(Hallam | Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, synthesizers, sampler, drums and drum programming, and 'found sounds'
Adrian Hallam [ https://soundcloud.com/adrianhallam ]: guitars and bass synthesizer
Composed and Recorded ca. July to August 2, 2013.
sm9b [CB HH + Bass mix] [24WAV].

Ambient samples from Hawkdream and Manny Leigh’s “The Sun without a Sphere”:
https://soundcloud.com/brian-brown-16/the-sun-without-a-sphere-1

Percussion sample from OBH Beats’ “Scene without Colors”:
https://soundcloud.com/obh-beats/scene-without-colors


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

You can hear more of Adrian Hallam's (Blue Room Green's) music here:
https://soundcloud.com/blue-room-green

Venusian Smile

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"Venusian Smile" [Michael Ash Sharbaugh and Adrian Hallam]

titan of the old Ulysses Story, a cruel and tragic figure

polyphem

Music for bananas - Pure hearted woman

U-Sociopath

Scattered thoughts coalescing into disillusionment. 

A new idea i am playing around with.  I will be working on this and updating it and will put a note here when i do.

Please feel free to leave a comment

Contemplation

So what now?

The pieces are set,
The board is occupied,
The main actors have taken their positions.

The inevitable is coming,
Fear fills hearts and minds.

Will what many predict come to pass,
Or will fate turn in our favor?

The core of our beings has been seized by the machine.
The art that defined us is being smothered by a flood of perfect artificiality.

Simulation of emotions, simulation of art, simulation of humanity.
Where do we belong?

Where is my place?

And what now?

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This is a piece I improvised on March 23, 2025. I was surprised at how well it turned out. However, I didn't know what to do with it. I couldn't think of anything more, so I'm publishing it as is, with minor tweaks (I literally added six notes in three places).

With this piece I am starting a series in which I will be posting rather uncomplicated, short pieces, created out of the need of the moment, under the impression of something specific.

To compose it I used only 3 plugins/sounds
Spitfire LABS Autograph Grand (piano) (free)
Spitfire Originals Intimate Strings x2 (in octave)
And one patch from truly amazing synth from Arturia: Pigments

I hope you like it at least a little bit.

Picture Freepik: https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/woman-portrait-with-blue-lights-visual-effects_26813733.htm

And What Now?

un trio un peu étrange : piano/cello/trompette bouchée, pour une ballade entre chat et loup; bref encore une rêverie, inspirée par un chat qui aime les livres

ce chat qui médite

08/09/2025

Above

Can you tell me what art is? I used to avoid that question, considering it to be a distraction from actual art making. Well, that was half a decade ago. Now, I think I got an answer (at least one for these bizarre times).
Art is what we do, and I don't mean the finished painting, the printed book, the .wav file of this track (that's the art product, but you can disagree). Art is the work of making it, the moments of expression, the struggle, the process, the self-doubt, the joy of learning, of discovery, of creating, even if nothing concrete comes from it.
In that sense, anything we do can be art, and I honestly think it may be. To make art is to live, and the artist at work is simply one living true to themself. 
And we can all be artists.
Just live and let live.

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Music composed by Thomas O'Higgins Horna
Produced at Kolima Forest Studios.
Cover photo by chirimoyachris, edited by me.

This track is not to be used to train AI.

The Artist at Work

Indie Summer Nights

"Sea Fever" is a song for piano and voice written bei John Ireland in 1913, with lyrics by John Masefield.

Piano by Helen Roberts

We hope you'll enjoy, and spend some time by the sea, if you can :)


artwork by Joaquín Sorolla

Sea Fever (John Ireland - a reprise with Helen Roberts)

POP | 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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