Join us for a very special listening party, celebrating the release of Meredith Monk’s newest album, 'Cellular Songs,' on ECM Records. Performed by the women of the acclaimed Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble (Monk, Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Joanna Lynn-Jacobs and Allison Sniffin) and percussionist, John Hollenbeck, 'Cellular Songs' features some of Monk’s most adventurous and daring writing for the voice, paired with violin, piano, body percussion and keyboard.
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Turning attention inward to the very fabric of life itself, shimmering, multi-dimensional musical forms evoke such biological processes as layering, replication, division, and mutation. “Some of the pieces have much more dissonance and chromatic harmonies, and the forms are almost like three-dimensional sculptures,” Monk notes. “Earlier, my music had much more to do with layering. Now you can almost see or hear the piece rotating as if it were a sculpture in space, though it's a musical form." Developed from her music-theater work of the same name, Cellular Songs is the second part of a trilogy of interdisciplinary performance works exploring our relationship with the natural world.
In the state-of-the-art sonic environment at National Sawdust, you’re invited to sit back and immerse yourself in the world of Cellular Songs, alongside Monk and fellow contributors to the album. CDs will also be available for purchase.
This is a seated performance. If you require accessibility accommodations, please email boxoffice@nationalsawdust.org.
ABOUT MEREDITH MONK
Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director, choreographer, filmmaker, and creator of new opera, music-theater works, films and installations. Recognized as one of the most unique and influential artists of our time, she is a pioneer of what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance”. Celebrated internationally, her work has been presented at major venues throughout the world. Over the last six decades Monk has received numerous awards and honors including a MacArthur Fellowship, Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters from the Republic of France, induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and a National Medal of Arts. She has recorded with the ECM New Series label since 1981 and in 2022 was honored with a 13-disc box set of her work, Meredith Monk: The Recordings. Selected scores of her work are available through Boosey & Hawkes. Recently Monk celebrated her 60th Performance Season with a series of concerts, residencies and special events centered in New York City, including the North American premiere of Indra’s Net, her third work in a trilogy exploring our interdependent relationship with nature, at the Park Avenue Armory. This fall she will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Music at the Venice Biennale.