Thinking in Stitches

2019, Case Study Records

Green Dome
Zeena Parkins — acoustic harp
Ryan Ross Smith — prepared piano electronics, modular synth, live coding
Ryan Sawyer — trap, percussion

Shahzad Ismaily, Figure Eight Studio — recording
D. James Goodwin, The Isokon — mixing, mastering









Captiva

2018, Good Child Music

Zeena Parkins — acoustic harp, objects, electronic
Matthew Ostrowski — collaboration harp processor programming

Lawson White, American Academy of Arts and Letters — recorde
Lawson White, Good Child Studio — mixed, mastered









Three Harps, Tuning Forks & Electronics

2017, Good Child Music

Zeena Parkins — acoustic harp, objects, electronics
Nuiko Wadden — acoustic harp, objects
Kristen Theriault — acoustic harp, objects
Megan Conley — acoustic harp

Guest
Ikue Mori — electronics on track IV, Tuning Forks

Lawson White, Good Child Studio — recorded, mixed   
Matt Agoglia, The Ranch Mastering — mastered









Zeena Parkins/Pauline Oliveros

2015, Lucky Kitchen

Limited edition vinyl release documenting two solo concerts from The Museum,
Fundação de Serralves in Porto, Portugal.

Zeena Parkins — harps, electronics, objects
Pauline Oliveros — accordion, electronics









The Adorables

2013, Cryptogramophone

Zeena Parkins — acoustic/electric harp, marxophone, mellotron, memory moog
Shayna Dunkelman — vibes, marimba, percussion
Michael Carter — electronics, programming

Guests
Deep Singh — percussion
Dave Sharm — percussion
Danny Blume — guitar
Kristin Slipp — voice

Danny Blume — co-production
Paul Antonell, Clubhouse Studio — ecorded            
Danny Blume, Hidden Quarry Studio — extra recording       
David Kean, Audtities Studio — mixed               
David Harrison — mastered









Zeena Parkins, Frederic Rzewski, James Tenney

2013, New World Records

s:c:a:t:t:e:r:i:n:g

William Winant — tom toms, snare, Lou Harrison bell instrument, chimes, various metal percussion
Zeena Parkins — spatialization, samples
Eclipse Quartet
Sara Parkins — violin
Sara Thornblade — violin
Maggie Parkins — cello
Alma Fernandez — viola

Guests
DD Dorvillier — vocals
Heather Kravas — vocals
Elizabeth Ward — vocals
Amanda Pina — vocals

Jeff Gauthier — producer
Les Stuck, Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College — recorded
Quentin Chiapetta — mixed
Rich Breen — additional mixing
Paul Zinman — mastered









Double Dupe Down

2012, Tzadik

A collection of sound cues written for films.

The Shape of Error — Abigail Child
Harpstrings and Lava — Daria Martin
We Got Lucky — DD Dorvillier
PSA No. 3 +7 — Cynthia Madansky
Oompie Kadoompie — Mandy McIntosh

Zeena Parkins — harps, electronics, keyboards, objects
Ikue Mori — electronics
Christian Marclay — turntables
Shelley Hirsch — voice
Okkyung Lee — cello
Maggie Parkins — cello
Sara Parkins — violin
James Staley — trombone
Matthew Welch — bagpipes
David Watson — bagpipes
William Winant — percussion
James Pugliese — percussion

David Kean, Audities Studio — recorded
Quentin Chiappetta, Media Noise — mixed
Scott Hull — mastered









Between the Whiles

2010, Table of the Elements

Zeena Parkins — acoustic and electric harps, keyboards, objects
Luciana Achugar — breathing
Levi Gonzalez — breathing
Eleanor Hullihan — breathing
Sara Parkins — violin
Jim Pugliese — percussion

Jamie Saft — recorded
David Kean, Audities Studio — mixed
James Plotkin — mastered









Necklace

2006, Tzadik

Zeena Parkins — harp, electronics
Doug Henderson — electronics
Eclipse Quartet
Sara Parkins — violin
Sara Thorblade — violin
Joanna Hood — viola
Maggie Parkins — cello
Dancers — Compagnie Sui Generis

Chad Fisher, Jamie Saft, David Kean — recorded
Doug Henderson, Micro-moose Studio — mixed
Scott Hull — mastered









Devotion

2004, Table of the Elements

Part of the Lanthanides series commemorating 10 years of existence of Table of the Elements, single sided limited-edition picture disk.

Zeena Parkins — harps
Raz Mesinai — percussion, effects, samples
Jim Pugliese — bells, marimba, vibes



Nightmare Alley [re-issue]

Table of the Elements, 2003

10-year anniversary special edition CD, in wooden box with booklet.

Zeena Parkins — electric and acoustic harps









$Shot [Lacey, Lauro, Parkins, Cornell]

2002, Case Study Records

Limited edition includes 3 designs in plastic, felt, porcelain

Zeena Parkins — tone generator, ring modulator, waldorf filter, korg ms20, memory moog, asr 10, casio cx 101, tambura, objects

Doug Henderson, Micro-Moose Studio — recorded, mixed
David Kean, Audities Studio — mastered           









Pan~Acousticon

1999, Tzadik

Language, listening, translation, radiance, loss and desire.

Gangster Band
Zeena Parkins — electric harp, piano, accordion, sampler
Sara Parkins — violin
Maggie Parkins — cello
Mark Stewart — guitar, cello, daxaphone
Jim Pugliese — percussion

Guest
Joe Trump — metal and snare

Elliott Sharp, Studio zOaR  — recorded, mixed
Allan Tucker — mastered
 








The Opium War: A Radio Play

1999, Einstein Records

Text by Ana Maria Simo

Zeena Parkins — electric and acoustic harps, tapes, sampler
Maggie Parkins — cello
Ikue Mori — drums, electronic percussion
Joe Trump — percussion
Chris Cochrane — guitar, voice
David Shea — turntables
DJ Olive — turntables
DD Dorvillier — voice
Jonathattn Bepler — voice
Tenko — voice

Actors
Ruth Maleczech
Lola Pashalinski
Mary Shultz
J Ed Araiza
Jeff Webster
KJ Sancez
Lisa Vidal

Elliott Sharp, Studio zOaR, 6/8 Studio — recorded
Elliott Sharp, Studio zOaR — mixed, mastered









No Way Back

1998, Atavistic

Zeena Parkins — electric and acoustic harps, tapes, sampler









Mouth=Maul=Betrayer

1996, Tzadik

Radical Jewish Culture composition for Tzadik Mouth= Maul=Betrayer is an interchange of voice and instrumental counterpoint, using texts from the lost 14th-19th Century European thieves’ language Rotwelsch, juxtaposed with observations of Jewish gangsters in 40’s and 50’s Chicago and NYC.

Gangster Band
Zeena Parkins — electric harp, sampler, piano
Sara Parkins — violin
Maggie Parkins — cello, voice
Mark Stewart — guitar, voice
Jim Pugliese — percussion

Guests
Carsten Dane — voice
Mattthias Breitenbach — voice
Andy Hass — didjeridu









Isabelle

1995, Avant

A stunning piece based on the life of Isabelle Eberhardt, the young Swiss
writer, explorer that fell in love with Northern Africa, worked as a journalist, dressed as a man, wrote mesmerizing short stories, married a soldier and died in a flash flood at the age of twenty-seven.

Gangster Band
Zeena Parkins — electric harp, sampler
Sara Parkins — violin
Maggie Parkins — cello
Lisa Crowder — piano

David Shea — co-production
Bryce Goggin, Baby Monster Studio — recorded, mixed
Allan Tucker — mastered
 







Nightmare Alley

1993, Table of the Elements

Zeena Parkins — electric and acoustic harps

Bryce Goggin, Baby Monster Studio — recorded, mixed
Elliott Sharp, Studio zOaR —mastered









Ursa’s Door

1992, Les Disques Victo

Zeena Parkins — electric harp, keyboards, found sounds, accordion, percussio
Ikue Mori — drums, electronic percussion
Chris Cochrane — guitar
Sara Parkins — violin, voice
Maggie Parkins — cello, voice

Bryce Goggin, Baby Monster Studio — recorded, mixed     
Elliott Sharp, Studio zOAr — mastered           









Something Out There

1987, No Man’s Land

Zeena Parkins — electric and acoustic harps

Guests
Sam Bennett — percussion
Tom Cora — cello
Wayne Horvitz — keyboards
Christian Marclay — turntables
Jim Mineses — drums
Ikue Mori — drums
James Staley — trombone

Kramer, Noise New York — recorded, mixed


Mark