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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.
Audiobulb came into being in 2003. Surrounded by amazing music coming from the early netlable scene and music forums such as EM411.com, David Newman the label curator felt compelled to create a home for exploratory music. Since that time it has been a privaledge to work with artists from around the world who are authentically exploring who they are by presenting a narrative of their life experience through sound. Twenty years on our music features on top Spotify and Apple playlists and is streamed over 100k per month.
The name Audiobulb comes from a sense of sound as light, light as sound. The experience of synesthesia, the phenomena where there is a crossover between the senses. Audiobulb as a name that conveys sound as light – hopefully leading to an illumination within the listener’s mind.
As well as music Audiobulb releases multimedia works, focussed projects, VST (virtual instruments), audio hardware and other creative tools. An outline of these other creative avenues are detailed below:
Endless Endless (v7)
It is an evolving never-ending ambient track. Artists submit 120 second pieces and they are added to the start or the end of the track. Over time it grows and develops. We are currently on version 7 and it includes contributions of over 70 artists – running for 2 hours & 6 mins.
https://soundcloud.com/audiobulb/endless-endless-v7
Root of Sine
There are five Root of Sine Volumes – each one a whole album made from the starting point of a single one second sinewave. A sine wave is waveform of a single constant frequency and amplitude that continues for all time. Since a sine wave has only a single frequency associated with it, it may be considered the simplest sound. The sine wave is the embodiment of audio-purity and strength as it presents an unchanging tonal quality.
VST plugins
Exploratory music requires you to have the tools to make news sounds in new ways. Audiobulb has been lucky to work closely with programmers who have engineered ingenious Virtual Studio Tools (VST) and software modules.
Visit our software section and you will meet SOPHIE by Xik - a mutated synth that produces shuddering dark sounds.
The AMBIENT software module designed by the talented Christopher Hipgrave (an electronic musician in his own right) has proven to be very popular with sound designers. It has received unanimous praise for its ability to manipulate sound by breaking it into microscopic grains of audio and casting an ambient light in its outputs.
LISSAJOUS is a real-time audio reactive graphics application inspired by the work of Jules Antoine Lissajous. The software shows sound oscillations as XY matrix functions and creates complex graphics curves. LISSAJOUS graphically describes sound and allow observation of constantly varying signal voltage of two audio signals as function of time. Video generated by sound can be controlled in endless ways by giving to the user the possibility of a whole-new range of interactions.
In recent years we have welcomed GRAINSCAPE and AUXTURE. These remarkable sound design tools bring a wealth of unique compositional and experimental performance options into light.
