Key, 1977

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Meredith Monk: Stimme, Orgel, jüdische Harfe
Daniel Ira Sverdlik, Dick Higgins, Collin Walcott, Lanny Harrison, Mark Monstermaker: Stimmen

This recording contains Meredith Monk's earliest compositions for voice. The songs that make up "Key" were composed and performed in a 3-year period between 1967 and 1970, when Monk collected them into this 45-minute "invisible theater" experience.
"In 'Key" I wanted to create a constantly shifting ambience. Each song dealt with a different vocal character, landscape, technical concern or emotional quality. I was trying for a visceral, kinetic song form that had the abstract qualities of a painting or a dance. I knew that I didn't want to set music to a text; for me, the voice itself was a language which seemed to speak more eloquently than words. I chose certain phonemes for their particular sound qualities. In a sense, each song became a world in itself with its own timbre, texture and impulse." (Meredith Monk)

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Meredith Mong verfügt über einen Stimmunfang von drei Oktaven.
"I come from a long tradition of singers. I'm a fourth generation singer in my family, so I really had something that I could work with that was just given to me. It was really about finding all the voices within my voice and all the possibilities of producing sound and voice as sound. I think early on I realized that I didn't want to have words in the songs because I felt that the voice itself was a language and that within it was limitless possibilities of color and texture, breath and gender, age, landscape and character." (Meredith Monk)

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