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Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk's vocalizations range from the mad to the sublime, conjuring up subliminal worlds of abstraction that speak directly to the subconscious mind. In our featured piece, Monk channels her inner child with an excerpt from the album Dolmen Music, entitled "The Tale."
The Tale
The only work on Monk's album to feature intelligible lyrics, "The Tale" has its roots in her 1973 performance piece Education of the Girlchild, during which Monk regresses from an elderly woman to a young child over 45 minutes. "The Tale" begins innocently enough — with the sound of childlike ...
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