Monk, Meredith Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Meredith Monk: Inner Voice

  2009, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Meredith Monk: Inner Voice

  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself - Composer
• Play in Full Screen Meredith Monk: Inner Voice

  2009, role: actress , character name: Performer
• Play in Full Screen A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

  2009, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Saamelainen

  2007, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Uhri - elokuva metsästä

  1998, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Book of Days

  1989, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Book of Days

  1989, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Uncle Meat

  1987, role: actress , character name: Red Face Girl
• Play in Full Screen Four American Composers

  1983, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Four American Composers

  1983, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Ellis Island

  1982, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Plainsong

  1982, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Ellis Island

  1982, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Ellis Island

  1982, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

  1980, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

  1974, role: actress

Famous quotes by Meredith Monk:

"A group called Rosetta Life, that sends artists out to hospices in England, came to talk to me in February 2003. I lost my partner of 22 years in November 2002, so I was really in my grieving process - I still am - but I was thinking of nothing but impermanence then."

"I'm sure that some of the hospice participants will be in the audience. One of them has already died. And, you know, all of us have impermanence in common."

"I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be."

"Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life."

"I had a number of interests that were all strands of my childhood. I come from a musical family - I'm a fourth generation singer. My mother was a commercial singer and my grandfather had been a bass baritone who came from Russia to the United States, so music was very strong in my family. I loved to sing; even before I spoke words I was singing melodies."

"I think I still have some confusion about the critical mind. But it seems that there's a difference between the critical mind, which is a kind of judgment, and has a harshness built in, cutting off impulses before they can develop, and discriminating intelligence, which can differentiate between what is authentic or genuine and what is contrived or forced."

"It's a continual excavation process, you could say. It's like being an archeologist of your own instrument as a kind of microcosm of the human voice, of human utterance, of sound itself. By digging into my own voice I'm uncovering feelings and energies for which we don't have words - it's like shades of feeling, early human utterance, and essential human nature."

"I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce."

"That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something."

"Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work."

Meredith Monk