ABOUT

PC Muñoz's latest projects combine his longtime literary bent with the engaging production savvy of his music releases and the DIY aesthetic of independent film; the result is a distinctly 21st century mode of storytelling. You can catch a sneak-peek excerpt of one of these works, "I Remember Her By Nate Carr w/Galley Notes", here. This excerpt debuted via the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in early 2021; you can view the entire event here. PC is also working with his RIGHTSTARTER partners DEM ONE and Christopher "Paper Son" Woon-Chen on the upcoming project BLACK/PACIFIC, made possible by Mosaic America. BLACK/PACIFIC will premiere in Spring /Summer 2021.

As a recording artist, producer, and drummer, PC Muñoz's singular music-making aesthetic bridges the gap between jazz-informed improvisation and the insistent rhythms of funk and hip-hop. His partnership with composer/cellist/longtime Kronos Quartet member Joan Jeanrenaud has yielded three highly acclaimed projects: the GRAMMY®-nominated Strange Toys, the iTunes-charting Pop-Pop, and the art-inspired Visual Music. PC has recorded and/or performed with rock legend Jackson Browne, dream-pop poet/chanteuse Ingrid Chavez, Prince and the Revolution synth wizard Dr. Fink, sonic surrealists Broun Fellinis, clarinet master Ben Goldberg, woodwinds renegade Kyle Bruckmann, Oakland emcee/pianist phenom Kev Choice, vocalist Jennifer Kreisberg of the legendary Native American group Ulali, Emmy-winning virtuoso Van-Anh Vanessa Vo , performance artist Cellista, experimental composer/guitarist Zachary James Watkins, the Americana/country project Owl Country (featuring David Grisman and Charlie Musselwhite), and countless other musicians and recording artists across a wide range of genres. In 2018 PC launched a new creative and educational initiative, RIGHTSTARTER, with the award-winning San José rapper DEM ONE. He is 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.

A published writer since his college years, PC published two chapbooks in the 90s, The Daily Balance (Artlab, 1992), and Half-Truths (Artlab, 1995); Inside Pocket of a Houndstooth Blazer (2018) was the companion chapbook to his acclaimed 2018 album Physical Science. Notable multidisciplinary collaborations include ongoing iterations of the multiracial identity performance piece

HALF-BREED, the

award-winning

Ir-Rational, 2012's Fall of a Sudden project in Hong Kong, 2008's public art installation Light Haiku with kinetic sculptor

Chris Eckert, 2005's poetry/art/music project Twenty Haiku, ongoing performances with Vadim Puyandaev and Erika Tsimbrovsky of

Avy-K Productions, and ongoing collaborations with choreographer

Robert Moses. His writings have been published in DRUM! Magazine, Electronic Musician, Grammypro.com, Seagate Creative, and more. He is one of the featured writers in the award-winning new collection from University of Hawai'i Press, Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia (2019).

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 1998 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 2002's CMJ-charting A Good Deed in a Weary World, 2004's Golden State mash-note California, and 2005's Twenty 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 2008 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.

Muñoz is 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.

For licensing, promo photos, and press interviews contact Alicia Ruiz:

contact@rightstarterproject.com