Audiobulb Records.

Exploratory Electronic Music

Darkness Is Just Darkness.

Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkordnturn

Darkness Is Just Darkness is a collaborative album by Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken and cellist Henrik Meierkord, presenting a stripped-back convergence of ambient music and spoken word. Intimate and unembellished, the record unfolds at a measured pace, allowing texture, silence, and language to carry equal weight.

The album’s music is written and constructed by Millar-McMeeken, whose previous work has consistently explored minimalism, repetition, and emotional directness. Here, those concerns are pushed further inward. Synths, drones, and understated harmonic shifts provide a fragile framework for Meierkord’s cello, which moves between sustained tones, uneasy scrapes, and mournful melodic fragments. Nothing feels decorative; every sound exists in service of mood and meaning.

Rather than framing darkness as something to transcend, the album treats it as a neutral state—something to sit with, observe, and understand. The result is a record that rewards close listening and time, offering a space where ambiguity is not only allowed but essential.

Video by Ralf Moussa

The narrative takes on the process of ice melting during this time of the year. As in both realistic and abstract notions and forms, the visual aims to embody a parallel from the geological nature on how ice melts. How the war blowing into my country Lebanon has exposed bigger areas of debate on notions of not only morality, but strength of character, opinionation, distress and relief. Where this visual work exposes the chaotic in correlation to order.

Silence in the Dark resolves, in one having the same attributes in the shadows as for under the spotlight not keeping no war alter ones character between war and peace. Noise and calm. The same thought/deed orientation. In colour as in dark black and white.

Ralph Moussa – www.ralfmoussa.art

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REGRESSOR

Build your neural network - train your performance! Regressor is a Max for Live device that uses machine learning to map input signals (MIDI controllers, sensors, data streams) to parameters in Ableton Live. Instead of building control mappings by hand, you train Regressor with examples and it learns how to connect your inputs to any number of outputs. The result is a flexible, multidimensional control system you can set up in minutes.

AMBIENT

Unique standalone audio processing software capable of radical sound sculpting and design. Capable of producing a vast array of ambient textures, from the bizarre to the beautiful. Paint with sound.

LISSAJOUS + L-SCOPE

A real-time audio reactive graphics application for M4L inspired by the work of Jules Antoine Lissajous. It explores the field of harmony and disorder letting the user dip into a dreamlike yet chaotic space.

RETEXTUAL

RETEXTULE is a 4-parallel looper type effector that can change the playback speed. Interesting textures can be created with parallel loopers with variable playback speed.

AUXTURE

Unique experimental sampler & sequencer (AUX-Seq) which enables the user to manipulate and record single samples or entire folders of samples through gesture, randomness and modulation.

GRAINSCAPE

GRAINSCAPE opens up a multiverse of sound - making infinite variations from single sound. Implant your stems to unlock variations that can be harvested and re-employed within your track.

M4L-BULBS (Free download)

M4L-Bulbs is pack of five M4L plugins that work inside Ableton Live. They are designed to provide the quick creation of interesting sounds using a powerful technique called spectral processing.