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Audiobulb 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...

Tracing 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...

Ümlaut 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 war...

On 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...

Of 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...

"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 s...

"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...

“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.

‘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 so...

Scans 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...

‘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...

The 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."

In 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...

Ümlaut 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 scener...

“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.

I 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 imaginar...

Austin-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-vel...

MUSIQUE 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 i...

In a way, Scintilla hits the reset button on Formentini's approach to music. The new collection is a solitary investigation, a private walk through intense and yet delicate emotional landscapes. Some of the ideas date back as far as 2008. Formentini would pick them up at opportune moments and work on them in his own time,playing and recording all the instruments at home – with the exception of som...

Seigo Aoyama is a Japanese musician/composer/sound designer residing in Tokyo. He had been playing the piano since his childhood and started his career in music from 20 years old playing piano & keyboards in many pop, rock and jazz groups. During his career, he studied classical musical and with a focus on 20th century composers (Debussy, Stravinsky, Cage, Reich and musique concrete). In 2014 he s...

DISTANT FIRES BURNING The creative work of Gert De Meester from the town of Battel (A suburb of Mechelen, Belgium, at the confluence of three rivers). Gerts musical outlet always represented a very diverse palette of musical genres. He started out as a bass-player for rock, thrash, funk and pop bands including: The Hindu Needle Trick and The Seven Laws Of Woo. Elsewhere he was creating electronic...

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 int...

Taken 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 feeling...

I’ve worked on the material for Tiny Fugues for over three years, composing and improvising with the cello and electronic instruments. This album is about searching and finding the unexpected in the everyday. Finding hope and positivity in the midst of despair and depression. Finding the grand and symphonic in simple melodies. Through this search, and our resulting curiosity and compassion for eve...

Endless 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 | correspondenc...