Education
Villanova University.
Villanova University.
Diplomed from Villanova University (Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania), he moved to New York City in 1976 and was part of the Number Wave scene. As an audio engineer and record producer, he has worked on projects such as Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, Helmet, Dinosaur Junior, White Zombie, Quicksand, An Albatross, The Dentists, Unrest, and Gumball. To date he has produced and recorded over 200 LPs and CDs, including Helmet’s Meantime, for which he received a gold record in 1993.
He is also known as a percussionist and drummer for Theoretical Girls, Laurie Anderson, and his own Wharton Tiers Ensemble.
Tiers started two groups which played his own compositions: A Band, which disbanded in 1980, and Glorious 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 Civil Defense of instrumentals for massed guitars by the Wharton Tiers Ensemble, Brighter Than Life, came out in April of 1996, and the follow-up, Twilight Of The Computer Age, was released at the end of A new Ensemble LP, Freedom Now!, was released in March 2013 on Fun City New York City, a new record label founded by Tiers to release his music This was followed by "A Transendance" in June Millie, 7", Theoretical Records, A Band – Lowly Worm, 7", Nancy Records, Glorious Strangers – Why Don"t You Join The Army / Media Media, 7", Theoretical Records, Glorious Strangers – Untitled, Lp, Fun City Records, Wharton Tiers Ensemble, The – Twilight Of The Computer Age, Civil Defense, Atavistic records, Theoretical Girls – Theoretical Record, Civil Defense, Acute Records.