Since 2000, the Beige Channel has been Michael V. Farley's project for appropriating, recycling, and manipulating pre-existing sound, field recordings, and outmoded genres of recorded music as raw material for new compositions.

In 2001, he won the 4x4 prize from the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts with the composition, 'Dining on Shortwaves."

Michael has performed in a number of venues in upstate New York and New York City, often with the New York Phonographers, and has contributed to a variety of online sites for electronic music. His work has been included in broadcasts and exhibits of sound art in the UK and Europe.

His CD, Plain Vanilla, (2004)) was described as "fascinating... hypnotic... and absorbing experiment, " by Wire magazine. Autumn Rain in the Yard (2006) was called "an excellent work of micro-sounding crackles, static hiss and all sorts of granular synthesis... a highly fine work," by Vital, and "strange, haunting...intriguing stuff", by Paris Transatlantic.