#Laying down listening to music gif professional#

“Star Trek: Envoy” follows Captain Sulu in the “Captain Sulu Adventures” series. Albeit a rare, audio-only episode of Star Trek, Monk is listed in the credits as composer along with fellow musician, Theo Bleckmann. In 1995, Monk went where no experimental artist had gone before: Star Trek. No one was doing anything like that at the time.”Ĩ. “This was the absolute breakthrough piece for me. “I was going for a totally synaesthetic, integrated, perceptual… a kind of poetry of the senses,” Monk said. In addition to performance and music, the piece incorporates the smell of formaldehyde and burning tires. Originally performed in the Judson Memorial Church in 1966, Monk’s 16 Millimeter Earrings uniquely called upon all senses of the audience. Meredith Monk’s multi-sensory 16 Millimeter Earrings is one of the first of its kind. Taken in the context of the rural south where True Detective is set, it seems to fit perfectly with the unfolding mystery of the story.ħ. Much of Monk’s oeuvre has been described as pastoral and contemporary folk, which often has that haunting edge to it.

“ Core Chant” by Monk can be heard in episode 6 of True Detective. One of her songs was featured in True Detective. With New Wave… I mean there was a fascist element to the 80s, Reagan, Thatcher… I was reflecting a societal thing.”Ħ. But it was a reflection of a sensibility that I was intuiting that was coming up in the world. The piece became associated with part of the “New Wave” movement: “There’s a certain fascist element to, and I wasn’t conscious of that at the time. This became a very important work of hers called Turtle Dreams (Waltz). In the 80s Monk found musical concerts to be “boring,” so she began to incorporate simplified movements into her work without introducing an entire theatrical element. In Turtle Dreams (Waltz), Monk incorporated movement into musical performance. The New York Times wrote that Paris “serves to identify the two as charmingly antic travelers who move like stars, together and apart, along appointed paths through a constellation like the dimly glittering one above them.”ĥ. Here’s an excerpt from Paris, performed in the late 80s, a collaboration with theater director Ping Chong. Monk made theatrical pieces too (and experimented with fake mustaches). It does, however, try to suggest something of the atmosphere and mystery of a ghost story, the ghosts in this case being our ancestors.”Ĥ.

#Laying down listening to music gif professional#

Though it uses professional actors, it has no dialogue and no storyline in the ordinary sense. “Though it is inspired by historical fact,” Monk said in 1982, “the work is not a documentary. The result was a kind of ghost story that used documentary, fiction and dance.

Monk worked with Bob Rosen on a film called Ellis Islandto activate the tragic incidents that occurred there. Monk made a haunting film at Ellis Island. “Monk, typically, saw and heard only reasons to celebrate, and laugh.”ģ. So how did Monk react to the Brothers using her song? “I was laughing my head off,” she told Tom Service. In the background Meredith Monk’s “ Walking Song” can be heard playing throughout Maude’s studio. Undoubtedly, the Coen Brothers posit Maude as an archetypal pseudo-intellectual in order to critique the character type. When the Dude first encounters Maude Lebowski, she is being hurtled through space, flinging paint in every direction. Maude was listening to Meredith Monk when she makes her debut in The Big Lebowski. Monk is also a filmmaker…” One of her films, Book of Days, was a visceral flirtation with a television audience in the early 90s.Ģ. As the New York Times wrote in 1990: Monk has created “dances that were operas, operas that were dances and mythic theater pieces that were operas and dances.