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 ...

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 ...

The drill hall at the Park Avenue Armory can feel gloomy and imposing but in Indra’s Net, the latest full-length work from Meredith Monk, that emptiness transforms into something patient and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monk in Pieces is a 2025 documentary film by Billy Shebar about the visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk, who overcame ...

Performances in N.Y.C. “Indra’s Net,” coming to the Park Avenue Armory, shows off the polymathic Monk’s artistry as she enters her 60th season as a performer and creator. “I’ve held out this long, and ...

Meredith Monk talks about how her music is inspired by nature, “the cosmic orchestra” in Monk in Pieces (all images courtesy 110th Street Films) “She, among all of us, was the uniquely gifted one — is ...

You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The ever-astonishing eighty-one-year-old vocalist, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Except here, in a biodoc that manages to trace the ancient magic of Monk’s creativity without making any claim to understand where ...