ABOUT

PC Muñoz's singular 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, 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 to watch a video of PC playing this instrument). In addition to his solo work, Muñoz regularly performs in a duo project with multi-reed player David Boyce (Broun Fellinis, Black Quarterback) and in a chamber trio with violinist Matthew Szemela and cellist Alex Kelly. RIGHTSTARTER, PC's creative/dialectic initiative with rapper DEM ONE, can be found here. RIGHTSTARTER's new single "Write My Eulogy in Blood" is available on all streaming services and downloadable here.

PC's notable multidisciplinary collaborations include ongoing iterations of his touring multiracial identity performance piece HALF-BREED (which has been performed in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, San José, and Seattle) and frequent collaborations with renowned choreographer/composer Robert Moses. You can view the dance video of PC's noise composition for Cellista's multidisciplinary project RAGE here. Muñoz's 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.

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.

Muñoz is the current (2022) Quinteto Latino Composer-in-Residence and a current Mosaic America Fellow. In the past he was a 2015-2018 Board Governor and Education Committee Co-Chair for the SF Chapter of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs, a 2015 Dresher Ensemble Artist-in-Residence in Oakland, a 2014 Asian-American Cultural Center Grantee in San Francisco, a 2013 Equilibrium Fellow at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, and was 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.

For creative, collaborative, and education-oriented inquiries, contact PC directly via the CONTACT link on this site.

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