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audiobulbTomo-Nakaguchi - FilamentFilament is taken from "Out of the Blue", Tomo-Nakaguchi’s third album on Audiobulb and marks a significant evolution in his sonic exploration. Meticulously crafting intricate soundscapes from a vast array of audio elements, this album showcases a new level of complexity and beauty. Ranging from serene ambient sounds to aggressive noise, the album takes listeners on an unpredictable sonic journey. With its rapid shifts and layered textures, each track feels like a rollercoaster ride through sound. The intricate layering of sounds creates a sense of floating through a cosmic expanse.
2025-05-0303 min
audiobulbOdNu + Ümlaut - MitochondriaThrough an effortless merging of two minds, their respective worlds of sound and experimentation are even further expanded in this new album. During the listening experience thoughts dissolve into open space. Michel’s interplay of instruments, electronics, tiny melodies and grainy decomposed sounds; along with Jeff’s tape loops, atmospherics, fresh textures and micro rhythms, flow seamlessly into a diaphanous river of sound. Listening is a joy. A true alchemy of sound and vision.
“We were striving to visualize an abstract concept by weaving together our unique sounds. Imagine a bird flying over the water, swooping gently up and down, almost...
2025-02-2406 min
audiobulbJacek Doroszenko - R_ConsonancesTrembling echoes flow through glass veins like thick mercury, acidic drops seep through air coats, and boiling echoes freeze into amorphous resinous forms. The concrete block of the building hums with the cold rhythm of a repetitive arpeggio _io _io _io _io. The resin absorbs the vibrations of the synthetic flickers, and blue light wraps around its solidified structures. The chemical objects hum light melodies bouncing off the walls as they operate. Drones are born in the gaps, weakening as they come to the surface and giving way to liquid passages. Each tone is a fraction of a chain reaction...
2025-02-0807 min
audiobulbJacek Doroszenko - Resin Arpeggio – Movement ISomewhere between the hum of parallel pipes and the inaccessible laboratories of the chemical factory, the dissonant chords of liquids and machinery reverberate endlessly. The space in which these sound patches resonate causes reverberation and interference of multiplied tones. In this dense composition, it is the space itself that performs the sounds, reflecting and playing them back again, as if it were trying to perform an arpeggio. Sometimes these arpeggios merge into a sound mass and emphasize the acoustic pressure of the chemical space. The resin produced here has the character of a sonic glue, moving as if in slow...
2025-01-2618 min
audiobulbMemory Scale - The Armillary Sphere We All NeedTaken from Memory Scale - Chapter Five
An album that oscillates between lush density and contemplative minimalism. It invites introspection, occasionally laced with moments of quiet euphoria. Fans of artists like Boards of Canada, Seefeel, and The Durutti Column will feel at home here, yet there’s a uniqueness to Memory Scale’s sound that resists simple comparison.
From Cosmic Echoes to Earthly Whispers, there are some proper highlights. "Causes & Effects" opens the album with a gentle ripple of tones, building a sense of anticipation. It’s like stepping into a dimly lit cinema, waiting for the first frame to flicke...
2025-01-1805 min
audiobulbMarc Neys - Storm FishA reflection of Neys's observations in nature, capturing the transient beauty of fleeting moments and the serenity found in stillness.
"I wanted to convey the idea that our thoughts, much like the tides, are ever-changing and influenced by our surroundings," Neys explains. "Through this album, I hope to take listeners on a journey that resonates with their own experiences and emotions."
A blend of evocative melodies and textured soundscapes, showcasing Neys's signature style of combining classical elements with contemporary influences. Each composition serves as a chapter in an overarching narrative, encouraging listeners to reflect on their own emotional tides.
2024-12-0504 min
audiobulbÜmlaut - Artifacts as MediaPrecise and focused, there are no accidents here. A pathway to a very personal world has been created—a world replete with intentional and conceptual connections. Randomness and selection define the edges of digital manipulation, atmospherics and textures. Distant synths and field recordings echo, transform and expand. Intricate details enter the headspace while sounds sketch a new landscape. As in poetics the variation of microstructures and artistic vision are both beautiful and isolated. Through deliberate and detailed production, the album calls forth a defined sense of place. Intentionally random sonic exploration has always been about transforming pure chance into something de...
2024-11-1706 min
audiobulbHenrik Meierkord - MÖRK INovember is here and winter is showing its first signs.
In this album called MÖRK, which means darkness in Swedish, Henrik Meierkord is exploring the deeper meaning of dark tonal depth together with his both classical cello as electric cello and other strings instruments, this time injected with his pedals, electric guitar and synthesizers as a unique sound.
Sometimes you can develop a track by making a mistake, for example if a delay pedal locks itself and becomes a drumbeat by a strange sound. This means that a lot of the tracks are as a matter of fact improvised g...
2024-11-0206 min
audiobulbJacek Doroszenko - Identity Is MalleableIndividuals shape their identity based on the values that are important to them. This process is dynamic and long-term, involving reflection on questions about self, life goals, values and the future.
Contemporary approaches to identity assume that it is constructed and negotiated in response to changing social and cultural conditions. In the conflict over self-concept, multiple types of input can contribute to the total subjective value of each choice option. Interventions that increase the degree to which the target behaviour is perceived as self-relevant will improve self-regulation. Interventions that increase an individual's perception of their own actions as relevant will...
2024-10-1503 min
audiobulbÜmlaut - Attacked By IdeasThe peaceful interplay of sounds evokes a hypnotic sense of movement. The listener is lured into a mind vehicle propelled by serenity and beauty, a journey unimpeded by the physical limitations of travel. Working in a lineage of musique concrète anchors one in the moment. Abstract, beat-less themes and atmospheric percussions interweave throughout the ambient drift and sizzling sound.
2024-09-1205 min
audiobulbDaniel Vickers & Sergio Mariani_MRN - New DawnOnce again Daniel Vickers and Sergio Mariani_MRN cross paths in the mysterious ways of this world. New Dawn is their sonic witness of the simple journey of a simple life, in which each day from above prepares us for the next one, learning love and mercy for one another into the way of peace, the ultimate, always hoped for new dawn. The music is a sweet and nostalgic flow of guitars, musical toys, field recordings and soft synth pads, steering up upon a deep listening experience, the latent and natural emotions of our daily life.
2024-08-1603 min
audiobulbVaux Flores - Manuel Antonio, 5 AM, nearly 20 years after my last encounterAs an artist working with sounds that tend to be science adjacent, one phenomenon that I’m continually intrigued by is the concept of the dawn chorus – both with regard to the ornithological sense of the term, as well as the electromagnetic – not to mention the various confluences that the two may engender. In the case of the former, while not a birder, or at least not one as devoted as numerous colleagues, the avian dawn chorus is an interesting measurement of the ecological health of a region – simply put, barring some exceptions, more birds equals a healthier ecosystem – and on several...
2024-07-2909 min
audiobulbHenrik Meierkord - Erinnerungen - (Glåsbird Remix)We are thrilled to announce the latest musical exploration from renowned cellist and composer Henrik Meierkord who has teamed up with peers to revisit, review and remix his track Erinnerungen. Each artist is invited to bring their own memories and explore an interplay with Henrick’s original form.
Henrik Meierkord's music has been praised for its emotional depth and technical brilliance, with Erinnerungen being no exception. Henrik Meierkord is taking a fresh approach to the composition by collaborating with other artists and reimagining it in a whole new light. The result is an innovative blend of classical and electronic elements th...
2024-07-1304 min
audiobulbNeuro... No Neuro - Afternoon Clouds (Cloud Eleven Remix by Autistici)Afternoon Clouds is the first track from Neuro... No Neuro's Mental Cassette album.
In this remix Autistici detunes the magnetic tape creating clouds of melodic moisture and droplets of static rhythm.
2024-07-0706 min
audiobulbNeuro... No Neuro - Afternoon CloudsReaching back to childhood, the sound of cassette brings forth moments in time long-forgotten. Utilizing melody to help remember, Mental Cassette gently cups dissolving memories; fragmented recall set out on softly unfolding cassette tape reels…
2024-05-2502 min
audiobulbOdNu - RadianceTaken from the album Ronroco Rococo Memories, an album of bubbling rococo ronroco arpeggios that exude melancholic melodies supported by the addition of synth sounds and field recordings. All of these elements takes the album outside of the world music realm and into an experimental micro sound and textural dreamscape full of subconscious memories from OdNu's Argentinian past.
2024-05-1804 min
audiobulbMicah Pick - Earth EverlastingFrameworks is an album that seeks to explore the emotional landscape of changing the lens of how you view the world. Studies have shown that most habits and beliefs are set by the age of seven. And yet, throughout life we sometimes undergo radical change. What does it mean to change the way you think? How does it feel to change the way you view the world? What does it sounds like to leave a part of you that you thought gave life meaning only to find a deeper and truer meaning. The tracks across Frameworks present a narrative arc...
2024-04-1305 min
audiobulbAndrew Heath and Mi Cosa de Resistance - The Night WaiterTaken from the album - Café Tristesse which is a collaboration between Andrew Heath and Fernando Perales (Mi Cosa de Resistance). There is a gentle melancholy at play here set out by Fernando's lo-fi guitar, beautifully hesitant and fragile and Andrew's shifting textures and minimal piano creating clusters of melodic sound.
2024-03-1607 min
audiobulbOdNu + Ümlaut - Abandoned Spaces“Abandoned Spaces” merges both artists' distinctive sounds, talents and approaches to music making into an album that is full of otherworldly textures and melodies. Using a reductive approach to the compositions but with meticulous attention to detail Mazza and Düngfelder create jazzy vignettes that flow through heavily processed electric guitars, bass lines and drums that weave themselves into an ambient landscape of chiming micro sounds and ephemeral melodies. Songs flow into one another like water, which lends a devotional feel to the listening experience. In its truest sense, “Abandoned Spaces” is a tone poem. A merging of seemingly distinctive musical g...
2024-02-1009 min
audiobulbAudiobulb Plays He Can Jog (Vol. 1 & 2) - Preview TrackThese tapes are a collection of new and old music by folks close to the Audiobulb family. Some were commissioned for this project specially and some were produced over the years in other contexts now collected and remastered here.
Most recently I invited some friends and Audiobulb at large to have at a data dump of renders, stems and alternate takes.
Quite a number of pieces feature from a segment of the EP "it's / a / hoot / to / mix / and / match".
I had such plans for those trumpets but they never really materialized in "hoot". I'm really delighted that they've taken...
2024-01-1415 min
audiobulbBuild - RunPerfectly executed electronic music. Motion, glitch with a smooth stability core anchored to multiple interior orientating points.
2023-12-2402 min
audiobulbHenrik Meierkord - Subliminal PerceptionA sense (in Swedish ”förnimmelse”) is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the world through the detection of stimuli.
To this sense the brain can observe color, forms, heat, coldness, taste, movement, smells and sounds.
But also in the unconscious we can experience things and perceive, like in a dream.
While visiting an ancient monastery in Sweden I got a feeling or sensation that something beautiful and sad had happened there. I got inspired by these sensations and made music.
In this album we will take a journey through these sense...
2023-11-0309 min
2023-10-0702 min
audiobulbPulse Mandala & Distant Fires Burning - R Abacus LndrR Abacus Lndr is a colourful collection of ambient glitch, an EP with 4 hauntingly beautiful tracks oozing a dreamy cinematic vibe that reminds of the underground arthouse scene. Often dark and mysterious by nature, the soundscapes evoke a deep and existential state of contemplation about the deepening awareness that there's an entire universe of understanding forever outside our reach. Questions only
lead to more questions, boundaries are fading and behind every fallen curtain a new majestic world emerges waiting to be explored.
2023-09-0905 min
audiobulbWil Bolton - EdgesEdges is taken from the album ‘Swept’, an exploration of emotional turbulence, resilience and rejuvenation. Created with electric guitar, modular and analogue synthesizers and pedals, most of the sounds were recorded at the start of the global pandemic. The album is bookended with field recordings made from the artist’s garden in East London. It opens with the sound of tarpaulin sheets on a neighboring construction site swept by heavy winds during Storm Ciara, shortly before the first UK lockdown, and closes with the sound of birdsong after rainfall, signaling hope for better times.
2023-07-0107 min
audiobulbMemory Scale - You Could See What I HeardMemory Scale, whose real name is Arnaud Castagné, is a French musician living in Bordeaux, specializing in melodic and cinematographic ambient/electronic compositions.
Inspired by artists such as ambient pioneer Brian Eno, the 90s ambient scene, IDM, electronica and Krautrock, as well as the sounds of artists such as The Durutti Column, Dieter Moebius, Seefeel, Boards of Canada or even Tortoise (among others), Memory Scale knew how to merge these varied influences to create a recognizable style.
Memory Scale tracks transport the listener into haunting soundscapes, evoking cinematic images and deep emotions. Delicate melodies blend seamlessly with atmospheric textures, creating a...
2023-06-1705 min
audiobulbHenrik Meierkord - GeschichtenThere is war in Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has once again reminded us that peace is something we need to work on continuously. Sweden has not been in war for over 200 years, at the same time there are many people living here who come from conflict hotspots and areas at war. Parts of the Swedish population carry the trauma of war. Scientists talk about how it takes 4 generations to free oneself from the collective traumas of war. Those who have been living through the war are often silent, they struggle to survive, forget and return to normal life...
2023-05-3008 min
audiobulbRETEXTULE On - WetNeuro... No Neuro creates his sounds as you hear. This is his sound processed by RETEXTULE WET.
2023-05-2100 minaudiobulbRETEXTULE Off - DryNeuro... No Neuro creates his sounds as you hear. This is RETEXTULE DRY (no processing).
2023-05-2100 min
audiobulbNonturn - WhereverAccording to James Surowiecki, author of "The Wisdom of Crowds", for a crowd to be wise, it must meet four conditions, namely: diversity of opinion, independence, decentralization, and an aggregation mechanism. For this album, I gathered 60 different sets from a wide variety of sample libraries all over the world, and from these, I selected a total of 500 pieces of audio data. My goal was to use only these samples, editing them to turn them into musical compositions.
2023-05-0606 min
audiobulbÜmlaut - Causes And ConditionsIn Japanese, Yūgen signifies “a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe… and the sad beauty of human suffering.” Yūgen suggests that which is beyond what can be said, but not as an allusion to another world. It is about this world, about this experience. The album cover and musical tracks were inspired by a piece of art that hangs in my bedroom. For weeks, as I lay on my back after surgery, I looked at the painting every day. It became a sort of meditative practice. Up until my recuperation, the meaning of the painting had elud...
2023-04-1505 min
audiobulbTomo-Nakaguchi - Morning View Of The Iceberg“The Long Night in Winter Light" is an album that began in the fall of 2021, just after the production of "Tayutau" was finished. Compared to its predecessor, which was characterized by a kaleidoscope of sounds created through a dizzying array of myriad material, this album was produced in a more restrained manner, with fewer effects and experimental sounds, and instead features strings and piano at its core. The resulting sound evokes a beautiful, majestic, and harsh snowfield.
This world may still be in darkness. However, the beauty of the starry sky that we casually look up at seems to cast a...
2023-03-1102 min
audiobulbThe OO-Ray - OutsideI started working with generative music processes as a way to give up control. I used simple rules of harmonic modulation with random processes to mutate simple musical ideas into surprising pieces. In other words, I used the generative processes to expand my concepts of ambient music and go in new directions.
The result is an expansion of my musical ideas into longer form pieces. *Generate* is the start of a brand-new musical journey, and I'm excited about the new possibilities. I'm extremely excited about the 13-minute piece, *Undo*, that is both minimal and lush. I no longer feel trapped...
2023-02-1104 min
audiobulbRuss Young - Chancel Of Living TreesPreoccupations with aquatic textures, underwater pianos, a nocturnal atmosphere and fragments from my everyday life merge and overlap. Most of this work has a softly saturated, almost molten character that I associate with the late evening or fading light.
2023-01-1106 min
audiobulbEric van Thyne - Five Year Journey (Around The Sun)Eric is a music producer, engineer, and composer based in Los Angeles, CA. His process involves improvisation and experimental sound techniques, combining my engineering toolset with my deeply rooted musical intuition. Eric's music can be equally inspired by Strauss orchestral works as it is Moog synthesizers. He takes an interest in sonic extremes, oftentimes pushing the limits of an instrument or piece of equipment. Eric is always seeking ways to reinvent and repurpose the tools at his disposal.
2022-12-1006 min
audiobulbB. Tweel - Please Choose An ActivityI began with field recordings of our home and of the music in our home. In contrast to sound-isolated studio recordings, the instruments were recorded in context, with the background sounds of our life present. The purpose was to record how the act of playing music exists in the intimacy of our home.
2022-11-1901 min
audiobulbAuxture Dry SamplesThese are the dry samples that manipulated in AUXTURE V1.5 - see
AUXTURE release page > https://www.audiobulb.com/AUXTURE.htm
2022-10-2300 min
audiobulbBrick & Air II‘Brick and Air’ is a reflective and reactive collection of pieces that show an active engagement with the environments in which we live. In early 2021 Greig moved his family into a new home in a relatively unexplored area of town and was immediately struck by the aesthetics of the location both in sight and sound. The work that followed was all a reflection of this urban space that Greig and his family found themselves. Inspired by countless walks, a few outside recording sessions and sessions of photographing the new locale, Brick and Air was almost diaristic in its evolution. An ode...
2022-09-2804 min
audiobulbÜmlaut - These Days Of TransitionTaken from MUSIQUE DE FILM II
55 soundtracks to 55 one minute films
I approached the creation of 55 films and soundtracks as a condensed spiritual exercise or meditation. A mind cleared of all distraction opens the floodgates to sounds and visuals and flashes of insight. Placing time limitations (at one minute per piece) leaves no room for preconceived notions or second-guessing. The intent was to work fast. Each soundtrack and film was crafted within a 24-hour period. Instrumentals seamlessly merge into an infinite realm of incidental electronics, mechanicals, voice, drones and intonations from the natural world. Corresponding films liquidize and flow with...
2022-09-1101 min
audiobulbOdNu - AwakeAwake is taken from the album “My Own Island” - the result of my latest explorations within the immersive music realm and is my first Dolby Atmos album. My last album “Expansive Nothingness” was mixed binaurally and I really appreciated the spaciousness that the technology lent to my compositions. After that album was released in 2021, I became curious about Dolby Atmos and so alongside the creative process of composing this latest release, I was also figuring out the technical aspects of designing and setting up my own Dolby Atmos studio. I was interested in creating a studio environment that is immersiv...
2022-09-0308 min
audiobulbStrangebird~Sounds - You Are HereSoundscapes from granular re-recorded pieces are moving in all directions, chances and probabilities. The creative possibilities of the modular system react like an underwater eco-system as Strangebird~Sounds soars above taking in the scene. Atmospheric elements soar, an electronic countryside of melody is traversed, the rhythms of nature play a contrast to the backdrop of cloud blown synths.
2022-08-1304 min
audiobulbDarren McClure - Filed As FliesI wanted to create tracks that implied motion, but a subtle motion in otherwise stillness, like the illusion of fluidity in a heat haze. Mostly, I wanted to make an album of unhurried music that was happy taking its time, each track existing in the moment, slowing up and speeding down.
2022-07-2303 min
audiobulbJacek Doroszenko - Get The Perfect Mental SurfaceWe are a creative couple. In our symbiotic everyday life art mixes with reality. We operate in the era of digital dependencies. Contemporary technologies increasingly influence our lives and work, and the dynamics of their development make them more and more integrated with reality. Our location seems to be dominated by virtual images and content – digital immersion is an integral part of every day we spend together. There is no longer a dichotomy between the virtual and real worlds, we exist in a new hybrid space where boundaries extend beyond tangible experience. Fascinated by these phenomena, in the Bodyfulness project we...
2022-06-1805 min
audiobulbFlavia Massimo - StepsTaken from the album - Glitch.
An expressive showcase of Flavia’s highly developed and deeply researched sound. “Glitch” renders her unique cello augmented with extended techniques, voice, synth, field recording, loops and live electronics. An organic world where perfection flutters and distorts with a microcosmic grace. The work “Glitch” is focused on the aesthetic of interferences, errors, and sound granules in a melt of acoustics and electronics.
A glitch, a fault in an electronic system, becomes a malfunction of the classical way of playing the cello, far from the classical music canons to deconstruct the cello sound into small sound cell...
2022-06-0804 min
audiobulbJacek Doroszenko - Landscape Of Algorithmic DesireThe first single heralding the upcoming Bodyfulness album by Jacek Doroszenko feat. Ewa Doroszenko.
2022-06-0408 min
audiobulbIchion - DajIchion is a project by Jason Hobman, a digital sound artist based in Tokyo. His work is ultra-minimal, and the tracks are based around short, often inaudible, samples, looped and manipulated by effects.
His intent is to showcase the sound of the digital glitches rather than the samples themselves.
Each of the tracks is composed from one sound only, each sample being
manipulated into a full-length track. The purpose of the album was to produce something strangely beautiful from fractured rhythms and extreme frequencies.
2022-05-2503 min
audiobulbTomo-Nakaguchi - Night SquallTayutau is a Japanese word that means drifting, floating and unstable. It represents the musicality of this album, as well as the state of mind of Tomo when he was making it. It also hopes that in this unstable and absurd world, people will have time to let feel at will.
The album started with a lot of small sound elements recorded by Tomo. He fleshed them out with numerous effect plug-ins, synthesizers and distorted guitars to create multi-layered beautiful soundscapes like countless colorful creatures dancing at the bottom of the deep sea. They gradually change shape over time and...
2022-05-0503 min
audiobulbDistant Fires Burning - Book Of Rebellion (Anunada Club Mix)Taken from the album - Inperspectycon Vol. 2
This album provides the second installment of Inperspectycon, the first Volume being widely acclaimed by listeners and reviewers alike. Volume 1 outlined the onset and devastating impact of Coronavirus and in this next installment the story continues.
Tracks 1-3 bring Gert’s perspective on endurance and hope with the closing point being DFB132. The remainder of the album brings the variant mutations from Volume 1 with remixes and reinterpretations from Neuro… No Neuro; Volume Objects (Autistici); Stratosphere BOHDRN; Sv r; Anunada and He Can Jog. These works represent a poignant
reminder that the same event is per...
2022-03-2405 min
audiobulbSeigo Aoyama - Helioscope (with Ilya Delire)At the end of winter, the faint breath of life shakes the air as the world is still surrounded by the silence of death. The small breath will eventually become a prelude for the spring when all life plays fanfare and echoes to the world. It's like a majestic symphony played by nature, wrapping the world quietly but with tremendous power. The gentle Eastern breeze, the scent of flowers drifting from afar, the shortening shadows on the ground, the quietly climbing silver moon, the sprouting trees, and the beasts come back to life with their breath. The spring throughout the...
2022-03-0206 min
audiobulbNeuro... No Neuro - Persona(ae)Transducing an organized bauble of fizzled, blurred and decaying memories and recollections into a crisper hallucination of mostly clean tubular icicles, crystal bulb arpeggiator, primal pops and liquids, and a general cosmic oddness, the arid-plane based Tuscon, Arizona synthesist, drummer and artist Kirk Markarian delivers an electronic mirage with his new album, Faces & Fragments.
Under the binary Neuro…No Neuro alias Kirk, we’re told, ‘illuminates fragments of memory and speech, as they wander out of focus in the growing aperture of time’. This translates into 12 tracks – the final track and thirteenth, ‘And The Energy Goes Back To The Ground’, is the one exception...
2022-02-2602 min
audiobulbUltre - CineceWith its three year anniversary on the way Audiobulb Records releases the third edition of its exhibition series. Designed to illustrate the growing confidence in a label sound that has captured the hearts and minds of listeners worldwide.
Ultre’s track is a phenomenal piece of rhythmic programming crafted over a complex piano arrangement played in real time. Ultre’s Finn McNicholas is destined for great things in the world of electronic music. His live performances are picking up praise across the world as he performs with the likes of Tim Exile (planet-Mu), N>E>D (Warp, Overkill).
2022-02-1305 min
audiobulbBluermutt - Pack My Shit And DisappearBluermutt takes a foray into the world of minimal sound design and composition. Clear and clean tones are explored and unpacked into a series of beautiful abstract expressions.
2022-02-0503 min
audiobulbJeremy Bible - Behind The Concrete FactoryThe second instalment of the series invites contemporary artists to capture field recordings and create a composition depicting the essence of their favourite place. The sounds emerge from city streetscapes, deserted factories; isolated countryside and a homely bedroom. The aim has been to enable a creative interaction between external and internal realities. It is hoped that the pieces will inspire the audience to become increasingly active listeners whilst experiencing their own favourite places.
2022-02-0506 min
2021-12-2601 min
audiobulbJimmy Behan - For Dancers OnlyBased in Carlow, Ireland, Jimmy Behan's work blends acoustic and electronic sounds to explore the meeting points of present and past, random and regular, real and imagined.
For Dancers Only is taken from the album Here We Are Now - an exploration of the present moment and the impermanent nature of existence. Sounds and melodies form and unfurl before dissolving and morphing into something else, with no particular purpose other than to be. Recorded during the covid pandemic, it helped remind me to treasure each day, rather than dread the next. The album is dedicated to my dear old cat...
2021-12-1203 min
audiobulbÜmlaut - Aspect PatternA year into lockdown, the pandemic forced me to take a deeper look into myself. Taken out of my comfort zone, I decided to experiment. To think in different ways about composing my music. Themes of luck and chance inform the underlying creative process behind “GRAND TRINE”. In astrology, a grand trine is a harmonious pattern formed when three planets in a horoscope chart are each placed 120 degrees apart in a single moment in time, creating an equilateral triangle. Mindful of the implications of this arrangement, I simplified and clarified my attempts to capture the solemness of the times using medi...
2021-12-0105 min
audiobulbMemory Scale - IslandisTaken from the album Soft Power.
I created this musical project in 2018 with the idea of bringing together my experiences, my memories, my encounters and to feed my compositions. In addition to reorganizing my ideas, I have also reorganized my creative space by orienting myself towards tools and instruments that also represent my feelings.
And I'm talking about my studio because it's a central part of this album. This is where I went regularly for 3 years, once a week, to have a special time, time for exploration and introspection. The rules were not to think about the composition, on the...
2021-11-0304 min
audiobulbDistant Fires Burning - Book Of RebellionThis album is all about Corona and the impact of the measures taken to beat it. As a social worker Gert got to see the undercurrent of what those measures bring about especially to the socially weaker people and it is not a pretty sight. In the past period he saw people collapse on the continuous non-perspective of never being able to get up again. He saw people hopefully trying to do their best to make things bearable. He witnessed people taking refuge in rebellion. He saw people practicing altruism to the most honourable meaning of the word. And he...
2021-10-0611 min
audiobulbOtaru - GrainTaken from the album 'View' which interweaves electronic sounds made with PureData, field recordings, and live musical instruments.
Otaru works with the themes of ‘memory and distant views’, ‘decay and corruption’, ‘flaws and rebuilding’. He creates beautifully broken soundscapes by interweaving ‘cheap’ equipment and guitar effects.
2021-09-1503 min
audiobulbOtaru - [Re]view [VO_1][Re]View is a reimagining of Otaru’s music by a process of remix and reinterpretation by Volume Objects (David Newman - label founder). These reworkings celebrate the beautiful flaws and timeless broken melodies of Otaru’s music.
2021-09-0404 min
audiobulbBuild - A Development With A Grid Of Streets And A Shopping Center HeartAn exceptionally well planned micro-glitch urban landscape created for the convenience of suburban commuters. Engineers, surveyors, electricians and accountants have ensured every detail is correct. The unsightly pipes and wires and tucked deep beneath the surface to ensure a pristine and palatable life experience for inhabitants.
2021-08-1704 min
audiobulbSolace I - Part CCauseyoufair returns with an exploration of loss, comfort given and forgiveness. The work allows themes of meditation, relief and connection to others, nature and sound a form of comfort and recovery. Focusing on space, reverberation, emotional resonance Solace encourages the listener to become truly immersed. It is
not that meditation can ever undo loss but the practice offers a place of refuge, solace, and peace, in some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable.
2021-07-2105 min
audiobulbIntelligent Life - Lost In TranslationOn the crest of “Everything is always the same”, Intelligent Life now presents their visionary second release, “Lost in Translation”. Joining the group is renowned trumpeter Joshua Trinidad, whose burnished tones and spellbinding improvisational skills beguiles the listener with an air of relaxed restraint. The alluring timbre of Brown’s contrabass gently floats the articulated notes of Trinidad’s trumpet, which then seamlessly interweave with the mystical texture of Düngfelder’s
electronic world. Out of this fluidity of sound a new language is born. Boundaries are defused
and the listener gets lost into an unchartered world.
Düngfelder, Brown and Trinidad mer...
2021-07-0206 min
audiobulbOdNu - We Can't See PeopleOdNu’s latest release “Expansive Nothingness” is a binaural 3D textural experimental guitar ambient album. It was recorded throughout the weird year of 2020 as a way for Michel to cope
and channel his feelings on the events that took place. He discovered that even the most intense, chaotic and surreal realities can become harmonious when we don’t let fear control us and we allow ourselves to observe from a perspective of expansive nothingness.
Michel uses the electric guitar as the main sound source for this album but always very processed, sometimes to the unrecognizable and often pushing the guitar sound to...
2021-06-3005 min
audiobulbQuiet Noise - Grand EntranceGrand Entrance is the first track from Quiet Noise's exuberant album Story Machine.
Story Machine sets out an expansive result from a context of limitation and pandemic lockdown. Rather than a sense of confinement we have a sense of adventure, escaping into a melodic alternative reality. This is a joyous journey and a wonderous ride tinged with brilliance aligned to the recent masterpiece works of
Plaid. Adam reflects: “Stuck at home, sitting with my wife and children while they worked from home, I set myself the challenge of creating pieces using only equipment that could fit in my space on th...
2021-05-0502 min
audiobulbQuiet Noise - Grand EntranceStory Machine sets out an expansive result from a context of limitation and pandemic lockdown. Rather than a sense of confinement we have a sense of adventure, escaping into a melodic alternative reality. This is a joyous journey and a wonderous ride tinged with brilliance aligned to the recent masterpiece works of Plaid. Adam reflects: “Stuck at home, sitting with my wife and children while they worked from home, I set myself the challenge of creating pieces using only equipment that could fit in my space on the living room table. Motivated by my game and pleasantly surprised by what I...
2021-05-0302 min
audiobulbIsik Kural - RosemaryMaya’s Night started with me trying to create a soundtrack for the film “Very Eye of Night” by Maya Deren.
Afterwards, I decided to create an album with each track as a different scene for an imaginary film called “Maya’s Night”.
Without a specific narrative it follows the adventures of Maya through her memories and dreams. Main instruments used were Prophet 08, Waldorf Blofeld, Yamaha Reface CS and Vector synthesizers with field recordings.
2021-03-2702 min
2021-03-2103 min
audiobulbNeuro... No Neuro - Fractured RelaxationThe new album ‘Object Models’ has taken a broad, yet calculated approach to both the sound and composition of its elements. While retaining much of the pop-music track length credo of ‘Let’s be Happy', the spacing between parts has become less structured, focusing more on the breathability of track in full. Never fully silent, there is now just as much focus on the quiet parts as the loud.
While a few of these pieces are about prior and current neurological
experiences, the overall focus of ‘Object Models’ is pinpointed on
personality changes due to neurological damage. Socially, having to appear the s...
2021-03-1003 min
audiobulbAuxture 1These tracks were made by Tomo-Nakaguchi using AUXTURE.
http://www.audiobulb.com/AUXTURE.htm
AUXTURE is a sampler based on random playback of files from a folder enabling the audio exploration of single samples or entire folders through gestures, randomness and modulation.
Tomo-Nakaguchi is musician / sound artist living in Yokohama, Japan. He is a member of experimental rock band "1769" and multimedia group "skyward photo film". His work creates dreamy and warm texture use layers of modulated acoustic / electric guitar, sampler, broken tape machine, field recordings and many instruments sound.
2021-02-2602 minaudiobulbAuxture 2These tracks were made by Tomo-Nakaguchi using AUXTURE.
http://www.audiobulb.com/AUXTURE.htm
AUXTURE is a sampler based on random playback of files from a folder enabling the audio exploration of single samples or entire folders through gestures, randomness and modulation.
Tomo-Nakaguchi is musician / sound artist living in Yokohama, Japan. He is a member of experimental rock band "1769" and multimedia group "skyward photo film". His work creates dreamy and warm texture use layers of modulated acoustic / electric guitar, sampler, broken tape machine, field recordings and many instruments sound.
2021-02-2604 min
audiobulbSeigo Aoyama- BlurBlur is from Seigo Aoyama's new album "On The Drift" - based on the original scenery that he has been holding in his heart since childhood. It's like his diary, in which various scenes colored by memories and experiences are drawn through music. His idea in this album is, "Until the day when I live by rooting on the ground, I will flow and drift through the landscape like a cloud floating in the sky."
The scent of flowers drifting out of nowhere on spring nights. At dawn of summer, when everything is asleep, the starlight disappears from the sky...
2021-02-1105 min
audiobulbTomo-Nakaguchi - SmileTomo-Nakaguchi is musician / sound artist living in Yokohama, Japan.
He is a member of experimental rock band "1769" and multimedia group "skyward photo film". His work creates dreamy and warm texture use layers of modulated acoustic / electric guitar, sampler, broken tape machine, field recordings and many instruments sound.
The tracks on this album were composed from 2005 to 2019 and almost every them recorded or re-recorded between 2018 and 2020. Tomo-Nakaguchi created a flood of sounds by processed guitars, synthesizers, chopped loops, smartphone apps sound and more. He aimed to create a sound that blends chaos and beauty on this album.
2021-01-0603 min
audiobulbIntelligent Life - Everything Is Always The SameIntelligent Life makes its powerful debut with this genre-defying album. Ultimately unclassifiable and obsessively listenable, it is an ephemera of sound that defuse boundaries. A structural philosophy of experimental contrabass underscores the ambient, down-tempo and avant-garde components, which fluidly superimpose with the electronica. While the contrabass is clearly a foundational element, it serves more as a point of departure than a defining sonic envelope. Düngfelder & Brown take their disparate experiences and talents to attack convention. Alive with vivid colors they give the meditative music a real edge with the unexpected. It’s full of an idiosyncratic energy not found on...
2021-01-0105 min
audiobulbCauseyoufair - That's The Day Of NeverEndingStoryCauseyoufair has composed two albums of breathtaking beauty, delicacy and grace. The work allows themes to emerge and be explored across 33 tracks and volumes. There is a focus on space, reverberation tales and the emotional resonance stimulated by his refined sound pallet. L’Sonnet Vol. I & Vol. II encourages the listener to become truly immersed - accessin g dreams, desires, love and loss.
2020-12-1607 min
audiobulbRuss Young - PhaloEach track was carefully assembled to create imaginary tunnel-like structures of sound. I tried to create a sense of floating with undulating drones, interspersed with intricate details that loop and unfold. I hope this music has a restful and peaceful effect on the listener.
2020-11-1808 min
audiobulbAV3RY - 9071Av3ry is an AI program and a virtual persona, who is composing music, communicating with people and learning from interactions.
The main component is the on-demand conversation and art generation of the bot. The goal is to create unique pieces of music and art in the given moment - and based on the criteria of the user interaction.
In the idle process, when not communicating, the system generates random exports and creates a database of 10,000 music pieces. Furthermore the system running on its own creates a continuous audio stream broadcasted live 24/7. It is continuously evolving and changing musical progression.
2020-10-1700 min
audiobulbNakamura Tomotsuga - #fluctuationsAudiobulb Records is an exploratory electronic music label proudly based in Sheffield/UK. We support a worldwide roster of wonderful artists whose work is often described as electronic, ambient, microsound, electro-acoustic, idm/glitch and modern classical.
In September 2020 the exploratory music label Audiobulb Records
reaches 100 releases. To celebrate we will be releasing one single
per day for 35 days.
Each single is a unique art piece from artists past and present as well as friends of the label. We consider it a great privilege to work with these artists. Creativity which comes forth in such subtle, beautiful and at times unsettling...
2020-09-0703 min
audiobulbNeuro... No Neuro - Tracing Your SulciTracing Your Sulci - from the album 'Let's Be Happy!'.
Hot on the tail of Neuro... No Neuro’s full-on ambient onset - “A Particular Timeline” - “Let’s Be Happy” provides a mélange of arrangement techniques. Rhythmic, yet less percussive. Melodic, with broken pieces everywhere. Ambient without the long-form structure. Lowercase without the minimalism. Using the practical frameworks of “Scans”, the tracks take on the length of a pop-music track, but are full audio sculptures of a moment in time. Not fragments, but concise, complete builds. While completely without traditional percussive elements, “Let’s Be Happy” is abundant with rhythmic...
2020-07-2202 min
audiobulbÜmlaut - InsightÜmlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. experimental sound artist based in Queens, New York. The thematic concepts distinguishing his work are absence and silence; the ineffable exchange between viewer and image; random moments of stillness within a landscape in flux. The listener sets out on a richly layered journey into the unknown. With computer-as-instrument, fragments of sounds, textures and a warm palette of noise patch together. Found acoustics will tweak the listener's inclination to reflect and discover. Manipulation of sound seamlessly juxtaposes the digital world with field recordings. The universal assimilates with the personal. Sit very quietly, and wh...
2020-06-2406 min
audiobulbMicah Pick - You Know When You Hear ItOn his debut with Audiobulb records, Brighter Than I Thought, he recontextualizes the familiar sound of the piano by processing it with a modular synth. This creates a swirl of electro-acoustic landscapes. Each track was recorded in one take where the synth processed the piano improvisations live. Courage, Dear Heart uses the 2hp Pluck synth voice and What We’re Fighting Against includes the Make Noise 0-coast, otherwise, all other musical sounds on the album have the piano as their sole sound source.
Tying the musical elements together are snippets of field recordings Micah captured during his everyday life to am...
2020-05-2004 min
audiobulbAN MOKU And Virlyn - Steelyard BluesOf Mirrors has been recorded from November 2011 until March 2012. After finishing it, we kept this album in a secret place until today...
Electronics, instrumental and field recordings by AN MOKU. Electronics and Mixing by Virlyn. Mastering by Weldroid. Swiss Performers: Piano by Cornellia Stromeyer | Violin by Orina Zänerle | Cello by Jacki Knöpfel. All instrumental and field recordings captured in Switzerland and Iceland. Ending of «Frost» captured during an orchestral warm up session at Harpa, Reykjavik. Modified spoken sample taken from «The Seventh Seal» by Bergman, 1957. Cover Picture by Dominik Grenzler.
2020-04-2208 min
audiobulbNeuro... No Neuro - Flexible Expansion"While Scans explored much of the process of the last brain surgery, "A Particular Timeline" moves solidly into the day-to-day. From incoherent thought, to pondering one's own timeline, and moments of sheer longing, A Particular Timeline bridges the gap between several permanently residual issues both prior to and following the story behind Scans. A long-term set of side-effects. Using different sound sources, A Particular Timeline provides a flowing, ever-spreading, gentle touch, opposite of Scans' percussive taps and whirs. Moments meant to lose oneself in."
2020-03-0805 min
audiobulbMichael Peters & Fabio Anile - Presence"Presence" - the natural, silent, transparent state of mind, non-conceptual and not identified with any mental content, entirely and effortlessly awake and lucid, in total peace.
Quiet ambient soundscapes for piano, electric guitar, electronics, live-looping, and field recordings. The music was entirely improvised and recorded during several recording sessions in Rome between 2010 and 2018. There are no overdubs (except for the field recordings).
2019-12-1504 min
audiobulbDarren McClure - Knots“A Mere Fraction” is an album that explores a sense of time and place. Each track was built around found sounds that connect to the memory of recording, containing a personal narrative within its nine pieces. Composed between the winter of 2018 and spring of 2019 for Audiobulb.
2019-11-1903 min
audiobulbWil Bolton - Nets (extract)‘Kochi’ is an immersive, heavily textured ambient album inspired by memories of the Arabian Sea. The four lengthy tracks are all centred around field recordings of Fort Kochi beach in Kochi, a port city in Kerala, South India. The character of the environment is captured in the sounds of lapping waves, birdsong and crow calls, the buzz of fishermen, traders and locals walking in the sand.
These sounds are layered with Indian cowbells and elephant bells, and hypnotic, evolving drones created with a shruti box, melodica and Moog semi-modular analogue synthesizer. Glockenspiel and electric guitar played through a swathe of effe...
2019-10-1904 min
audiobulbNeuro... No Neuro - Enjoy The Magnetic EmbraceScans is a masterpiece in exactly disconnected electronic music. In Kirk’s words … “Starting from the very first track, Scan One is actually the composition that brought this album’s theme to fruition. In the beginning of the year 2011, I had agreed to get an MRI scan to check for a brain tumor that had been removed twice before (recurrent atypical meningioma). The tumor had returned and plans for a third brain surgery were set into motion. Each of these tracks portrays a particular mental or emotional state throughout the process. From the delivery of the news through the results of the c...
2019-09-1802 min
audiobulbNeuro... No Neuro - Pulling The Cords Tighter‘The Edges Are All Wrong’ is a collection of tracks over the past 3 years that really began to collect a broader set of memories, emotions, and experiences beyond the negative. Drawn from the mysterious and other-worldly side effects derived from intrusion into the Broca and Wernicke brain regions, ‘The Edges Are All Wrong’ brings forth the flickering lights and hallucinations; the grasp for words that cannot be found and memories lost. The methods of improvisation on a daily basis to appear normal enough to fit into ordinary situations where you know full well that you do not.
2019-08-2101 min
audiobulbFlos - Sign 10The philosophy of improvisation is essential to Flos as it makes the performance an actuality where musicians have to tune in to each other in an unpredictable interplay built around why, step by step, organizes itself or unwinds randomly. Thus, there grows the "flos", the "flower" of music or best perceptible part of musical interaction."
2019-07-2002 min
audiobulbCauseyoufair - RecklessIn his second release, ‘In Blue On A Vaporous Sky’, Causeyoufair continues to focus on an acoustic space designed to enable meditation and introspective healing. Between notes, reverb and silence each moment is allowed to be, fade and disappear. The choices of notes catch you when you let yourself go deep into the experience. Of course, everyone will feel it differently but the artist invites you to experience sentimental warmth, sweet dreams and an ambience that carries you away.
2019-06-2605 min
audiobulbÜmlaut - The Most Obtuse ObjectsÜmlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. electronic music composer who is based in Queens, New York. The thematic concepts distinguishing his work are absence and silence; the ineffable exchange between viewer and image; random moments of stillness within a landscape in flux. The listener sets out on a richly layered journey into the unknown. As
Rajneesh once said: “Sit very quietly, and when the scenery shifts, slip between it.”
In the First Wave
With calming spirit, Ümlaut’s new album “In the First Wave” explores the reciprocity of silence and noise. As an atmospheric sound poem, the breathing spaces betwee...
2019-05-2906 min
audiobulbTomotsugu Nakamura - Monologue“monologue” was born from conversation with the nature around. So, this work might actually be called “dialogue”. I focused on removing all unnecessary elements, so that the form has become more simple and acoustical. Total balance and stillness in human life is my purpose. I hope that some of my work will sneak calmly into the listeners’ mind and cure their heart.
2019-04-2002 min
audiobulbRuss Young - PolarisI made this short collection of microsound collages in the early hours of the morning before work. They began to take on a restful dream-like quality which I enhanced by imagining nocturnal scenes, cave systems, caverns, islands, and night skies. The title of the EP makes a tentative reference to Aldous Huxley’s Utopian classic ‘The Island’. I hope that the listener, too is transported to imaginary places of their own and feels rested by this music.
2019-03-2006 min
audiobulbMike Vernusky - Vibrational EmpireAustin-based composer Mike Vernusky writes music for concert, theatre, dance, and film, primarily using electronic sound and live performance. His works have been called ‘brash’ by the New York Times, ‘isolationist’ by The Wire, 'otherworldly' by New Music USA, and 'étonnante' by the French publication EtherReal.
Mike Vernusky’s new album “MotherSpeak” is a time-compression of the African bush-veld connecting South Africa and Botswana. Consisting of five unique sound worlds, the album takes the listener from being immersed in insects and wind, to swimming with underwater environments and entities, to exposing the intervention of the human hand in nature - finally culmi...
2019-02-2003 min
audiobulbÜmlaut - On The Feelings That StayMUSIQUE DE FILM is a collection of soundtrack compositions for a series of short films created by me. The films and the sounds exist on 2 planes: first: the sound breathes life into silent images of motion; and second: pure sound invites the listener to conjure his or her own mental imagery. When I create a film, I first strip out all sound. I want to first tell a silent visual story. A point of inspiration is Brian Eno’s song Spider and I: "Spider and I / Sit watching the sky / On our world without sound.” Once my filmic story is comp...
2019-01-0507 min
audiobulbGlass Locus - TournTaken from the album Escapism - out now on Audiobulb Records.
Built on soft, endlessly resampled and meticulously constructed soundscapes, the music of ‘Escapism’ treads a path between the heavens of beautiful reverb-soaked pads and the depths, with deep bass accentuating each synth hit that passes through the wide stereo field constructed over the course of eight tracks. The album conveys feelings of melancholy, loss and ecstasy over its course, joining into one extended story that flows from one piece into the next, yet still keeps the listener interested and challenged by offering more than one style to contend with.
2018-08-2205 min
audiobulbEndless Endless - v7Endless Endless provides an ever expanding organic arrangement space. Artists are invited to send 120 second tracks of ambient audio to Audiobulb. Tracks are mixed alternatively into the start or the end of the piece in a manner that expands Endless Endless.
The 7th version of the project now runs for over two hours.
With thanks to the artists as follows:
monty adkins | the tin box | correspondence | fastus | distant fires burning | man eat fish | model 201 | massimiliano viel | gydja | matt burnett | zumaia | gingerdream | shinichiroa | sonoro | alan courtis | :l | pascal savy | mark harris | madrayken | naoki ishida | robert noize | sleeping echoes | david stevens | mark...
2018-06-162h 06
audiobulbCorrespondence - Playing FieldCorrespondence is the recording project of Ben Catt, an electronic musician and library worker based in Yorkshire. He previously played guitar in the Leeds noise-pop group Molars (2014-2016) and has recorded solo work extensively under various names for over ten years. Wave Recital is his first full album release following several ‘work in progress’ EPs and cassettes shared via Bandcamp.
Combining MIDI instrumentation, live percussion and field recordings, Wave Recital explores a variety of textures and dynamics over eight instrumental tracks. Each piece is written using a different process-based method (indebted to Steve Reich’s early essays), for example the increa...
2017-11-0403 min
audiobulbThe Tin Box - Wellspring UnlimitedTaken from the album Invisible Kin out now on Audiobulb Records.
Invisible Kin guides the listener on an expedition into the psyche in which successive layers of identity are peeled back to reveal a pantheon of archetypal themes. Spacious ambient backdrops, hypnotic swirling melodies, and fracturing percussive rhythms provide a roadmap to the discovery of synergistic relationships between music and experience. The interplay of melodic architecture and decomposition is a constant theme throughout the album in which the nature of the identity of both the musical arrangements and the listener are explored.
2017-09-2506 min
audiobulbThe Tin Box - Far Away SpacesFrom the album Invisible Kin - released on Audiobulb records 25/09/17. www.audiobulb.com
Tucker Sferro is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer who began his career playing trumpet in live jazz ensembles, moving on to guitar, bass, and electronic music production with various bands throughout the Northeastern US in the late 90s and 2000s. He is known for blending rich and complex synth melodies with layered percussion, cultivating an innovative organic sound through assorted digital processes. Tucker is fascinated with mathematical models of probability and weaves a large component of chance into his compositions and live sets to create music that...
2017-08-2606 min