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Satie’s Vexations… was Meredith Monk there at the 1963 complete performance? Did she stay there long enough to get the show for free?

You never really need an excuse for introducing the Ursonate of Kurt Schwitters into the conversation, but could Monk’s vocalising style have anything to do with this?

DJ Shadow’s 1996 track Midnight in a perfect world is one of the better known uses of a Meredith Monk sample

Death will come for all of us, sooner or later, but if it speaks to me like this, I might have a hard time resisting…

Here's a later interview

...and a recent Guardian article

Tom also mentions this in the Podcast.

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