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Meredith Monk, the voice as a spark of a sonic revolution
In 1974, Meredith Monk, 82, moved into a fifth-floor apartment in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. “Back then, this beautiful loft you see was nothing more than a dusty, broken-down warehouse ...
In 1974, Meredith Monk, 82, moved into a fifth-floor apartment in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. “Back then, this beautiful loft you see was nothing more than a dusty, broken-down warehouse full of rats,” says the American singer, post-minimalist composer, and performer, as she turns her computer screen to show a large, uncluttered living room that still preserves the original floorboards (“indestructible wood,” she says proudly) from the old textile factories of lower Manhattan. “When I moved in, there was just a toilet and a sink — that was all we artists who were just starting out could afford.”