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"I’m the flighty one, remember?  Why do you think I have wings?" - Princess Lolly, "Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure."

MICHAEL V. FARLEY AKA the Beige Channel  
107 Berwick Road
Delmar, NY  12054   USA
(518) 439-0823
the_beige_channel@hotmail.com
www.thebeigechannel.com

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree / Music Composition / Daemen College (Amherst, NY)
Master’s degree / Comparative Literature / University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Master’s degree / Music Theory and Composition / UW (Madison)
Master’s degree / Library and Information Science / State University of New York (Albany)

RELEASES

    COMPILATIONS
Acorn Fall, "Unsafe Sonic Art," Chaotic System, 2007.
Sam's Club, "Bend It Like Beckett," Sound Works, 2006.
Train from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, “Phonography.org 6,” 2005.
Starring Pandora Sparks, “USA/USB,” Shadow Puppet, 2004.
Pink Pillbox, “Screed,” 4th edition, Magazine/CD, Miss Mary’s Art Space, 2003.
Coffee With Cat, Phonography.org 4, 2003.
Tinsel, “TENSILE,” Labile Music, 2003.
A Glamour Don’t, “Grain,” DOTDOTDOT Music, 2003.
Untitled, “60 Degrees Somewhere/60 Degrees Somewhere Else” - Throat, 2002.
Arizona Underground,  “Phonography.org: Compositions using field recordings #2”, 2002.
Implosion, “lowercasesound 2,” Bremsstrahlung Recordings, 2002.
The Profile of Mary Jane Russell, “No Compression Festival No. 1,”Little Fury Things.
Dining on Shortwaves,  “CCA: 4X4,” CCA, 2001.
This Train Is Out of Service, “Phonography.org 2,” 2001.

    ONLINE
4 compositions using field recordings & children’s toys - mp3s for Addenda (Seasonalbk.net) 2004.
Recipes from the Scary Kitchen - mp3 album, Slapart.com, 2003.
Nice Belt, Centibel, 2003.
Bent Lice, Centibel, 2003.
MJR7, 7econds, microsound.org, 2003.
Futureville, microsound.org, 2003.
HVNHL2GO, techNOH.com, 2001.
Cling; Clang; Clung , tiln.net, 2001.
Malversation, techNOH.com, 2001.    

    FULL LENGTH CDs
Enjoy Victoria Bay: Ossicles phonography series #1: unedited field recordings, Happy New Year, 2007.
WHY NOT TAKE A DAYDREAM AND WEAR IT, Happy New Year Recordings, 2007.
AMUSANT!, Happy New Year Recordings, 2007.
Autumn Rain in the Yard, Happy New Year Recordings, 2006.
Plain Vanilla, Happy New Year Recordings, 2004.
‘bugstyle,’ MP3.Com, 2000.
TWISTMIXER, Quadratl, 1998.

PERFORMANCES
   
    2007
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, live soundtrack w/ Jim Sande, Albany Public Library, NY.
Solar One/Make Music New York - Stuyvesant Cove Park, NY.
Wave Farm - Acra, NY.     
Moso - Beacon, NY.

    2006
Perfect Blend Cafe - Delmar, NY.
Issue Project Room - Brooklyn, NY, New York Phonographers.
Re:Soundings series - Valley Falls, NY.
    
    2005
BPM - Brooklyn, NY, New York Phonographers.
Home Listening, Live Webcast - Brooklyn, NY, with Ian Epps.
      
    2004
Home Listening, Live Webcast - Brooklyn, NY, with Sawako, Ben Owen and Mike Rosenthal.
Firlefanz Gallery - Albany NY, Shock and Awe performance series.
Gasholder Building - Troy NY, New York Phonographers.

    2003
Saratoga Springs Public Library - Saratoga Springs, NY.
Diapason - NY Phonographer’s Union,  New York City.
“Share” at the Openair Bar, New York City -  with Omnid.
Placard Festival - The Tank, New York City - with Ben Owen and Tom Mulligan.

    2002
The Larkin - Albany, NY - with Eric Benoit
Engine 27 -  New York City - New York Phonographers - with Chris DeLaurenti, John Hudak, and Ben Owen.

    2001
No Compression Festival -  Syracuse, NY.
GRIST - The Old Bookmill - Montague, MA - with Greg Davis.

GROUP EXHIBIT/DIFFUSION AND SIDE PROJECTS

    2007
"ART IS NOT MUTE" - travelling exhibit of sound art, Ersta Konsthall - Stockholm, Sweden/ Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaújváros, Hungary/Botkyrka Konsthall - Sweden.
Contributor to "R(H)umeur collective - part 1,"  broadcast on Radio Grenouille, Marseille, France.
   
    2006
"Acorn Fall," accepted for diffusion during the Unsafe: Festival of Improvised and Experimental Music, Dorset, UK.
"Gravity Problem No. 3" was selected by Time Labs (Vienna, Austria) for a radio show simultaneously broadcast across 9 European countries.
Contributor - "Giant Ear))" radio shows ("Wind powered works," and "Ghosts in the machine") hosted by the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology on free103point9 online radio.
"Envelope of Levels," accepted for diffusion during the World New Music Festival, Stuttgart, Germany.

    2004
Sound Designer - “Mouse,” a play by Katherine Ambrosio, Hilton New Music Center, Albany, NY.

    2003
Co-curator - TENSILE, CD - international experimental acoustic guitar anthology, distributed by Verge Music.

    2002
Sound Designer - “The B-12 Connection,” a play by Katherine Ambrosio -  Sande Shurin Theater,  New York City.

    1990’s
Composed music for theater productions at the State University of New York at Albany,
including Oedipus Rex, Desire Under the Elms, and Approaching Zanzibar.
Guitarist-Composer with The Jim Sande Ensemble (CDs: “Melting” -1998, and “Cyclorama” -2002).

 AWARDS

4X4 - Glasgow (Scotland) Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2001.

PROFILE

Some Assembly Required, blog, July 8, 2007.

SELECTED AIR PLAY / INTERNET RADIO

Matiere Brute - Radio 666, 99.1 FM, Caen, France.
"Framework" - Resonance 104.4 FM, London, England.
"BiP HOp Generation" - Radio Grenouille 88.8 FM, Marseille, France.
"Audio Exotica" - WEVL 89.9 FM, Nashville, Tennessee.
"Sonar Map" - KSER 90.7 FM, Seattle, Washington.
“Some Assembly Required” Radio K, KUOM 770 AM, Minneapolis, MN.
“Possible Musics” - 3ccc-FM, Victoria, Australia.
"Sleepless Nights" - KGNU, 88.5 FM, Boulder, CO.
"It's Too Damn Early" - WDBX 9.1fm, Carbondale, IL.

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“Xstream Radio” (France) - Top Ten List #19.
"Friendly Persuasion" (USA)- Antenna Radio.
“Eldorado” (Sweden) - Sveriges Radio.
Giant Ear))) - free103point9