Sebastian Matthias Hart was born in the San Francisco East Bay Area in 1987. His passion as a youth was soccer, in his adolescences it was Magic the Gathering, and by high school it was percussion. By the time he graduated from James Logan High School in 2005, and Cal State East Bay in 2009 with a BA in History, his life was entirely engrossed with the consumption and production of art and philosophy. As well as continually striving to learn all he could about the world around him; from geology to political science. Currently he is continuing his education at Ohlone College to obtain his Protools Audio Production Certification, as well as an AA in music composition; while continuing to pick up new instruments and play with percussion, and jazz/rock ensembles.

His musical career started in 1997 joining middle school band to avoid cooking class, and deciding on percussion figuring a twenty-dollar pad and sticks wouldn’t break the bank upon the course’s end. Finding music exhilarating he’s been practicing diligently ever since. In 1999 Sebastian started private studies at Nasatir School of Percussion, which he continued through 2006. His freshman year at James Logan High School he played in the Jazz, Marching, Percussion, & Concert ensembles. He quit public music education sophomore year to start musical endeavors in garage bands finding them more liberating and enjoyable. In 2005 he started at CSU East Bay and took numerous music courses there, picking up new instruments (including keys, guitar, & bass) while playing with the Percussion Ensemble, and absorbing everything they could offer involving audio before graduating. Finding more enjoyment each time he entered a studio, starting with one of his garage bands (GUTS) who recorded in 2002, his passion continued to self-combust with each course he aced. Eventually becoming entirely obsessed with the art of audio production. He started building his studio in 2005 (aka Rouse Manor / Fertile Folklore’s Lab) and it has been popping at the seams ever since.

In early 2001 he joined local 510 pop-punk band named Off Days, which played numerous local shows and house parties but never recorded. In 2002 GUTS (Give Us Till Summer was formed from Off Days) played shows all across the East Bay, and recorded a demo upon creation of their site and press pack. This band broke up in early 2003; he then played in a short lived pop punk band named NFN whose success barely rivaled Off Days. Upon NFN’s break up the fill in bassist for the last half dozens shows persuaded hART to form an EBHC group with him. Known as Kilencora they grew to include a second guitarist, and his old friend Brian Barber on bass (who later formed Rouse Concert with hart). Kilencora played shows across the Bay Area, released & produced their own demo, merch, website, etc. They eventually disbanded in late 2005 for numerous life reasons. In early 2006 hART joined SF Bay Area’s PAR (Pretentious Art Rock), which became a revolving door continuously filled with a plethora of phenomenal musicians. PAR was Hart’s first group which approached music with goals of a business behind the scenes. Upon the founders continual mental breakdowns the band reformed into a jam band called TBA with John Alzondo at its head along with others from PAR, and Brian on bass. This group then recorded a CD after Brian and Sebastian left the group due to life differences in 2006. TBA is currently reformed and is working on an album of John’s material with Brian and hART. After the original TBA hART played with numerous groups in 2007, while working on his BA, including bar band Jackscrew and metal band Slaghammer. Both were short lived, finding the genres and people weren’t musically on the same page as hART’s illusions of grandeur. In 2008 frustrated he formed Rouse Concert with Brian, whose past year experience strangely matched his. Brian’s encouragement of harts ambitions quickly grew to form Fertile Folklore; and the rest is current events you should get involved in!

My resume can be found here.

Biographies for my band and production company
can be found at the following links:
to Rouse Concert's about - to Fertile Folklore's about

Some Favorites off the top of my head:
Music: link to>>Influences Gallery
the Doors, Ton Stiene and Sherben, the Beatles, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin & Grace Slick, Pink Floyd, Cream, Howlin’ Wolf, the Rolling Stones, Sigur Ros, Leonard Cohen, Louis Prima, the Velvet Underground, Dr. Dre, Gustav Holst, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and of course a plethora of other artists.
Literature:
Epic of Gilgamesh a Sumerian legend, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell, Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, the Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
Film:
Woodstock Documentary (1970), Harold and Maude (1971), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Brazil (1985), Evil Dead II (1987), Army of Darkness (1992), Trainspotting (1996), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Party Monster (2003), What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004), "Superjail!" (series 2007)
Answers to Received Questions:
-ROCOCO's birthday is 07/07/07.
-I started my dreadlocks in January 2004;
and cut them 03/19/10.

Anything else you would like to know, or feel would be an additive to this biography, please contact me.
-hART