As leader Collaborations ;with
News from Babel •
Work Resumed on the Tower (
Recommended, 1984); Parkins,
Chris Cutler,
Lindsay Cooper,
Dagmar Krause •
Letters Home (Recommended, 1986); Parkins, Cutler, Cooper, Krause ft.
Robert Wyatt,
Dagmar Krause,
Sally Potter,
Phil Minton ;with
Ikue Mori • Parkins & Mori,
Phantom Orchard (Mego, 2004) • Phantom Orchard,
Orra (Tzadik, 2008); ft.
Cyro Baptista, Makigami Koichi, Josh Quillen, Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje • Phantom Orchard Orchestra,
Trouble In Paradise (Tzadik, 2012); ft. Sara Parkins, Shayna Dunkelman, Ratkje, Maggie Parkins,
Hild Sofie Tafjord • Phantom Orchard Ensemble,
Through the Looking Glass (Tzadik, 2014); ft.
Sylvie Courvoisier, S. Parkins, Ratkje, M. Parkins ;with No Safety •
This Lost Leg (
RecRec Music, 1989); Parkins, Chris Cochrane, Doug Seidel, Ann Rupel, Pippin Branett •
Spill (Knitting Factory Works, 1992); Parkins, Cochrane, Seidel, Rupel, Tim Spelios •
Live at the Knitting Factory (Knitting Factory Works, 1993); Parkins, Cochrane, Seidel, Rupel, Spelios •
Live in Italy (
Cuneiform Records, 2021) ;with
Elliott Sharp • Elliott Sharp / Zeena Parkins,
Psycho–Acoustic (Victo, 1994) • Psycho-Acoustic,
Blackburst (Victo, 1996) ;with
Skeleton Crew •
The Country of Blinds (Rift, 1986); Parkins,
Fred Frith,
Tom Cora •
Free Dirt (Live) (Klanggalerie, 2021); Parkins, Frith, Cora ;Other collaborations • OWT (Parkins & David Linton),
Good As Gold (
Homestead Records, 1989) • Joane Hétu / Diane Labrosse / Parkins / Danielle P. Roger / Tenko,
La Légende De La Pluie (
Ambiances Magnétiques, 1992) •
William Hooker /
Lee Ranaldo / Parkins,
The Gift Of Tongues (Knitting Factory Works, 1995) • Chris Cutler / Parkins,
Shark! (Megacorp, 1999) • Parkins /
Nels Cline /
Thurston Moore,
Live At Easthampton Town Hall (JMZ, 2001) • Weightless Animals (Parkins,
Kaffe Matthews, Mandy McIntosh),
Weightless Animals (Annette Works, 2004) • Parkins,
Frederic Rzewski,
James Tenney,
Music for String Quartet & Percussion (
New World Records, 2013); with Eclipse Quartet (S. Parkins, Sarah Thornblade, Alma Lisa Fernandez, M. Parkins) and
William Winant • Parkins /
Pauline Oliveros,
Presença Series #01 (Lucky Kitchen / Fundação de Serralves, 2015) • MZM (
Myra Melford, Parkins,
Miya Masaoka),
MZM (
Infrequent Seams, 2017) • Green Dome (Parkins, Ryan Sawyer, Ryan Ross Smith),
Thinking in Stitches (Case Study Records, 2019) • Parkins /
Brian Chase,
Live at San Damiano Mission (Chaikin Records / Case Study Records, 2019) • Parkins /
Wobbly,
Triplicates (
Relative Pitch Records, 2019) • Parkins / Jeff Kolar,
SCALE (Two Rooms, 2019) • Parkins / Mette Rasmussen / Ryan Sawyer,
Glass Triangle (Relative Pitch, 2021)
As instrumentalist With Björk •
Telegram (
One Little Indian, 1996) •
Vespertine (One Little Indian, 2001) •
Drawing Restraint 9 (One Little Indian, 2005) •
Biophilia (One Little Indian, 2011)
With Alex Cline •
For People in Sorrow (
Cryptogramophone, 2013)
With Nels Cline •
The Inkling (Cryptogramophone, 2000) •
Destroy All Nels Cline (Atavistic, 2001) •
Macroscope (
Mack Avenue, 2014) •
Lovers (
Blue Note, 2016)
With Fred Frith •
The Country of Blinds (Rift, 1986) as
Skeleton Crew •
Step Across the Border (
RecRec, 1990) •
That House We Lived In (Fred, 1991 [2003]) •
Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire (I Dischi di Angelica, 1999) •
Traffic Continues (
Winter & Winter, 2000) with
Ensemble Modern •
Ragged Atlas (
Intakt, 2010) as Cosa Brava •
The Letter (Intakt, 2012) as Cosa Brava •
Z Sides (Klanggalerie, 2024) as Cosa Brava
With Maybe Monday •
Unsquare (Intakt, 2008)
With Yoko Ono •
Blueprint for a Sunrise (Capitol, 2001)
With Marc Ribot • ''
Requiem for What's His Name'' (
Les Disques du Crépuscule, 1992)
With John Zorn •
Cobra (
Hat Hut, 1987) • ''
John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory'' (
Knitting Factory, 1997) •
The Bribe (
Tzadik, 1998)
With Tin Hat Trio •
Book of Silk (
Ropeadope/
Rykodisc, 2004)
With Bobby Previte •
Terminals (
Cantaloupe, 2014) ==Notes==