One of the quiet revelations of "Meredith Monk: The Recordings" (ECM New Series) is that Monk herself confides that it was Janis Joplin who set her –and her voice– free. The 13-CD set chronicles the ...

National Sawdust will host an album listening party for Meredith Monk’s Cellular Songs on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at 80 North 6th Street in Brooklyn. Attendees will experience the full ...

This straightforward biodoc provides a strangely perfect window into the singular genius of Meredith Monk. Except here, in a biodoc that manages to trace the ancient magic of Monk’s creativity without ...

Meredith Monk is one of the most vital American artists of the past 60 years. The 82-year-old New Yorker is a singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, filmmaker, dancer and educator whose vast and ...

What it doesn’t have is words. It has arias, duets, trios, choruses, instrumental interludes. It has dance sequences. It has spectacle — here at Walt Disney Concert Hall, an extraordinary sphere, 36 ...

Meredith Monk has been called one of America’s most visionary and challenging performing artists. A new documentary about her life and art, slated to screen at Studio Two Three on Saturday, Nov. 15, ...

In 2002, after the death of her longtime partner Mieke van Hoek, Meredith Monk began making a multimedia piece about “the fleeting nature of life.” At first glance, the theme of “Impermanence,” now at ...

To call Meredith Monk “multi-talented” barely begins to describe it. She’s a composer, a vocalist, a filmmaker, a choreographer, a dancer and more. The originality she brings to each of these ...

Billy Shebar’s Monk in Pieces stars Meredith Monk, an artist so singular as to be unclassifiable. (A collage of Zoom-interviewed academics who expound on the titular ...