An Moku & Virlyn

Dominik Grenzler aka AN MOKU is a sound artist and bass guitar player from Switzerland, with a spot for experimental and ambient soundscapes. Frédéric Vanderlynden aka Virlyn is a sound artist from Belgium, with a special interest in ambient sounds, experimental electronica, acoustic soundscapes. 

Releases: AB096 + AB100

Aria Rostami

Aria Rostami is a musician and producer living in San Francisco. His work follows a "beginning, middle and end" structure that is heavily influenced by films and books rather than by music. His current work focuses on giving electronic music a spontaneous and organic feel that mimics an environment rather than portrays a song. Rostami has created ambient pieces for installations and produced scores for films.

Releases: AB047 + AB049 + AB064 + AB100

Av3ry

Av3ry 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.

Releases: AB101

Correspondence

Ben Catt explores a variety of textures and dynamics using a range of different process-based method (indebted to Steve Reich’s early essays), for example the increasing duration of electric piano and harp note. This carefully structured approach to composition is countered by occasional flashes of noise and unpredictability. Beautiful work crafted with skill and patience.

Releases: AB073 + AB100

Darren McClure

Darren McClure is from Northern Ireland, now living in Matsumoto, Japan.  His audio work focuses on texture, space and atmosphere.  Sound sources are both analogue and digital, hardware and software, incorporating found sounds and field recordings to lend an organic, tactile quality to the material.  His main intent is to create music to zone out to and zone into, a balance of widescreen drones and more minimal, abstract ambience.

Releases: AB093 + AB100 + AB125

Eric Van Thyne

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.

Releases: AB131

Ficture

The sonic outcome of Gábor Tokár's alter-ego Ficture is a collage of various sound sources, ranging from field recordings to analog synthesizers while keeping in mind that literally everything around us can be a potential part of music. Sound manipulation and re-sampling of self-recorded audio has a big role in his “meticulously electronic, yet strikingly organic” work.

Releases: AB076

Flavia Massimo

Flavia Massimo is a contemporary cellist, sound designer and event curator, both trained in classical and electronic music. She composes soundtracks for exhibitions, audio-guides, dance and theatre performances and creates interactive art installations. She conducts the workshop "Artigianato elettronico del suono" and is the artistic director of " Paesaggi Sonori", an unusual festival of cultural events in exceptional naturalistic locations.

Releases: AB123

FrostbYte / Daniel Blinkhorn

Daniel Blinkhorn has worked in a variety of creative, academic, research and teaching contexts, and is an ardent location field recordist, where he has embarked upon a growing number of recording expeditions throughout Africa, Alaska, Amazon, West Indies, Northern Europe, Middle East, Australia and the high Arctic/ North Pole.

Releases: AB065

Glass Locus

Glass Locus is a musical project by UK native Matt H. that follows a path between ambient music and the potential discord that can arise from experimenting within it. Combining genres such as Bass music and Techno into the traditional ambient fold of pads and soft drums, the music of Glass Locus is an endlessly mutating and difficult to pin-down beast that has never been afraid to have some fun with convention.

Releases: AB079 + AB100

How To Cure Our Soul

Through an intense process working with digital and analogue instruments, How To Cure Our Soul evokes a reflective space - philosophy, landscapes (natural and human) and communication. They work with videos, music and photos, finding new outcomes from a reinterpretation of reality.

Releases: AB061

Intelligent Life

Düngfelder, Brown and Trinidad merge their individual experiences and talents to produce meditative music with an edge. With a blend of idiosyncrasy, depth and the unexpected it is a unique palette not come across in most experimental albums.

Jeff Düngfelder: Computer & Electronics
Mike Brown: Contrabass
Joshua Trinidad: Trumpet

Releases: AB089 + AB109

Isik Kural

Isik Kural is a songwriter from Istanbul who enjoys ambient synths and field recordings. His debut album “as flurries” came out on Italian cassette label, Almost Halloween Time Records in 2019. Isik currently lives in Glasgow.

Releases: AB107

Jules Archive

Jules Archive is a new anonymous project. Through the use of different kind of technologies, instruments and attitudes, the project aims to create a mysterious and fantastic author, called Jules, who will propose to the listeners a dreaming atmosphere and persona far from reality, living in exotic and non-existent spatiotemporal dimensions. Jules Archive is the spontaneity of the imagination and storytelling.

Releases: AB075

Kein

Kein is a sound artist and performer from Italy. His work focuses on contemporary digital music. His signature sound incorporates beautifully broken rhythmic frameworks which are entwined with evocative melodic textures and melodies. As well as Audiobulb Records, Kein has released music on Helvet Underground (Switzerland), Nuhar Records (Italy), Cinoci Records (UK) and several European netlabels.

Releases: AB053 + AB100

Luca Formentini

Emotional depth and intuitive music are what Formentini is after and it is these two elements , which have brought him in musical contact with Can's Holger Czukay and Markus Stockhausen - both known for their equally idiosyncratic attitude. A dance between improvisation and composition, between Sound Art, Jazz and Ambient, leading its audience away into a land where these terms turned entirely irrelevant.

Releases: AB082

Luis Garcia

Luis' interests in sound have carried him from a small border town near Mexico to graduate school in London, then to an unexpected life in Seoul and other cities in Asia. He has exhibited sound installations in various parts of the world and worked on sound scores for films which have premiered in several different countries. A commitment to opening ears to sounds of all natures is what drives him.

Releases: AB045

The Hole Punch Generation

Alternate guitar tunings passed through SuperCollider, Max/MSP, and Reaktor patches. Analog synthesizer patches made and printed. Game Boy sound chips hacked for textures we couldn’t find anywhere else. Toy pianos bought and broken as we beat out melodies. Strings arranged then re-arranged. Field recordings and sound designs chopped up live using Monomes. Bass lines passed through fuzz pedals.

Releases: AB033 + AB34

Niklas Schak

Man Eats Fish is focused around tension between fiction and reality. Man eats fish works combined visual art, felt recordings, music and animation. He is educated in the Danish music conservatorium in film composition and has studied abstract sound texture, classical piano, composition and instrumentation. Based in Copenhagen Denmark Niklas Schak has under the pseudonym “Great Music” composed score music for more than 60 film and modern dance theatre since 2003, together with Tin Soheili.

Releases: AB056

Marihiko Hara

Marihiko Hara (b. 1983) is a composer residing in Kyoto, Japan. His main interest is to compose serene silence in music and to pursue his own texture of sounds, through electric/acoustic sounds and field recordings. He was invited for an improvised session with Ryuichi Sakamoto on the radio. He produces music for theatre performances and people involved in many fields, such as “VESSEL” by Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa, Hideki Noda’s works, Paris Fashion Week and Kabuki.

Releases: AB043

Matthias Grübel

Berlin-based musician and producer Matthias Grübel mainly works as a composer soundtracking theatre productions. Projects outside the theatre stretch from radio plays to audio-installations. Earlier releases include albums and EPs as Phon°noir and Telekaster. The Longest Year In History marks Grübel's first release using his real name as well as his first collaboration with Audiobulb.

Releases: AB057 + AB100

Melodium

My name is Laurent Girard, i was born in 1975. I learnt piano when I was young, then electronic organ. At this period, I was already making my own music, based on melody. I spent years playing melodies on the piano or organ... I have been working with collage of difference sources of sounds including my own field recordings, noises captured in background sound of movies, TV shows, radio shows. I can't help making melodies, I make minimal acoustic instrumentals immersed in various sounds and noises.

Releases: AB067 + AB100

Michael Peters & Fabio Anile

Michael Peters (Germany) played guitar in punk bands, ambient projects, avant-garde jazz/rock bands, and open improvisational groups. His guitar is usually extended by electronics, software, and live-looping techniques, sometimes using the classical "Frippertronics" method based on tape delay. Fabio Anile (Italy) is a classically trained pianist and composer. He defines his music as a "a work on the theme of time". In this regard, there is a continuum between his ambient and his polymetric minimalist pieces.

Releases: AB094

Mike Vernusky

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.

Releases: AB084 + AB100

Moss Covered Technology

Minimal | Electronics

Audiobulb Records | Eilean Rec. (FR) | Fluid Audio (UK) | Hibernate (UK) | Polar Seas Recordings.

Releases: AB128

Otaru

Tomohiro Toyota's solo project Otaru began in 2018 while majoring in video at an art university. 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. Tomohiro has studied music and sound for video and is inspired by film scores and the electronica of the early 2000s.

Releases: AB113 + AB113-EP

:Papercutz

:papercutz is about adventurous pop music. Pursuing a balance between acoustic and electronic sounds on instrumental and vocal tracks, Bruno Miguel's young band has resulted from his love of live instrumentation, organic electronics, dream like melodies, pop vocals and cinematic piano ambience. There is a dreamy, ethereal, cinematic aspect to :papercutz's music which has drawn worldwide admiration.

Releases: AB029

Pascal Savy

Tools manipulated in an old workshop, clocks slowed down, the spinning wheel of a rusty bike, children playing near a church, the sound of the wind in Norfolk, climbing up the stairs in a disused windmill, ghost echoes. Those are some sounds that constitute the atmosphere of The Silent Watcher. Presented in their raw form or heavily processed, they all relate to old memories, often blurred and incomplete; the aural equivalent of a faded polaroid.

Releases: AB042 + AB100

Quiet Noise

Adam Wilkinson applies years spent as a sound engineer to a large and well-ordered collection of things that make noise. His compositions have ended up on nature documentaries, short films and the albums of MC’s who think different. Collaborative efforts with singers and internationally renowned musicians have captivated the interest of Radio DJ’s. Radio Wales’ Adam Walton called his sound “evocative” and says he “would like to live inside Quiet Noise’s music.”

Releases: AB059 + AB066 + AB100 + AB108

Swimming

Devon Ferrucci is an artist based in Arcata, California who often plays music under the name Swimming. Sometimes he finds his friends joining him under that alias as well. Devon plays guitar, drums, and various object s made from metal, plastic, and
colourful wires. He likes to record interesting textures, turn knobs, press buttons, and see what happens.

Releases: AB037 + AB100

Szymon Kaliski

Szymon Kaliski is young musician living in small town near Poznanń, Poland. He composes sounds basing on simple acoustic loops and field recordings, transforming them into broken repetitive melodies and minimalistic drones.

Releases: AB044

Tatsuro Kojima

My approach to music, having received a specialized education in art, might be said to be closer to that of paintings and sculptures. Being conscious in the handling of elements such as hue, saturation, brightness, mass, form, and texture, I directly apply these principles to sound as well. My inspirations are visual rather than musical. To me, there is no boundary in particular between making music and drawing a picture.

Releases: AB039 + AB063 + AB100

The Tin Box

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. 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 is constantly evolving.

Releases: AB072

Xumla

Xumla is the artistry of Ilya Goryachev, who at 30 years of age is living in his town of birth Yaroslavl, Russia. Xumla was born in a search for simplicity. Xumla likes to produce naivety within sound. Marked by gentle, almost fragile melodies, broken rhythmic patterns, minimalistic arrangements and characteristic textured layering of musical themes. Each work of Xumla is an element of live musical canvas, micro fibers which grow into each other.

Releases: AB052

Yuki Aida & Tomotsugu Nakamura

Tomotsugu Nakamura is a sound artist residing in Tokyo, Japan. His primary artistic practice is composing music by acoustic instruments, and field recordings. His sounds function like a sketch; dotted patterns on white clean paper.

Yuki Aida is a Japanese sound artist. His music crosses the boundaries of ambient and dance and has received complimentary feedback from Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Releases: AB055