A stunning playlist of artists featured on Audiobulb.

Audiobulb Records is an exploratory music label designed to promote creativity in all its forms. Audiobulb releases artist works on CD & download formats as well as multimedia works, VST (virtual instruments), audio hardware and other creative tools. Our aim is to facilitate the development of new artists working within a realm of care, quality and craft.

Works supported by Audiobulb often explore the interface between the electronic and natural world. We embrace the complexity of unique electronics, intricate acoustics and detailed microsound.

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Taken 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 the music, one into the next, enveloping the listener/viewer in a protective world of otherworldly calm. I chose to make a total of 55 pieces because the number 55 is the tenth number (the number of “completeness”) in the Fibonacci sequence (F10).  The mathematical pattern of the Fibonacci numbers also presents itself in Art and in Nature, and, now, in MUSIQUE DE FILM II.

Ümlaut - These Days Of Transition

I 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.

Bring in the Lampstand and Light Its Lamps

B. Tweel - Please Choose An Activity

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.

Tape 1

Eric van Thyne - Five Year Journey (Around The Sun)

Preoccupations 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.

Cloak

Russ Young - Chancel Of Living Trees

I 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 by perfectionism and I'm excited for the future. 

I used Eurorack, Cello, Granular Synths, and other instrumentation to make these songs. All pieces were recorded as a single take with minimal overdubs. I hope you enjoy this album as much as I did whilst making it.

Generate

The OO-Ray - Outside

“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 ray of light on this world.

The Long Night in Winter Light

Tomo-Nakaguchi - Morning View Of The Iceberg

In 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 eluded me. But over time, a closer focus on the artwork brought forth a revelation. The painting was about being reborn. New life, with no attachment to the past and no expectation of the future. A profound liberation of the spirit overtook me. Electronic sparks, intonations, chords, arrhythmic percussions, chimes and whooshes of sound free floated through my imagination… and “same but different” was born.

Same But Different

Ümlaut - Causes And Conditions

According 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.

Jellybeans

Whenever

Nonturn - Wherever

There 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 to protect their children, the second generation grows up with a feeling that everything has not been told, that something is wrong, and they begin asking questions. And so, it is transferred between generations and can thus be a hidden trauma.

Henrik Meierkord - Geschichten

Edges 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.

Swept

Wil Bolton - Edges

Memory 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 an immersive auditory experience.

Memory Scale - You Could See What I Heard

R 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.

R Abacus Lndr

Pulse Mandala & Distant Fires Burning - R Abacus Lndr

"Antenna" is focused on glitching sounds.

Antenna

Tomotsugu Nakamura - Wildmint

A 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 senses, from the world we live in, to the dream, the unconscious and things beyond words, sometimes a bit like music. It's an abstract experience…

”Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people”

”Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes” (C.G Jung)

F​ö​rnimmelser

Henrik Meierkord - Subliminal Perception

Perfectly executed electronic music. Motion, glitch with a smooth stability core anchored to multiple interior orientating points.

Orienting Points

Build - Run

These 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 on a new life.

Audiobulb Plays He Can Jog (Vol. 1 & 2)

Audiobulb Plays He Can Jog

Audiobulb Plays He Can Jog (Vol. 1 & 2) - Preview Track

“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 genres, it is an album of pristine sound design and unclassifiable style.

Abandoned Spaces

OdNu + Ümlaut - Abandoned Spaces

Taken 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.

Café Tristesse

Andrew Heath and Mi Cosa de Resistance - The Night Waiter

Frameworks 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 of having a belief, relationship, ideal, or other foundational aspect of your life that is removed from your life. The album moves through the spaces of unease and tension, but ultimately finds itself in a new space of hope and calm. The music of Frameworks is built on a piano tuned, not to the traditional 12 tones of equal temperament, but rather to Just Intonation scales of the composer’s devising. Some of these intervals are as close as a sixth of a tone apart. At the beginning of the album, these microtones are utilized to show tension and discomfort, but by the end the listening ear becomes acclimated to them, and they are recontextualized by the harmonies to sound warm and inviting. This serves to further the narrative of the album as a whole. Throughout the album the piano is wrapped in granular processing, analog and modular synths, self-patched filters, and programmed beats.

Frameworks

Micah Pick - Earth Everlasting

Taken 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.

Ronroco Rococo Memories

OdNu - Radiance

Audiobulb Records is an exploratory music label designed to promote creativity in all its forms. Audiobulb releases artist works on CD & download formats as well as multimedia works, VST (virtual instruments), audio hardware and other creative tools. We embrace the complexity of unique electronics, intricate acoustics and detailed microsound. Home of 'Endless Endless', 'Root of Sign' and the AMBIENT and Lissajous sound modules.