DESCRIPTION:
Contributing pianist and composer Vijay Iyer talks about his collaboration with poet and vocalist Latasha Diggs to create an interpretation and partial remix of Meredith Monk's "Rain" and "Pinetree Lullaby" from "Dolmen Music" for this forthcoming double CD. The quote he references is from an interview with Meredith Monk called "Authentic Voice" in which she says "[In 1965] I had a revelation that the voice could be like the body and that it could have a kind of articulation and flexibility and fluidity like the body has."

Get involved and help make the CD happen here:
http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/project/meredith_monk_remixes_interpretations_cd

Produced by Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) and The House Foundation for the Arts. Scheduled for release in January 2012.

Artists include Bang on a Can, Björk/Brodsky Quartet, DJ Spooky, Don Byron, Sussan Deyhim, Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), John Hollenbeck/Theo Bleckmann, Henry Grimes, Vijay Iyer, King Britt, Rubin Kodheli, Lukas Ligeti/Pyrolator, Arto Lindsay, Matt Marks (Alarm Will Sound), High Priest (Anti-Pop Consortium), Gabriel Prokofiev, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), DJ Rekha & RajStar, Todd Reynolds, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Scanner, Shodekeh, and Pamela Z. Visual artist Rob Pruitt will be designing a customized booklet for the CD itself, and John Schaefer, host of WNYC's Soundcheck, will provide the liner notes.