ABOUT

After over a decade focusing on percussion, production, and instrumental compositions, PC Muñoz returns to his spoken word roots with the upcoming album Little Ransoms, due in Spring 2026. Comprised of commissioned writings from literary and arts entities from around the world and featuring several special guest musical collaborators, the album promises a sonically diverse and thematically engaging return to form. Little Ransoms is PC's first spoken word collection in 21 years, since the award-winning Twenty Haiku project.

PC Muñoz's music-making aesthetic 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, and Red Fast Triple Luck, a permutation of Red Fast Luck with Asian-American jazz legend Francis Wong and Pinoy low-end specialist Chris Trinidad.

Muñoz is a current Mosaic America Fellow and a current Board Governor for the San Francisco Chapter of the Recording Academy. 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 (2027). 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.