Recordings

Chronological List

The Wolfman, Source 4, Composer-Performer Editions, 1966

Untitled Mixes and The Wolfman, on Explosions, featuring the Bob James Trio, ESP 1009, 1965

In Memoriam...CRAZY HORSE (Symphony), on Music from the ONCE Festival, Advance, 1964

She Was A Visitor, on Extended Voices (Brandeis Chamber Chorus), CBS Odyssey, 1967 (re-released on Lovely Music)

Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon, on Electronic Sound, Mainstream MS-5010, 1971 (re-released on Lovely Music)

In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women, Cramps (Italy) CRSCD 103, 1974/91

In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt), on 10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces, 1750 Arch Records, LP S-1752. Compilation. 1995

Private Parts aka Private Parts (The Record), Lovely Music, LP 1001; CD 1001, 1978/90

Automatic Writing, Lovely Music, LP  1002, 1979 (Re-released on CD)

Sonata: Christopher Columbus Crosses to the New World in the Nina,the Pinta and the Santa Maria Using Only Dead Reckoning and A Crude Astrolabe, on Just for the Record, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, piano, Lovely Music, LP 1062, 1979; CD 1062 2008

Interiors Without Flash, on Big Ego, Giorno Poetry Systems, GPS 012-013, 1979

The Bar, (from Perfect Lives,) Lovely Music, LP  4904, 1981

Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo): The Lessons, Lovely Music, LP  4908, 1981

Perfect Lives, opera for television (1983), Lovely Music, CA 4913-47 (2 tapes), 1983

Atalanta (Acts of God), opera box, full libretto, live recording, Lovely Music, Ltd. LP  3301-3 (3 LP s), 1985

Yellow Man With Heart With Wings, Lovely Music, CD 1003, 1990

Odalisque, on Full Spectrum Voice, Thomas Buckner, baritone, Lovely Music, CD 3021, 1991

Perfect Lives, opera for television (1983), Lovely Music, CD 4917 (3 CDs), 1991

Atalanta (Acts of God), Lovely Music, CD 3301 (2 CDs), 1997

Improvement (Don Leaves Linda), Elektra/Nonesuch 79289(2), 1992

Factory Preset, on A Chance Operation, John Cage tribute, Koch International 3-7238-2 Y6x2, 1993

Van Cao's Meditation, on With and Without Memory, Lois Svard, piano, Lovely Music, CD 3051, 1994

The Producer Speaks, on Sign of the Times, Thomas Buckner, baritone, Lovely Music, CD 3022, 1994

Outcome Inevitable, on Outcome Inevitable, the Relache Ensemble, O.O.Discs OO#18, 1994

eL/Aficionado 1994, Lovely Music, CD 1004, 1994

Love Is A Good Example, on A Confederacy of Dances, Vol. 2, Einstein Records EIN 003, 1995

Tract and Superior Seven, New World Records, CD 80649-2, 1996

Automatic Writing (includes She Was A Visitor and Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon), Lovely Music, CD 1002, 1996

in memoriam...KIT CARSON (opera) (excerpt), on Ten Years of Essential Music, Monroe Street Music, MSM 60101, 1997

Late At Night the Artist Works On His Piano Concerto Oblivious To the Noise, on CD Connection, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA (date?)

Your Money My Life Goodbye, Lovely Music, CD 1005, 1999

String Quartet Describing the Motions of Large Real Bodies and How Can I Tell the Difference), on Robert Ashley, Alga Marghen, Plana-A 10NMN.030, 1999

Dust, Lovely Music, CD 1006 (2 CDs), 2000

The Fox, The Wolfman, The Wolfman Tape and The Bottleman), on Wolfman, Alga Marghen, Plana-A 20NMN.048, 2002

In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Woman, Lovely Music, CD 4921, 2002

In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt), on 10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces, (originally released by 1750 Arch Records) Other Minds, Inc., OM CD 1006-2, 2003

Sonata, The Fourth of July, Details, Fives, in memoriam ... CRAZY HORSE (Symphony), Quartet, on Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966, New World Records, CD 80567 (boxed set of 5 cds)

In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt), on 10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces, Other Minds, CD 1006, Compilation. 2004

Don't Get Your Hopes Up and Empty Words, on Chanteuse, Lovely Music, CD 4001, 2004

Celestial Excursions (excerpt), Hören Sagen, KlangZeit, Münster, 2004

Celestial Excursions, Lovely Music, CD 1007, 2005

Foreign Experiences, Lovely Music, CD 1008, 2006

Now Eleanor's Idea, Lovely Music, CD 1009, 2007

Tap Dancing In The Sand, Hidden Similarities, Outcome Inevitable, in memoriam ... ESTEBAN GOMEZ, and She Was A Visitor, on Tap Dancing in the Sand, featuring the MAE Ensemble, Unsounds, 15U, 2007

Yes, But Is It Edible (voice Thomas Buckner), Practical Anarchism (Ashley). (Also, Marchetti's Nei Mari Del Sud. Musica in Secca, De Musicorum Inflicitate Una Variozione Dolente, and Musica Per Un Bicchiere Non Molto Grande) Choose Records 011, vinyl, 2007

Concrete, Lovely Music, CD 2010, 2008

The Wolfman, on Source, music of the avant garde, Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971, Pogus Productions, CD P21050-2 (2 cds), 2008

Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon, on Earle Brown Contemporary Music Series Vol.5, Wergo, CD6940 2, 2010

Atalanta (Acts of God) Vol. II, (Empire, Au Pair and The Etchings) Lovely Music, CD 3303-4, 2010

For Andie Springer, on Gertrudes, New World Records 80771, 2015

Crash, Lovely Music, CD 5001-2, 2015

Private Parts, Lovely Music, LP 1001, 2018

Automatic Writing, Lovely Music, LP 1002, 2019

Improvement (Don Leaves Linda), Lovely Music, CD 5002, 2019

Foreign Experiences, Lovely Music, CD 5003, 2020

eL Aficionado 2021, Lovely Music, CD 5004, 2021

Odalisque, The Mystery of the River, The Producer Speaks, When Famous Last Words Fail You, and World War III Just the Highlights on Spontaneous Musical Invention, Recital Records, R98, 2023

VIDEO & FILM

Dr. Chicago: a film trilogy by George Manupelli, starring Alvin Lucier, Mary Ashley, Steve Paxton, Claude Kipnis, and Robert Ashley. 1968-71

Atalanta Strategy (28:40 minutes/color/NTSC or PAL), Lovely Music, VHS, 1986

Perfect Lives, Opera for Television (7 episodes), (175 minutes/color/NTSC & PAL), Lovely Music, 2 DVD, 1995

Four American Composers: a series of one hour films about Robert Ashley, John Cage, Philip Glass and Meredith Monk, directed by Peter Greenaway, Translatlantic Films (London) Mystic Fire Video (New York), 1982/91

Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo): The Lessons (28:40 minutes/color/NTSC or PAL), Lovely Music, VHS, 1981

What She Thinks (Music with Roots in the Aether) (58:40 minutes/color/NTSC), Lovely Music, VHS, 1976

Title Withdrawn (Music with Roots in the Aether) (58:40 minutes/color/NTSC), Lovely Music, VHS, 1976

Music with Roots in the Aether (7 2-hour programs, Lovely Music, 1976) Now available on Vimeo.

Perfect Lives, Opera for Television (7 episodes), (175 minutes/color/Blu-ray), Lovely Music, 2 Blu-ray, 2022. Now available on Vimeo.