Meredith Monk

Biography

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.[1] In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston 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 2015, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.

Known For

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

as Self

Book of Days

as Madwoman

Uncle Meat

as Red Face Girl

Institutional Quality

Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

as Self

16 Millimeter Earrings

as Herself

Songs of Ascension

Quarry

as Child

Meredith Monk: Solo Concert 1980

as Herself

Four American Composers: Meredith Monk

as Herself