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2025
Mamnoon for Shirin (Music Composition)
Cantering Song for Bruce (Music Composition)
Cellular Songs (Recording)

2024
Carillon Call (Music Composition)
Cello-Bassoon Exchange (Music Composition)
Cello Talk (Music Composition)

2023
Indra’s Net (Music Composition, Music-Theater Work)
Offering Shrine (Video, Installation)
Songs of Ascension Shrine (Video, Installation)
Meredith Monk. Calling (Exhibition)

2022
May the Dark Ignorance of Sentient Beings Be Dispelled (Music Composition)
Harp and Bow (Music Composition)
Meredith Monk: The Recordings (Recording)

2021
Indra’s Net (Concert Version) (Music Composition, Music-Theater Work)
Rotation Shrine (Video, Installation)
Rotation (Music Composition, Video, Installation)

2020
Anthem (Music Composition)
Simple Sorrow (Music Composition)
MEMORY GAME (Recording)

2019
Dialogue (Music Composition)

2018
Cellular Songs (Music-Theater Work)
Bloodline Shrine (Installation)
Hand Mandala (Video)
Hand Reflection (Video)

2017
Cellular Songs (Music Composition)

2016
Migration (Music Composition)
Long Life Song (Music Composition)
On Behalf of Nature (Recording)

2015
Backlight (Music Composition)
Lullaby For Lise (Music Composition)
Girlchild Diary (Video)

2014
Piano Songs (Recording)
Radio Songs (Recording)

2013
On Behalf of Nature (Music Composition, Music-Theater Work)
Meredith Monk: Solo Concert 1980 (Recording)

2012
Realm Variations (Music Composition)
Wedding March (Music Composition)
MONK MIX: Remixes & Interpretations of Music by Meredith Monk (Recording)

2011
Quilting (Music Composition)
Songs of Ascension (Recording)

2010
WEAVE for Two Voices, Chamber Orchestra and Chorus (Music Composition)
Education of the Girlchild Revisited (Opera)
Sheaving (Music Composition)
16 Millimeter Earrings (1966/1998) (Installation)

2009
Ascension Variations (Site-Specific Work)
Beginnings (Recording)

2008
Songs of Ascension (Music-Theater Work, Site-Specific Work)
impermanence (Recording)

2007
Basket Rondo (Music Composition)
Three Heavens and Hells (Choral Version) (Music Composition)

2006
impermanence (part 2) (Music Composition)
impermanence (Music -Theater Work)
eye portraits from impermanence (Video)

2005
Night (new orchestration) (Music Composition)
Gotham Lullaby (new arrangement) (Recording)
Vocal Gestures (Exhibit)

2004
Stringsongs (Music Composition)
impermanence (part 1) (Music Composition)
The Impermanence Project (Music -Theater Work)
Impermanence portraits (Video)
Archeology of an Artist 2 (Exhibition)

2003
Possible Sky (Music Composition)
Last Song (Music Composition)

2002
mercy (Music-Theater Work)
Show People: Downtown Directors and the Play of Time (Exhibition)
Eclipse Variations (Installation)

2001
mercy (Music-Theater Work)
Refractive Voices (Music Composition)
Ancestor Shout (Music Composition)
Little Breath Motor (Music Composition)
Boys 1; Boys 2; Boys 3 (Music Composition)

2000
Micki Suite (Music Composition)
Eclipse Variations (Music Composition)

1999
Clarinet Study #1 (Music Composition)
Cello Study #1 (Music Composition)
Trumpet Study #1 (Music Composition)
Shrines (Exhibition)

1998
Magic Frequencies: a science fiction chamber opera (Opera)
Art Performs Life: Merce Cunningham/ Meredith Monk/ Bill T. Jones (Exhibition)
16 Millimeter Earrings (Installation)
ATLAS (Installation)

1997
Steppe Music (Music Composition)
Volcano Songs (Recording)

1996
The Politics of Quiet: a music theater oratorio (Music-Theater Work)
A Celebration Service (Music-Theater Work)
Monk and the Abbess: The Music of Meredith Monk and Hildegard von Bingen (Recording)
Archeology of an Artist (Exhibition)

1995
Nightfall (Music Composition)
Denkai and Krikiki Chants (Music Compositions)

1994
Volcano Songs (Solo) (Music Composition)
St. Petersburg Waltz (Solo Piano Version) (Music Composition)
American Archeology: Roosevelt Island (Site-Specific Work)
Volcano Songs (Music-Theater Work)
Volcano Songs: Solos (Music Compositions)
Faces (Video)

1993
Custom Made (Music Compositions)
Steppe Music (Excerpt)
Volcano Songs: Duets
St. Petersburg Waltz (Solo Piano, 2 Voices)
New York Requiem
Street Corner Pierrot and Evanescence (Choreography for Donald Ashwander’s Particular People)
ATLAS: an opera in three parts (Recording)
Return to Earth (Recording)

1992
Three Heavens and Hells (Music Composition)
Facing North (Recording)
Phantom Waltz and Ellis Island (Recording)

1991
ATLAS: an opera in three parts (Opera)

1990
Phantom Waltz (Music Composition)
Facing North (Music Composition, Music-Theater Work)
Book of Days (Recording)

1988
Fayum Music (Music Composition)
Light Songs (Music Composition)
Raven (Music Composition)
Cat Song (Music Composition)
Parlour Games (Music Composition)
Pavanne for Poe (Music Composition)
Book of Days (film score) (Music Composition)
Book of Days (Film)

1987
Duet Behavior (Music Composition)
The Ringing Place (Music Composition, Music-Theater Work)
Do You Be (Recording)

1986
Scared Song (Music Composition)
I Don’t Know (Music Composition)
Double Fiesta (Music Composition)
String (Music Composition)
Window in 7’s (Music Composition)
Acts from Under and Above (Music-Theater Work)
Our Lady of Late: The Vanguard Tapes (Recording)

1985
Book of Days (Music Composition)
Window Song (Music Composition)
Road Song (Music Composition)

1984
Panda Chant I (Music Composition)
Panda Chant II (Music Composition)
Graduation Song (Music Composition)

1983
Tokyo Cha-Cha (Music Composition)
Engine Steps (Music Composition)
2 Men Walking (Music Composition)
The Games: a science fiction opera (Music Composition, Opera)
Turtle Dreams (Cabaret) (Music-Theater Work)
Turtle Dreams (Recording)
Turtle Dreams (Waltz) (Video)
Mermaid Adventures (Film)

1982
View No.1 (Music Composition)
View No.2 (Music Composition)
Paris (Video)

1981
Specimen Days: a Civil War opera (Opera)
Ellis Island (Music Composition)
Turtle Dreams (Waltz) (Music-Theater Work)
Music Concert with Film (Music-Theater Work)
Dolmen Music (Recording)
Ellis Island (Film)
Silver Lake with Dolmen Music (Installation)

1980
Turtle Dreams (Waltz) (Music Composition)

1979
Dolmen Music (Music Composition)
Recent Ruins: an opera (Music-Theater Work)
Songs from the Hill / Tablet (Recording)
Ellis Island (short silent film) (Film)

1978
The Plateau Series (Music-Theater Work)
Biography (Recording)

1977
The Plateau Series (Music Composition)
Rally and Procession (Recording)
Quarry (Film)
16 Millimeter Earrings (Film)
Humboldt’s Current (Film)
Recent Ruins (Installation)

1976
Songs from the Hill (Music Composition)
Tablet (Music Composition)
Venice/Milan (Music Composition)
Quarry: an opera in three movements (Opera)
The Travelogue Series: Paris / Venice-Milan / Chacon (Music-Theater Work)

1975
Chacon (Music-Theater Work)
Quarry (short silent film) (Film)

1974
Anthology and Small Scroll (Music-Theater Work)
Chacon (Music Composition)
Our Lady of Late (Recording)

1973
Education of the Girlchild: an opera (Opera)
Our Lady of Late (Music Composition)

1972
Paris (Music Composition)

1971
Vessel: an opera epic (Music Composition, Opera)
Tour 8: Castle (Tour Series) (Site-Specific Work)
Plainsong for Bill’s Bojo (Music Composition)
Mountain (Film)
KEY: an album of invisible theater (Recording)

1970
A Raw Recital (Music Composition, Music-Theater Work)
Needle-Brain Lloyd and the Systems Kid (Music Composition, Site-Specific Work)
KEY: an album of invisible theater (Music Composition)
Tour 7: Factory (Tour Series) (Site-Specific Work)
Tour 6: Gym (Tour Series) (Site-Specific Work)
Tour 5: Glass (Tour Series) (Site-Specific Work)
Tour 4: Organ (Tour Series) (Site-Specific Work)

1969
Juice: a theatre cantata in three installments (Site-Specific Work)
Tour 3: Lounge (Tour Series) (Site-Specific Work)
Tour 2: Barbershop (Tour Series) (Site-Specific Work)
Tour: Dedicated to Dinosaurs (Tour Series) (Site-Specific Work)

1968
Co-op (Site-Specific Work)
Blueprint 3 – 5 (Blueprint Series) (Site-Specific Work)
Ball Bearing (Film, Installation)

1967
Candy Bullets and Moon (Music Composition, Recording)
Duet for Voice and Echoplex (Music Composition, Recording)
Overload / Blueprint 2 (Blueprint Series) (Site-Specific Work)
Blueprint (1) (Blueprint Series) (Site-Specific Work)
Children (Film)

1966
16 Millimeter Earrings (Music Composition, Early Interdisciplinary Work, Recording, Film)
Duet with Cat’s Scream and Locomotive (Music Composition, Early Interdisciplinary Work)
Portable (Early Interdisciplinary Work)

1965
Relâche (Early Interdisciplinary Work)
Blackboard (Early Interdisciplinary Work)
Radar (Early Interdisciplinary Work)
The Beach (Early Interdisciplinary Work)
Cartoon (Early Interdisciplinary Work)

1964
Break (Early Interdisciplinary Work)

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