Aos Pedaços: A Música de Meredith Monk Trailer Oficial

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00:00I usually think that each artist has this one story that they're just telling over and over again,

00:07that basically they're telling it in different ways.

00:09One day, around 1965, I suddenly had a flash that the voice could have the same flexibility that the spine could have,

00:17that it could move like a hand.

00:25Meredith was doing things that were kind of boundary breaking.

00:29She, amongst all of us, I think was the uniquely gifted one, is the uniquely gifted one.

00:35There was no path for a woman composer, but she wasn't intimidated and she just plowed forward.

00:45She had to fight to be acknowledged in the performing arts world.

00:48The critics were really vicious to her.

00:52Self-centered exploration of her own psyche.

00:55This monk just seems unwilling to edit herself.

00:57I left early, is what I had seen.

00:59I might have even written a letter to one of these guys.

01:03Saying, I'm going to live longer than you.

01:07It's a fight to survive.

01:10And now she's an old master.

01:13Meredith Monk.

01:14Bad review, good review, what does it end up coming out to?

01:18Not anything.

01:20Maybe this whole thing is a way that I affirm that I exist.

01:27I just keep on thinking about what's meaningful in this life.

01:30And to me, doing the work is still meaningful.

01:33And all the other stuff just falls away.

01:37And all the other stuff just falls away.

01:39So I'm later.

01:49No, no.

01:53No.