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. In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Grand 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 2014, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
222 releases · 40 albums · active 1967–2026
- Other credits · 439
- Performance · 359
- Engineering · 17
- Production · 7
Studios: Tonstudio Bauer · Hometown Studios · Russian Hill Recording · Caldwell Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Blondes (2)
- Vanessa Wagner (2)
- Jess Gillam
- Conrad Tao
- Tomoko Mukaiyama
- L.A. Graf
- Sean Shibe