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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 b...

With 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 fo...

Bluermutt 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.

The 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 inspi...

I'm your Boyfriend.

Based 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, wi...

A 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 degree...

Taken 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 par...

This 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 t...

Taken 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.

[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.

An 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.

Causeyoufair 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,...

On 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...

OdNu’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 obser...

Grand 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...

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...

Maya’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 a...

Tracks made using Audiobulb AUXTURE software by Wayoutgentleman

The 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...

These 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 multi...

These 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 multi...

Blur 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 s...

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. The tracks on this album were composed from 2005 to 2019 and almost ever...

Intelligent 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...