@garbhanmyles: We thank you so much, Garbhán! I have a soft spot in my heart for this piece. It opened up and bled as I produced it. Best to you. Michael

Nominated by SC Music Awards for Top 10 Collaboration of May 2013 :: https://soundcloud.com/soundcloud-music-awards/sets/top-10-collaborations-part-2

Michael, Adrian, this is absolutely fantastic. Eerie, hauntingly beautiful lament. I love it. It has that Cocteau Twins otherworldliness yet sounds very individual. Into my 'Favourites From The Cloud' set. And I'll be back in both of yours after this marvellous piece. Apart from that, it's shite.

Love it.  Someone needs to put this into a movie.

Incredible.Haunting,emotional...mystical...beautiful guitar/sounds...production...I feel the loss the emptiness...outstanding.Peace,lightxo

A pleasure to collaborate with these amazing folks and be part of this brilliant online music community.
Thank you all:):):)  x

Collaborations/Remixes (Via Sound Cloud)

(Hallam | Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh: vocals, synthesizers, sampler, and drum programming
Adrian Hallam: guitars and bass synthesizer
Composed and Recorded ca. July to August 2, 2013.
sm9b

Ambient samples from Hawkdream and Manny Leigh’s “The Sun without a Sphere”:
Brian-brown-16 – The-sun-without-a-sphere-1

Percussion sample from OBH Beats’ “Scene without Colors”:
Obh-beats – Scene-without-colors

Warm and special thanks to Hawkdream, Manny Leigh, and OBH Beats for allowing us to sample their works!

Check out more of Michaels Amazing Sounds:   https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh


Venusian Smile (Collaboration W/- Michael Ash Sharbaugh)

Mi última incorporación. Usando sintetizadores varios y samples de voces.


This Is My Time (manu305)

"This is an alternate, non-stop, high-quality (24-bit), streaming version -- exclusive to Soundcloud -- of My EP, 'Post-Partum Appendices.'"

~ Michael

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1 ] - "Vast Ionic Charges in an Angel's Eye" (PPA 2025 MASTER)

2 ] - "My Pulse's Pride" (PPA 2025 MASTER)

3 ] - "Amidst Winter Branches" (PPA 2025 MASTER)

4 ] - "The Paradise Beside Me" (PPA 2025 MASTER)

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(Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ @michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, guitars, drums and drum machine programming, synthesizer and sequencer programming, sampler and sample-editing, and 'found sounds'
Composed and Recorded ca. November 17 to December 22, 2024.
Interstitial 'musical' interludes recorded ca. January 3 to 8, 2025.
Mastered January 14, 2025.
[int RAWs] sm25 [eM04lClEQ] [24WAV].

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Post-Partum Appendices

Post-Partum Appendices (non-stop)

>>> DOWNLOAD <<<

EP: "Post-Partum Appendices" (2025) | [non-stop] - Michael Ash Sharbaugh

Back after a lengthy absence from the Disquiet Junto.

The prompt aligned perfectly with my ongoing research into bell-like tones through ring modulation and frequency shifting, inspired by Oren Ambarchi's work, in particular "Grapes From The Estate" (Touch). 
Electric guitar, mostly harmonics, through ring mod plus some atrocious, violent guitar bits and bobs from my archive. 

Hope you enjoy!

More on the 682nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Unring a Bell — The Assignment: What if you could? — at https://disquiet.com/0682/

Unring [disquiet0682]

Hey all - thanks for popping in to listen to my looping improv, 100% live and performed in real time, exactly the way you hear it here. 
Simple setup -> Tele, 20% More, looper, reverb. That's basically it. Zero edits, so what you hear is how it happened, an outtake from an extended, joyful session. 

Enjoy!

Ixert Evac

Cultured (Collaboration with Margaret Corbett)

Music from the video game "The Secrets We Grow." 

WISHLIST, WISHLIST, WISHLIST!!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3962610/The_Secrets_We_Grow/

Sewer Waltz

Given the Disquiet theme of aliens, I opted to use the (B)Arp 2500, due to its appearance in Close Encounters. I set up a slowly evolving patch, augmented by various effects and then added some distorted noise courtesy of the Landscape Stereofield. Further effects were applied  within logic Logic. My first instinct was to make a dreamy, spacey track, but I opted for something more dissonant and disconcerting. 

disquiet0718

(McMann [McMahon] & Mainieri; arr. Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ @michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synths and sequencer programming, samples and sample editing, and 'found sounds'
Bones1327 of FUTURE SMITH [ ]: guitars
Composed and Recorded ca. 1987 to June 16, 2025.
sm57B [FV-VOX] [eM 1] [24WAV].

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Together, Michael Ash Sharbaugh and Bones1327 make up the duo, ÆR. You can discover them here ... on SoundCloud: @aer-official

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"Cry Little Sister" (full edit)

(McMann [McMahon] & Mainieri; arr. Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synths and sequencer programming, samples and sample editing, and 'found sounds'
Bones1327 of FUTURE SMITH [ ]: guitars
Composed and Recorded ca. 1987 to June 16, 2025.
sm57B [RE-VOX] [eM 1] [24WAV].

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Together, Michael Ash Sharbaugh and Bones1327 make up the duo, ÆR. You can discover them here ... on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aer-official

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"Cry Little Sister" (radio edit)

Music written, performed and produced by  @wouwouandthewormling
Vocals written and performed by @christoffersen-weber and Blue-room-green.
This is the first mix of the collaboration with these fine gentleman. Check out the wormling's excellent mix here: @wouwouandthewormling

More info: bit.ly/1RIDZDx


The Road (Collaboration with Wou-Wou & the Wormling & Christofferson Weber) BRG Mix

Thank you OCA & Christofferson Weber for making this one shine:):)
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/48AeEOODb8bg4eESLEUCRQ
You tube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cX20J8PEGY&index=7&list=PLE0FFA80D98F0D37B
Vocals: C.Weber & OCA
Music & Bg vocal: Adrian Hallam 
:):):)
Check out some amazing music here:
https://soundcloud.com/o-c-a
https://soundcloud.com/christoffersen-weber

Sun Comes Up (feat. CW & OCA)(Video link in description)

thanks for listening, enjOy ;)
*sample from The Mighty Boosh
the video: https://youtu.be/ybfjomWSm5s

Mess Me Up

Mess Me Up (video in description)

Thanks to Jon for adding a lovely bass line to this:) Much appreciated
https://soundcloud.com/jon-lock-5

Galaxy 22 (Featuring Jon Lock on Bass)

It was a real pleasure collaborating with Jon on this..... Upon first listening to the track he sent me, i was really drawn in by the beautiful sound of the descending guitar chords and flowing bass line. 
Jon creates fantastic songs, has a great ear, and plays a whole bunch of different instruments really really well.. Have a listen here: https://soundcloud.com/jon-lock-5

Establishment Blues (Jon Lock Collaboration)

(Hallam | Sharbaugh)
Adrian Hallam: guitar, Oberheim synth, and found sounds
Michael Ash Sharbaugh: vocals, synthesizers, found sounds, and sound manipulations
Composed and Recorded ca. May 4 to May 5, 2013.
sm10 [LANDR Master].

Listen to more of Blue Room Green [Adrian Hallam]: https://soundcloud.com/blue-room-green

Adrian ... thank you for the opportunity to manipulate your gorgeous stem mixes for "The Separation of Grays."

This piece is a derivative of "The Separation of Grays":

https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh/the-separation-of-grays
https://soundcloud.com/blue-room-green/the-separation-of-grey-brg-mix

For Marc Weidenbaum's [ https://soundcloud.com/disquiet ] thoughts concerning this piece, visit http://disquiet.com/2013/05/05/weary-decadence-mp3/

The Parting

Buy on iTunes! ...

"The Parting" [Michael Ash Sharbaugh and Adrian Hallam (Blue Room Green)]

DARK WAVE | SPACEROCK | VAPORTRAP | TRIP-HOP
AMBIENT | EXPERIMENTAL

the PERSON, the SOUND : Since 1985, Philadelphia-born Michael has composed and released hundreds of audio recordings, and published dozens of [erotic] poems.

His 'sonic-sojourn' began suddenly when he was just a teen -- feet splashing rhythmically through puddles leftover by a seaside rainstorm. Having just parted ways with the then-love-of-his-life, Michael composed his first ballad [and first song] ever -- "Tina." He rushed to his beach-side home to record his visceral 'awakening' on a tiny micro-cassette recorder, and vowed -- from that day on -- to create art for the rest of his life.

He began zealously amassing used music equipment, and had built a modest home recording studio by age seventeen, all the while crafting simple pop, ambient, and experimental works that HE had wanted to listen to -- that HE had wanted to hear, affectionately emulating the works of his then-idols, Duran Duran and Brian Eno.

Now, decades later, he has relocated to a small village outside Atlanta, Georgia, and continues to voraciously attend to his dream as a young, heartbroken boy -- to create and release music that he, himself, wants to hear.

Although no longer sequestered to pop and ambient musics, Michael's signature sound has merged the two, having integrated the R&B, hiphop, and psychedelia he has grown to love as a older gent -- having absorbed the edgy rhythms and dreamy soul of the southern United States (Atlanta and Miami).

Michael still puts forth ample amounts af ambient musics, but his recent 'sound' hovers elsewhere -- somewhere amidst the genres of vaportrap, spacerock, and trip-hop.

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the INFLUENCES : Duran Duran, The Weeknd, Blondie, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol + Steve Stevens, Stone Temple Pilots, Dead Can Dance, Siouxsie & The Banshees, This Mortal Coil, Air, Naked Eyes, Tears for Fears, Alice in Chains, John Barry, Leslie Bricusse, The Chameleons [UK], Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins, ABBA, The Bee Gees, Claude Debussy, Frederick Chopin, Guillaume de Machaut, Early Music, Renaissance music, Baroque music, and Joe Meek.

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#duranduran #theweeknd #blondie #depechemode #billyidol #stevestevens #deadcandance #siouxsieandthebanshees #air #tearsforfears #johnbarry #lesliebricusse #claudedebussy #mauriceravel #frederickchopin #eriksatie #brianeno #thecocteautwins #abba #beegees #joemeek #chameleons #octoberproject #patbenatar #haroldbudd #lindseybuckingham #nakedeyes #aha #ceefarrow #omd #thismortalcoil #stonetemplepilots #aliceinchains #baroque #renaissance #earlymusic #theweeknd #skeler

Composer, Singer/Songwriter of ethereal folk, dreamy ambient and chilled out electronica .

I first started posting my music on Soundcloud in late 2012. 

I've found it to be a very inspiring and supportive community of music creators. 

I have also made friends with great people and collaborated with some really talented artists on here.

Thanks to all who support - It means a lot to me :)

"The Parting" [Michael Ash Sharbaugh and Adrian Hallam (Blue Room Green)]

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