{"product_id":"meredith-monk-calling","title":"Meredith Monk: Calling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComposer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker and choreographer, Meredith Monk has united music, theater and dance to forge a new creative idiom exploring the human voice as instrument that has proved enormously influential for musicians and artists from Bruce Nauman and Terry Riley to Björk and John Zorn. Since the 1960s, she has created performances at the Guggenheim Museum rotunda (the first artist to do so), performed in public car parks and on opera stages, and recorded numerous acclaimed albums with ECM. Her music has been used in films by Jean-Luc Godard (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNouvelle Vague\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), the Coen Brothers (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Big Lebowski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and David Byrne (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTrue Stories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), and she has directed two films (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEllis Island\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBook of Days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003cbr\u003eThis catalog is the first overview of her work, featuring previously unpublished archival material, scores, notations, drawings and photographs, as well as an insightful conversation with Monk and essays by acclaimed writers and curators such as Andrea Lissoni, Rick Moody, Timothy Morton, Teresa Retzer, Beatrix Ruf, Anna Schneider, Adam Shatz and Louise Steinman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WAC IH3","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49365959246119,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0189\/1367\/files\/40482504-E9E4-4294-BB87-2AED14E0E453.jpg?v=1734011954","url":"https:\/\/shop.walkerart.org\/products\/meredith-monk-calling","provider":"Walker Art Center","version":"1.0","type":"link"}