User:Lynn Huyett/sandbox/Marc Wagnon

About Percussionist and composer Marc Wagnon was born in Switzerland, where he studied classical percussion at the Geneva Conservatory. He has lived in the United States since the 1980s, where he studied composition and mallet technique on the vibraphone at the Berklee School in Boston, then moved to New York City to further his jazz performance and percussion skills. Marc can be heard on over 20 recordings, including 4 solo albums.

Wagnon's interest in electronics led him to push the boundaries of live performance with the “electronic vibraphone”, where he is recognized as a pioneer on this instrument.

In the 1990s, Wagnon co-founded the group Tunnels with fretless bassist Percy Jones, releasing five CDs from 1994 to 2006.

In the mid nineties Wagnon joined a reunion of the legendary English band Brand X and recorded the CD ‘Manifest Destiny’ with the group, which was released in 1997.

Wagnon is the author of an iBook, titled “Drum Talk - An Introduction to Percussion Ensemble”, which demonstrates the techniques he developed working with sighted and visually impaired students. He has also become very involved in making computers accessible to visually impaired musicians. Wagnon began his side career as a videographer in 2005 when he joined Galileo's Daughters to create a multimedia show about Galileo, science and music in the 17th-century with narration by Dava Sobel. He also created a live video mix and animation for Galileo's Daughters' program about Nicolaus Copernicus.

Wagnon is also a volunteer for NASA and JPL as a "Solar System Ambassador".

Discography Solo Projects: - Interesting Times (Buckyball Records) 2019 - Earth is a Cruel Master (Buckyball Records) 2010 - An Afterthought (Buckyball Rec.) 1999 - Shadowlines CD (Buckyball Rec.) 1999 re-release with three unreleased tracks - Shadowlines LP (Sun Jump) 1988 With Tunnels: - Natural Selection Buckyball Records 2006 - The Art of Living Dangerously Live Buckyball Records 2004 - Progressivity Buckyball Records 2002 - Painted Rock Buckyball Records 1999 - Tunnels with Percy Jones Ozone 1993 / Buckyball Records 1999 With Brand X: - Manifest Destiny CD (Pony Canyon) 1997 With Mike_Clark & Paul Jackson:  - Clark-Jackson-Wagnon - Conjunction (Buckyball Rec.) 2001 with Sarah Pillow: - Remixes (Buckyball Records) 2003 - Nuove Musiche (Buckyball Rec.) 2000 - Paper Cuts CD (Buckyball Rec.) 1997 With Doctor Nerve: - Out to Bomb Fresh Kings,LP (Cuneiform) 1984 - Armed Observation LP (Cuneiform) 1987 - Did Sprinting Die CD (Cuneiform) 1988 - Beta 14 Ok CD (Cuneiform) 1990 - Skin CD (Cuneiform) 1995 With No No Diet Bang: - Profan CD (Bambrus Rec.) 1997 Recording credits as audio engineer: - Yo Kano - Yo! - Mike Clark - Actual Proof - Los Ciego del Barrio - ¿Por Que? ¡Porque…! - Sarah Pillow - Nuove Musiche, Remixes - Tunnels - Painted Rock, Progressivity, Natural Selection - Marc Wagnon -Conjunction, Earth is a Cruel Master, Interesting Times