| Impermanence | ||||
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| Released | March 18, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | January 2007 at Avatar Studios, New York | |||
| Genre | Minimalism | |||
| Length | 65:06 | |||
| Label | ECM New Series | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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Impermanence is the twelfth album by Meredith Monk, released on March 18, 2008 through ECM New Series.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Last Song" (for voices and piano) | Meredith Monk | 7:18 |
| 2. | "Maybe 1" (for 8 pianos) | Meredith Monk | 2:03 |
| 3. | "Little Breath" (for 4 voices, bass clarinet and elephant bells) | Meredith Monk | 1:44 |
| 4. | "Liminal" (for 4 voices and chamber ensemble) | Meredith Monk | 10:59 |
| 5. | "Disequilibrium" (for 6 voices and bicycle wheel) | Meredith Monk | 2:26 |
| 6. | "Particular Dance" (for 7 voices, double ocarina, anklung, Balinese flute, zaphoon, punji, piano and percussion) | Meredith Monk | 5:01 |
| 7. | "Between Song" (for 3 voices, clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, bells and vibraphone) | Meredith Monk | 6:10 |
| 8. | "Passage" (for 7 voices) | Meredith Monk | 1:59 |
| 9. | "Maybe 2" (for 6 voices, bass clarinet and bass drum) | Meredith Monk | 3:07 |
| 10. | "Skeleton Lines" (for voice and chamber ensemble) | Meredith Monk | 4:19 |
| 11. | "Slow Dissolve" (for chorus, violin, bass clarinet and glockenspiel) | Meredith Monk | 2:35 |
| 12. | "Totentanz" (for 2 voices and chamber ensemble) | Meredith Monk | 3:59 |
| 13. | "Sweep 1" (for paddle drums) | Bohdan Hilash, John Hollenbeck, Allison Sniffin | 1:28 |
| 14. | "Rocking" (for chorus, bass clarinet, marimba and vibraphone) | Meredith Monk | 5:17 |
| 15. | "Sweep 2" (for voice, ocean drum, Chinese temple bells, magnets and percussion) | Bohdan Hilash, John Hollenbeck, Allison Sniffin | 1:26 |
| 16. | "Mieke's Melody No. 5" (for chorus, piano and vibraphone) | Mieke van Hoek | 5:15 |
Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers and Jean-Luc Godard. Trip hop musician DJ Shadow sampled Monk's "Dolmen Music" on the song "Midnight in a Perfect World". In 2015, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.
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