Respectable Citizen is an electronic improvisational ensemble that simply eludes any classification beyond eclectic. The group features Bruce Bennett on keyboards; Byron H. Diel on electronic percussions; Vance Galloway on electronic guitar; Michael Zbyszynski on flutes, saxes, and electronics; and Marcos on bass. Additional collaborators have included Paul Hoskin on contrabass clarinet, Greg Powers on trombone, Ian Dobson on percussions, and Peter Bill with live painting and live video among others. Together, they bring into play a dynamic and varied web of sound texture, rhythm, and melody sure to delight the dilettante and the connoisseur alike.

Composer, sound artist
• freelance composer 22-
• lecturer at University of the Arts, Helsinki 22-
• PhD UC Berkeley and CNMAT 2016–22
• M.Mus Sibelius Academy 2011
• IRCAM Cursus 2012–13
• Acanthes 2011

As a composer I'm interested in ambiguity of timbre, when the sound source or origins of the sound can't be identified. In my acoustical and electronical works I'm striving for unique moments where the parameters of this world are slightly altered to allow a glimpse of another reality to be present. It can be a moment where the timbre of purely acoustical writing gives surprising results or when electronics project sounds into another domain, another space and reality.

All music made or contributed to by George Cochrane at Echo Lake Audio in Los Angeles.  

George makes music as Give In, and as part of Wild & Free, Weatherhouse, and Cubik and Origami.

Jason Martineau is an award-winning composer, pianist, arranger, and instructor, and has been active in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1995. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan School of Music, and has composed numerous works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo piano, and chorus, as well as a full-length musical, multiple film scores, and over 200 songs, both instrumental and vocal. Dr. Martineau has recorded over twelve albums in various genres, and has also been featured on numerous other artists' recordings, as pianist, music director, and producer. He provides scores, arrangements, original compositions, soundtracks, sound design, accompaniment, private instruction, and musical direction for a diverse and eclectic client base.

Dr. Martineau works in multiple capacities with many different idioms and styles, from world fusion and jazz, to industrial, rock, pop, and classical. In 2007 he orchestrated string arrangements by Vanessa Carlton for her album "Heroes and Thieves." He has also authored a book on music theory released October 2008 entitled "The Elements of Music," published by Wooden Books and Bloomsbury, distributed both nationally and internationally. That book has since been translated into 10 languages, and has been included in a larger, multi-author 6-book volume entitled "Quadrivium".

His film scores have been featured in documentaries broadcast on PBS stations around the US since 1998. He also provides music cues and backgrounds for a large variety of multimedia projects. He has been playing the piano since the age of 5, and has been performing since 1989 at numerous venues in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and more recently, the 10th International Festival of Dance and Music in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2011 he joined the faculty at the Academy of Art University, teaching music notation, theory, composition, orchestration, and counterpoint.  He also has been a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley, the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Prince's Foundation School of the Traditional Arts, the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, and was adjunct faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for the 2014-15 academic year. His second book for Wooden Books, entitled "Love: The Song of the Universe" was released worldwide in 2015.

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