Piece Comment

Review of Vanished


I think Monika Mueller could develop an interesting kind of commentary, a sort of Snapshot from Abroad. This piece and one she did called Wednesday 3PM have an exotic, mysterious appeal. They're not about anything so much as musings about things seen and unseen, heard and overheard. They're edgy and writerly and suggestive, and they stay with you the way curious images do. Her accent and sexy voice and the music these pieces are mixed with lend a kind of foreign, strange perspective that I think listeners would respond to and look forward to.