Andrew Heath and Mi Cosa de Resistance

Andrew Heath is a UK based artist. He composes piano based ambient music. As well as many solo releases under his own name, he has collaborated with artists including legendary German musician, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, experimental classical composers, Christopher Chaplin and Simon McCorry, Dutch ambient guitarist, Anne Chris Bakker and fellow Audiobulb artist, Seigo Aoyama. Fernando Perales is an Argentinian ambient composer working under the name Mi Cosa de Resistance. Experimenting here with ethereal, lo-fi guitar recordings, his broad based music has been released on many labels.

Releases: AB146

Autistici / Volume Objects

Autistici (aka Volume Objects) creates audio narratives aimed at exploring the interchange between sound and space. Space in this context also includes the subjective space held within the listener. In this realm, reflection and fantasy recontextualise the sound according to the listener’s inner world or psyche. This fascination on the interplay between inner and outer world embodies Autistici’s sound.

Releases: AB001 + AB002 + AB004 + AB006 + AB026 + AB028 + AB030 + AB032 + AB050 + AB062 + AB100 + AB113-EP + ABXNNN

Build

An exceptionally well planned micro-glitch urban landscape created for the convenience of suburban commuters. Engineers, surveyors, electricians and accountants have ensured every detail is correct. The unsightly pipes and wires and tucked deep beneath the surface to ensure a pristine and palatable life experience for inhabitants.

Releases: AB001 + AB002 + AB004 + AB006 + AB011 + AB112 + AB143

B. Tweel / Build Buildings

Build Buildings is Ben Tweel. He makes music with household sounds, instruments, samples, and computers. Build Buildings has been featured on radio, television and motion picture soundtracks (including NBC’s World of Adventure Sports; National Public Radio’s Radiolab, On the Media and StartUp; and feature documentary Valley Uprising) and can be heard on a variety of internet and traditional radio stations.

Releases: AB060 + AB074 + AB100 + AB130

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

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). In 2007 Gert started to experiment more with ambient and it became clear that Distant Fires Burning was the vehicle for a very personal expression and one in which the bass guitar re-entered as the primary source. Distant Fires Burning is Gert’s expression through bass - enhanced and manipulated to create a very unique and personal sound.

Releases: AB080 + AB100 + AB114 + AB120 + AB140

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

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

He Can Jog

I'm Erik Schoster a sound artist based in Minnesota.

Releases: AB001 + AB002 + AB004 + AB017 + AB038 + AB100 + AB144

Henrik Meierkord

Henrik Meierkord is a Swedish musician based in Stockholm, experimenting with different genres. With the cello as his main instrument, he also masters viola, double bass, guitar and numerous other instruments. His keywords in making music are pause, vacuum of time, the unconscious, consciousness, dream, meditation, a way of avoiding direct thoughts and reality. He combines Neoclassical approach with his string instruments and effects and sometimes together with synthesizers.

Releases: AB137 + AB142

Jacek Doroszenko

Jacek Doroszenko is an artist active in the area of visual and sound arts. The core of his practice is to treat sound phenomena as a legitimate material of a field of visual art. Artist’s practice engages with the contemporary soundscape to select and rephrase the notion of noise as unwanted element. He uses a wide array of processes including installation, field recording, video, music score concepts and drawing, depending on context. His work also features the visual artist Ewa Doroszenko.

Releases: AB070 + AB100 + AB124-S1 + AB124-S2 + AB124

Jimmy Behan

The beauty is in the detail. Carlow-born Jimmy Behan produces pristine, emotional, intricate electro- acoustic music. He has taken a less-is-more approach to his sound palate via a process of refinement and streamlining. Barely there shapes, shifts and shadows and the introduction of micro-moods produce flickering bursts of ambient soundscapes. Jimmy's work retains a warm, emotional heart and soul that stirs the imagination.

Releases: AB020 + AB100 + AB117

Memory Scale

Memory Scale is the project of Arnaud Castagné, from Bordeaux, France. Memory Scale is a cinematographic universe based on sound textures and synthetic melodies, mixing electronica and ambient to create a hybrid and contemplative pop. I created this musical project in 2018 with the idea of bringing together my experiences, my memories, my encounters and to feed my compositions.

Releases: AB115 + AB139

Micah Pick

Micah Pick is a classically trained musician based in Bedford, Virginia (USA) who works as a collaborative pianist and music educator. Tying the musical elements together are snippets of field recordings Micah captured during his everyday life to amplify the emotional themes of the album. These themes explore the surprise at finding unexpected joy even at our darkest moments when our worst fears are realized and facing the unique stresses of adulthood by retaining a sense of childlike joy.

Releases: AB097 + AB147

Moss Covered Technology

Minimal | Electronics

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

Releases: AB128

Neuro... No Neuro

Neuro... No Neuro (NNN) is a moniker of the electronic musician Kirk Markarian, an avid synthesist, drummer, abstract painter, and graphic designer residing on the alluvial plain of the Sonoran Desert, in dry and dusty Tucson, Arizona. Flickering lights and hallucinations; the grasp for words that cannot be found and memories lost. The methods of improvisation on a daily basis to appear normal enough to fit into ordinary situations where you know full well that you do not

Releases: AB090 + AB091 + AB095 + AB099 + AB100 + AB106 + ABXNNN

Nonturn

Nonturn is Nozom Yoneda, a musician working mainly in Tokyo. He collects environmental sounds and makes rhythmic and cinematic music using his harvested audio. He made his debut in the drum'n'bass scene from UK’s EastSide Records in 2004. Nozom enjoys vigorously exploring his creative energy through photography taking artistic photographs of street walls. The cover of Territory is a photograph of paint left by cars who have accidentally scraped against a concrete post.

Releases: AB077 + AB136

OdNu

Michel Mazza's compositions are a constant experiment and interplay of instruments, different techniques, electronics and his moods and feelings. He often works with repetitive tiny melodies creating a dialogue between them amid textures of grainy decomposed sounds often from his main instrument the guitar but also including synths, (usually triggered using the midi guitar), field recordings and other acoustic instruments, the result is melodic, cinematic and otherworldly.

Releases: AB110 + AB127 + AB145

The OO-Ray

Ted Laderas is a scientist, a cellist, and electroacoustic composer. He combines cello performance techniques with sound processing techniques to expand the outer realms of the cello. Marc Wiedenbaum of Disquiet wrote of his work: “As mediated by Laderas’ bank of technology, the lone cello takes on a kind of serene majesty – sustained, rich, formidable.”

Releases: AB048 + AB078 + AB133

Porya Hatami

Porya Hatami (b.1981) is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/ minimal, his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field recordings. His Debut album released on UK based Somehow Recordings in January 2012 and since then he has worked with numerous high quality record labels.

Releases: AB068 + AB100

Pulse Mandala & Distant Fires Burning

Wim Daans (Pulse Mandala, previously Karma De La Luna, former member of Lords Of Acid) and Gert De Meester (Distant Fires Burning, The Mental Attack, Reverend Basstorius) joined forces, each from their unique vision on ambient music. Gert's trademark bass guitar glitch effects are blending magically with Wim's modular synths and electronics.

Releases: AB140

Russ Young

I usually work by trying to create forms out of found audio and material extracted from field recordings. I like to think in terms of skins of sounds and what characteristics I can pour into it them to create a hybrid. I take field recordings of everywhere I go, searching for ‘sound marks’ or 'habitats' that I can capture and use to generate new sound designs and inspire new work.

Releases: AB054 + AB085 + AB102 + AB132

Seigo Aoyama

Seigo Aoyama is a Japanese musician/composer/sound designer residing in Tokyo. He 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 started incorporating field recording into his contemporary, ambient or experimental music.

Releases: AB081 + AB100 + AB105 + AB118

Strangebird~Sounds

Strangebird~Sounds Is Gregory Geerts, an experimental composer/sound artist based in the city Antwerp, in Belgium. Strangebird~Sounds collects his life experience through audio. Field recordings feature from his many walks through cities, towns and countryside. Ambient microsound combines with electronics to support a complete listening experience taking in and combining elements and views. This is a meditative, electro-acoustic approach, the patchwork of sounds are almost ASMR-like and are perfect to be focused or creative.

Releases: AB126

Tomo-Nakaguchi

Tomo-Nakaguchi is musician / sound artist living in Yokohama, Japan.

He is a member of experimental rock band "1769" and multi media group "skyward photo film".

His work creates dreamy and warm texture use layers of modulated acoustic / electric guitar, sampler, broken tape machine, field recordings and many instruments sound.

Releases: AB104 + AB121 + AB134

Tomotsugu Nakamura

Tomotsugu has received continuous support from many artist like Laurence English and Nils Frahm. His live performances have featured in art galleries participating with Stephan Mathieu + Taylor Deupree + Federico Durand during their tour of Japan. Tomotsugu has had sound installations in the art festival "steirischerherbst’18" in Austria. In 2016 his 3rd album “An opened book in the dark” was released from Kaico, this followed previous releases with Audiobulb & White Paddy Mountain.

Releases: AB055 + AB086 + AB100 + AB141

Ümlaut

Ümlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. experimental composer/sound artist now based in the northern Connecticut countryside. 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. Using a minimalistic, electro-acoustic approach, his elusive patchwork of field recordings and electronics merge the world of shadows and colours. His memory recordings expose the complex relationship between music and silence.

Releases: AB083 + AB087 + AB098 + AB100 + AB116 + AB129 + AB135 + AB145

Wil Bolton

Wil Bolton is a London-based artist and musician. He makes predominantly sound-based artworks for both CD releases and installations, often enhanced with video or photography. His audio work uses guitars, acoustic instruments, vintage keyboards and effects to create warm and emotive melodies, fragmented and submerged among beds of droning ambient textures and environmental sounds.

Releases: AB092 + AB100 + AB138