkins Press in 1997.
	www.meredithmonk.org /monk (639 words)

	Cornish College of the Arts - PR - Meredith Monk
		Monk, a groundbreaking interdisciplinary artist embodies a great sense of interdisciplinary exploration as well as a lifetime commitment to the arts as a vital way of interacting with oneself and the community.
		A retrospective art exhibition, Meredith Monk: Archeology of an Artist, was held at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
		Monk's work was included in the Whitney Museum Century of American Art and a retrospective of her music, entitled Voice Travel, was part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
	www.cornish.edu /main.asp?pg=363&sid=22 (494 words)

	Johns Hopkins University Press \| Books \| Meredith Monk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Collecting writings by Monk herself, along with significant reviews, essays, interviews, and photographs of Monk's unique performance events, the book establishes her as one of the great treasures of contemporary American culture.
		With other radical artists of the 1960s, Monk pioneered the use of multi-media in performance, and she continues to experiment with new technologies and materials to create powerful images in her work.
		Collected here for the first time, Monk's various writings and the record of her remarkable performances show her to be an artist with a far-ranging and consistent vision.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/title_pages/1975.html (413 words)

	content
		Following in its tradition of honoring an American composer each year (Morton Feldman in 1996; Ornette Coleman in 1997; Leonard Bernstein in 1998; and Steve Reich in 1999), Lincoln Center Festival 2000 honors Meredith Monk, one of the most influential and internationally-acclaimed artists of our time, with a three-part retrospective of her music.
		A film series entitled Films of Meredith Monk, with screenings July 19, 20, and 23, will be presented at Makor in conjunction with her retrospective series at Lincoln Center Festival.
		Monk in Songs from the Hill, an unaccompanied solo from 1976; and with guest artist, pianist Nurit Tilles, in "Music for Voice and Piano" composed between 1972-1993.
	www.newmusicbox.org /news/may00/lcenter2000_mmonk.html (527 words)

	Making Music: Meredith Monk
		Meredith Monk’s earliest performances, dating back to 1965, were multimedia performance art pieces incorporating the sound of her three-octave ranged voice in a variety of unprecedented vocal techniques.
		At some point, Monk realized that the film and the Carnegie concert music she was writing, which was also engaging in a dialog between medieval and contemporary idioms, were intrinsically related and now Book of Days exists both as a soundtrack to the film and as an independent concert work.
		In 1965 Monk began her groundbreaking exploration of the voice as a multifaceted instrument and subsequently composed and performed many solo pieces for unaccompanied voice and voice/keyboard.
	www.carnegiehall.org /textSite/box_office/events/evt_6338.html (4298 words)

	Oberlin College News & Features
		Meredith Monk is an internationally renowned composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, musical theater works, films and installations.
		Monk will conclude her visit with a public performance at 8 p.m.
		Monk also is a pioneer in site-specific performance, creating works such as Juice: A Theater Cantata In 3 Installments (1969) and, most recently, American Archeology #1: Roosevelt Island (1994).
	www.oberlin.edu /news-info/05feb/monk.html (704 words)

	Meredith Monk
		Meredith Monk was one of the names in my reference book to strange sounds, New Sounds: The Virgin Guide To New Music.
		The description of Meredith Monk's music, her vocal music, was so intriguing that I looked for anything by her.
		Monk does voice and bass and is joined by Don Preston (faint Zappa connection) on organ and drums.
	www.hgriggs.com /mmonk.html (315 words)

	ipedia.com: Meredith Monk Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Meredith Monk is an American composer, vocalist, filmaker, and choreographer.
		While she is one of the earliest artists to practice what is now known as performance art, Monk identifies as a composer a...
		While she is one of the earliest artists to practice what is now known as performance art, Monk identifies as a composer and folk singer.
	www.ipedia.com /meredith_monk.html (172 words)

	Composer/Singer Meredith Monk Performs at MCCC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During a career that spans more than 35 years, Meredith Monk has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a major creative force in the performing arts.
		Monk’s Vocal Ensemble consists of some of the finest and most adventurous performers active in new music.
		Among her numerous awards throughout her career, Monk received the prestigious MacArthur “Genius” Award in 1995, as well as two Guggenheim Fellowships.
	www.mc3.edu /cr/mc3news/2005/oct/monk.htm (170 words)

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