ABOUT

PC Muñoz's 2023 releases so far include a new album with kaleidoscopic pianist Ira Kamin, St. Anne's Band, a live EP with Red Fast Luck (duo with multi-reed sorcerer David Boyce) and "Legacy", a new solo recording with a limited-edition art card designed by Jerilyn Guerrero.

Muñoz's music-making aesthetic as a composer, percussionist, recording artist and producer bridges the gap between pop songcraft, musique concrète, free jazz, and the insistent rhythms of funk and hip-hop. His body of work as an artist and producer includes GRAMMY®-nominated contemporary classical music with composer/cellist Joan Jeanrenaud as well as collaborations with rock legend Jackson Browne, poet /chanteuse Ingrid Chavez, Oakland hip-hop heavyweight Kev Choice, a cappella jazz masters SoVoSo, virtuoso Van-Anh Vo, renowned choreographer/composer Robert Moses, and many more artists across a wide array of genres. Muñoz is also an avid and admired player of the SlapStick, a musical instrument developed by Bay Area inventor/musician Andy Graham (click here for video). In addition to his solo work, Muñoz regularly performs in Red Fast Luck (a duo project with multi-reed player David Boyce) and in a creative-music chamber trio with violinist Matthew Szemela (Berkeley Symphony) and cellist Alex Kelly (Bob Weir's Wolf Pack). RIGHTSTARTER, PC's creative/dialectic initiative with rapper DEM ONE, can be found here. RIGHTSTARTER's latest single "Write My Eulogy in Blood" is available on all streaming services and downloadable here; they premiered their multidisciplinary project Black/Pacific at the 2022 San José Jazz Summer Fest.

PC began his music career in the early 90s as an R&B/Gospel drummer and indie producer while teaching elementary school by day. In the late 90s he launched a solo artist/label entrepreneur career, releasing his acclaimed debut solo disc The Trouble I'd Bring You on his own label, Beevine Records. Beevine also released the follow-up albums A Good Deed in a Weary World, California, andTwenty Haiku. In 2005, PC delved further into production and artist development, co-founding the unique record label/private recording studio entity Talking House Productions with Seagate CEO Steve Luczo and 5 close music industry colleagues; Talking House released PC's solo release Grab Bag. The Talking House facility was later re-christened Studio Trilogy and hosted everyone from Bay Area emerging artists to pop megastars like Lady Gaga, T.I., and will.i.am before being sold in 2016. The building is currently the home of Empire Distribution.

Muñoz is a current Mosaic America Fellow. His writings have been published in DRUM!, Electronic Musician, Grammypro.com, Seagate Creative, and more. A multiracial Chamoru, PC is one of the featured writers in the award-winning collection from University of Hawai'i Press, Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia (2019) and the 2022 collection Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures, also from University of Hawai'i Press. In the past he was the 2022 Quinteto Latino Composer-in-Residence, a 2015-2018 Board Governor for the SF Chapter of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs, a 2013 Equilibrium Fellow at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, and the first Director of Education for the former San José Symphony. He is the first Director of Education & Community Engagement for the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. He resides in San Francisco with his wife and son.