Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk
Meredith Jane Monkis an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth20 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
art creativity people
(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,...art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and...art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.
worry moments form
When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
thinking artist years
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.
past trying pieces
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.
curiosity antidote
Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.
thinking artist challenges
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.
voice dancing singing
I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
honesty voice never-quit
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.