Cellar-M was an experimental collective that came out of California Institute of the Arts, where, in 1972, as a multimedia artist, Will Jackson won a scholarship to, but allegedly lost it when he offended his mentor Allan Kaprow.
Cellar-M split in 1976 into 2 duets: 'TO' and Rhythm & Noise In 1973, Will Jackson moved on to Serge Tcherepnin's CalArts synthesizer workshop, under whos supervision he buidt his own modular synthetizer.
With the assistance of Fund for Animals (Cleveland Amory, Virginia Handley), eco-filmmaker Stan Minasian, and commercial pilot Al Johnson.
TO’s commitment to developing the world’s knowledge and preservation of cetaceans would lead them to hold awareness concerts from California to Japan, performing at the Harumi Dome in Tokyo for the “Save the Seas” event against commercial whaling.
[7] After TO ceased its activities, he joined Ether Ship, a pionneer sonic xenolinguisitcs performance art group created in 1972 in Los Angeles by Willard van de Bogart and Lemon DeGeorge, whom he had met at Calarts.