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Dolmen Music is the 1981 album by modern classical artist and composer Meredith Monk. This was her fourth album, her first for the ECM label, and released under the label's ECM New Series. The album is known to some audiences as a sample source in DJ Shadow's "Midnight In A Perfect World". This CD is said to have been released in 1994.,

Facing North is a 1992 collaborative album between Meredith Monk and Robert Een. This was released on the ECM label as part of their ECM New Series.

Blurring the Edges Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Meredith Brooks' debut album, Blurring the Edges is one of the most blatant examples of post-Alanis Morissette marketing by the record industry. At her musical core, Brooks is more like Sheryl Crow – namely, a classic rocker with slightly edgy lyrics. She even works with producer David Ricketts, the former partner of Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club collaborator, David Baerwald. Ricketts gives Blurring the Edges a radio-friendly polish, one that glosses over any of the grit in Brooks' songs. And on the album's first single, "Bitch," Brooks and Ricketts devise an Alanis clone, from the semi-profane lyrics to the caterwauling chorus. "Bitch" isn't indicative of the rest of the album, which is considerably calmer and aimed at adult alternative stations, and while she fits neatly into the confines of that format, she doesn't really do anything to distinguish herself from the legions of similar post-alternative singer/songwriters. Blurring the Edges isn't necessarily a bad album – Brooks is a competent melodicist and her lyrics are occasionally promising – yet it isn't a distinctive one.

An unprecedented collection of recordings charting the earliest years of one of the world's most innovative and exciting renaissance women -composer, singer, performer, film director, visual artist and auteur Meredith Monk. Hand selected by Meredith from her personal archives, this fascinating compilation ranges from her first solo vocal performances in the mid-'60s, to ground-breaking works from the '70s up through 1980. An essential portrait of a vocal pioneer at her virtuosic and exploratory best.

Mercury Classics, Soundtrack & Score will release a soundtrack album for the British survival drama The End We Start From. The album features the film’s original music composed by Anna Meredith (Eighth Grade, Living with Yourself, Tuesday).

For five decades, vocalist-composer Meredith Monk has explored non-verbal vocal sound that lay beneath and beyond language. This exploration has led her to create an art that “sings, dances and meditates on timeless forces”. Voices and instruments have equal weight: sometimes each is heard alone; sometimes they are blended to form a new, mysterious sound; sometimes they are combined to create intricate, layered, yet transparent sonic landscapes.

Attraverso una rilettura critica della proposta filosofico-politica di Michel Foucault, il saggio
affronta la spinosa questione del potere nel campo dell’educazione, concentrandosi sull’elemento spaziale dell’istituzione scolastica. In particolare, il saggio analizza la struttura architettonica scolastica e la sua relazione con la città post-moderna, definita come ipercittà – città dei flussi, città-rete, città-panico –, in cui l’educazione diffusa e libertaria diventa un’alternativa necessaria al sistema educativo tradizionale. Obiettivo della formazione, secondo l’autore, dovrebbe essere la creazione di un soggetto etico capace di sfuggire da ogni dipendenza e asservimento, in contrasto con l’homo consumens. Le domande che attraversano indirettamente il saggio – a che cosa educare? Come educare? Perché educare?