Wharton Tiers (born 1953, inPhiladelphia) is an Americanaudio engineer,record producer,drummer andpercussionist.
After receiving a diploma fromVillanova University (Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania), he moved toNew York City in 1976 and was part of theNo Wave scene.
As an audio engineer, record producer and mixer, he has worked on projects with artists such asSonic Youth,Glenn Branca,Biohazard,Das Damen,Hole,Prong,Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,Born Against,Teenage Fanclub,Unsane,Dinosaur Jr,White Zombie,Quicksand,An Albatross,Nausea,Yo La Tengo,Christian Marclay,Swans,Mark Eitzel,Shudder To Think,The Dentists,Unrest,Borbetomagus,Gumball, among many others. To date he has produced and recorded over 200 records, includingHelmet'sMeantime, for which he received a gold record in 1993.
He is also known as a percussionist and drummer forTheoretical Girls,Laurie Anderson,Rhys Chatham’s ensemble,Glenn Branca's ensemble, and his ownWharton Tiers Ensemble.[1]
Tiers started two groups which played his own compositions: A Band, which disbanded in 1980, andGlorious Strangers, which released a self-titled LP in 1984. Since then he has continued to compose and write many different styles of music, including solo piano, synth based instrumentals, opera, and symphonic works.
A CD of instrumentals for massed guitars by theWharton Tiers Ensemble,Brighter Than Life, came out in April 1996, and the follow-up,Twilight Of The Computer Age, was released at the end of 1999. A new Ensemble LP,Freedom Now!, was released in March 2013 on Fun City NYC, a new record label founded by Tiers to release his music. This was followed byA Transendance in June 2014.
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