ABOUT

PC Muñoz's latest release is "The Master Thief", an eschatological true-crime story featuring cyborg musician Onyx Ashanti along with cellist Joan Jeanrenaud and drummer Kevin Carnes. Originally released as an exclusive free download by the Talking House label, this is the first time "The Master Thief" has been mastered and available on bandcamp and all the streaming services.

PC Muñoz's music-making aesthetic as a composer, percussionist, recording artist and producer bridges the gap between songcraft, musique concrète, free improvisation, 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, 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) in a creative-music chamber trio with violinist Matthew Szemela (Berkeley Symphony) and cellist Alex Kelly (Bob Weir's Wolf Pack) and in a piano/drums duo with kaleidoscopic pianist Ira Kamin. RIGHTSTARTER, PC's creative/dialectic initiative with rapper DEM ONE and vocalist Bryan Dyer, can be found here. RIGHTSTARTER premiered their multidisciplinary project Black/Pacific at the 2022 San José Jazz Summer Fest and has two singles, "Write My Eulogy in Blood" and "Noble Savage" on the streaming services.

PC began his music career in the early 90s as an R&B/Gospel drummer and indie producer. 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 and a current board Governor for the San Francisco Chapter of the Recording Academy (he previously served from 2015-2018). His writings have been published in DRUM!, Electronic Musician, Grammy.com, Seagate Creative, and more. A multiracial CHamoru, PC is one of the featured writers in the award-winning collections from University of Hawai'i Press, Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia (2019) and Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures, (2022) as well as New CHamoru Literature (2023) and the upcoming Na'huyong Anthology from the Unibetsedat Guahan (2026). In the past he was the 2022 Quinteto Latino Composer-in-Residence, an Equilibrium Fellow at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, and the first Director of Education for the former San José Symphony. He is the current Director of Programming for the The Freight in Berkeley.