New York musician and artist JASUN MARTZ     has composed several symphonies,     recorded with

MICHAEL JACKSON (Bad and Dangerous), toured with FRANK     ZAPPA, collaborated with JEAN DUBUFFET

(and co-arranged STARSHIPS #1 hit,      We Built This City- yikes!)

 

From Wikipedia  

 

Jasun Martz is an American record producer, composer,   musician, creative director, fine artist and sculptor who has worked on several   #1 best selling hit records but is probably best known for his contemporary   classical symphonies. He has recorded with Michael Jackson

(Bad and Dangerous), toured with Frank   Zappa and helped arrange one of rock music's best-selling hits, We Built this   City by Starship.

 

Also a renowned New York based painter and sculptor,   Martz has lived in New York, Los Angeles and London and has created and   exhibited raw expressionist paintings and papier-mache sculpture inspired by   the subway passengers he encounters in each city. He collaborated with French   modern master Jean Dubuffet (the founder of art brut) on Martz's critically   acclaimed avant-garde contemporary classical symphony entitled The Pillory.

 

Martz began his music career at an early age, signing his    first professional recording and publishing contract at the age of 15. An    internationally known musician, composer and producer, he has recorded and   toured with numerous celebrated entertainers. Millions have heard his    recordings since he recorded on Michael Jackson's Dangerous and Bad albums. He    played keyboards and synthesizers on the quadruple platinum #1 hit Black or   White from Jackson's Dangerous album. It was later included on HIStory, Number    Ones and three video/DVDs. He is the featured harmonica soloist on     Jackson's Streetwalker, a Bad outtake which later appeared as a bonus track on the 2001   Special Edition reissue, and as the B-side to Cry. He has recorded and toured     with Frank Zappa and the Japanese progressive rock group The Far East Family    Band, and helped arrange Starship's #1 hit We Built This City with Grammy   award-winning producer Bill Bottrell. Bottrell has said Martz "brought   an immediacy and a rock & roll fire" to the Michael Jackson recordings    (Sound on Sound, August 2004).

 

In an interview in the New York Times in 2005, Martz said   his music is sometimes very wild and not for the faint of heart. He composed   and produced a contemporary classical symphony (his second) for the 115-member    The Intercontinental Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Choir. The Pillory/The Battle is a 2 CD set released in 2005 and 2007 and features 2 1/2 hours of Mr.   Martz's music. Searching for musical inspiration, Martz climbed to the refugio on Ecuador's Mount Cotopaxi, the world's tallest active volcano. When he  descended the very steep slope, he tripped and began a tumble. Martz has said    he then had an epiphany for the symphony. The music explores the Charles Darwin    theory of evolution on the earth 200 million years into the future. It was   reported in the New York Times that Mr. Martz said "after the tumble, a    wild idea came to me of what the symphony should be."

 

Mr. Martz conducted a 40-piece orchestra, the Neoteric   Orchestra, in his critically acclaimed first avant-garde symphony The Pillory.    The CD features members of Frank Zappa's band Ruth Underwood, Eddie Jobson, has    received hundreds of international reviews and has often been called a    contemporary masterpiece. Billboard Magazine reviewed The Pillory as a Top    Album Pick and it was featured in Canadian director Francois Miron's film  Resolving Power (2001, FilmGrafix Studios, Montreal).

 

Mr. Martz has also composed for film and television.

 

Martz is also a well known New York based Creative    Director in the beauty and fashion industries. He has created advertising   campaigns for major brands such as Max Factor, Guess, Revlon, Proctor & Gamble, Redken, Neutrogena, Rembrandt and many others.

 

Also an inventor, Martz is the creator and owner of many    trademarks, copyrights and patents. He was most recently awarded a United   States patent (United States Patent #6270275) for his invention of a sponge   storage and disinfecting device.

 

Jasun Martz studied at the University of California, Los    Angeles; New York University; California State University, Northridge; Art   Center College of Design and graduated with honors from the University of   California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelors degree in the arts.

 

He currently lives in New York.