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22-446: Our Music may refer to: Notre musique ( Our Music ), 2004 film by Jean-Luc Godard Our Music (album) , 2005 album by Burning Spear Bokura no Ongaku ( Our Music ), a Japanese music television show See also [ edit ] This Is Our Music (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

44-533: A company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance. Monk's performances have influenced many artists, including Bruce Nauman , whom she met in San Francisco in 1968. In 1978, Monk formed The Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble (modeled after similar ensembles of musical colleagues, such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass ), to explore new and wider vocal textures and forms, which often were contrasted with minimal instrumental textures. Monk began

66-461: A concert pianist of German Jewish background from Philadelphia. Meredith has a sister, Tracy (born 1948). Monk has a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College , where she studied composition with then-graduate student and Alwin Nikolais dancer Beverly Schmidt Blossom . At the age of three, Monk was diagnosed with strabismus and her mother signed her up to a Dalcroze eurhythmics programme,

88-515: A just conversation; just a conversation"). Later she interviews the poet Mahmoud Darwish , who says that Israel defines the Palestinian struggle. In between these encounters, Judith surveys the city, and visits the Mostar bridge, where she reads Emmanuel Levinas ( Entre Nous ). Meanwhile, Olga attends Godard's lecture, ostensibly about the relationship between image and text. In addition to touching on

110-488: A long-standing relationship with the Walker Art Center of Minneapolis , which continues to showcase her work to this day. During this period Monk recorded Dolmen Music (1979), her first album released on Manfred Eicher 's record label ECM , in 1981. In the 1980s, Monk wrote and directed two films, Ellis Island (1981), and Book of Days (1988). These developed from her idea; "One day during summer of 1984, as I

132-458: A nationalized French Israeli, who is going to the conference as an interpreter. Ramos is looking forward to seeing his niece at the conference, Olga Brodsky, a French-speaking Jew of Russian descent. Another young woman at the conference, Judith Lerner, a journalist from Tel Aviv , visits the French ambassador and entreats him to have an on-the-record conversation about Jewish-Palestinian relations ("not

154-438: A technique which integrates music with movement. Monk says that it "has influenced everything I've done. It's why dance and movement and film are so integral to my music. It's why I see music so visually." Meredith Monk is primarily known for her vocal innovations, including a wide range of extended techniques , which she first developed in her solo performances prior to forming her own ensemble. In December 1961, she appeared at

176-422: A variety of other topics, Godard explains his opposition to the common cinematic trope of "shot/reverse shot," the cutting back and forth between two characters in a conversation or an exchange. Godard explains that presenting two characters in such a way, framed identically, regressively effaces their differences, and can be used as a tool of propaganda. Later Olga meets with her uncle Ramos, and discusses with him

198-517: Is "a film for the ears." In the early 1990s, Monk composed an opera called Atlas , which premiered in Houston, Texas , in 1991. She has also written pieces for instrumental ensembles and symphony orchestras . Her first symphonic work was Possible Sky (2003). It was followed by Stringsongs (2004) for string quartet, which was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet . In 2005, events were held all over

220-555: Is divided into three parts inspired by the Divine Comedy of Dante . "Realm 1: Hell" is a relatively brief, non-narrative montage composed of appropriated documentary and narrative fictional footage depicting war, carnage, and violence. The second segment, "Realm 2: Purgatory", makes up the bulk of the film. Godard, playing himself, is waiting at the airport to depart to a European arts conference in Sarajevo . There he meets Ramos Garcia,

242-400: Is sure it was Olga. In "Realm 3: Heaven," a brief postlude, Olga wanders contemplatively through an idyllic lakeside setting that appears to be guarded by American marines. A part on the soundtrack of the movie is made by Meredith Monk , an American composer. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 65% of critics gave

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264-843: The Demetrio Stratos International Award for musical experimentation. On September 10, 2015, US President Barack Obama presented Monk with a National Medal of Arts , the highest honor in the United States specifically given for achievement in the arts. Monk was given The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2017. Her music was used in films by David Byrne ( True Stories , 1986), the Coen Brothers ( The Big Lebowski , 1998), Jean-Luc Godard ( Nouvelle Vague , 1990 and Notre musique , 2004), and in The Rapture (1991). Hip hop artist DJ Shadow sampled "Dolmen Music" on

286-608: 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 . Meredith Monk

308-796: The University of the Arts (Philadelphia) , the Juilliard School , the San Francisco Art Institute and the Boston Conservatory . In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Monk's name and picture. In 1985, Monk won an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence for her contributions to the off-Broadway community. In 2007, she received in Italy

330-527: The Actor's Playhouse in Greenwich Village (NYC) as a solo dancer in an off-Broadway children's musical theater adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol , entitled Scrooge (music and lyrics by Norman Curtis; directed and choreographed by Patricia Taylor Curtis). In 1964, Monk graduated from Sarah Lawrence College after studying with Beverly Schmidt Blossom , and in 1968 she founded The House,

352-536: The film positive reviews, based on 52 reviews. Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 77 out of 100, based on 19 reviews. Meredith Monk 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

374-498: The music by Mildred Bailey ("the great jazz singer from the ‘30s and ‘40s"), and Bartók 's cycle for piano Mikrokosmos . Monk has won numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Creative Capital Award in the discipline of Performing Arts. She has also been a MacDowell Fellow six times (1987, 1988, 1994, 1996, 2001, Winter 2007). She has been awarded honorary Doctor of Arts degrees from Bard College ,

396-447: The philosophical problem of suicide. After the conference, Godard is back home, watering his garden. He gets a call from Ramos Garcia, who tells Godard about a young woman who ran into a theater and declared she had a bomb in her bag. She asked for one person to die with her for Israeli-Palestinian peace; everyone left the theater. The police came and shot her. When they opened her bag, all they found were books. Garcia tells Godard that he

418-517: The title Our Music . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Music&oldid=1245422996 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Notre musique Notre musique received positive reviews from critics. The film

440-699: The world in celebration of the 40th anniversary of her career, including a concert in Carnegie Hall featuring Björk , Terry Riley , DJ Spooky (who sampled Monk on his album Drums of Death ), Ursula Oppens , Bruce Brubaker , John Zorn , and the new music ensembles Alarm Will Sound and Bang on a Can All-Stars, along with the Pacific Mozart Ensemble . Meredith Monk has been composer in residence for Carnegie Hall , concluding in 2015. In an interview, Monk said that her favourite music includes Brazilian music, especially Caetano Veloso 's recordings,

462-513: Was born to businessman Theodore Glenn Monk (1909–1998) and singer Audrey Lois Monk ( née Audrey Lois Zellman; 1911–2009), in New York City , New York . Her mother, a professional singer of popular and classical music known under the stage name of Audrey Marsh, was herself the daughter of professional musicians: the Russian Jewish bass-baritone Joseph B. Zellman, and Rose (Kornicker) Zellman,

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484-506: Was sweeping the floor of my house in the country, the image of a young girl (in black and white) and a medieval street in the Jewish community (also in black and white) came to me." Monk tells this account in the liner notes of the ECM-recording. Apart from the film, different versions exist of this piece. Two are for the concert hall, and an album, produced by Meredith Monk and Manfred Eicher,

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