Adrian Lane

Adrian Lane is a visual artist and musician from Southend-on-Sea in the UK, releasing music under his own name since 2013. His music has appeared on various labels including Preserved Sound, Oscarson, Hibernate, Chitra, and Whitelabrecs. His music explores sounds largely from acoustic sources, but using the computer as a writing tool, he works much more like an electronic musician, exploring contrasts between the organic and synthetic. In the ever-evolving landscape of ambient and neo-classical music, Adrian Lane stands as a dedicated artist, continuously pushing boundaries and weaving sonic tapestries that captivate listeners with their depth and emotional resonance.

Releases: AB168

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 + AB165a + AB165b

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

Daniel Blinkhorn / FrostbYte

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 + AB161

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

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 + AB150 + AB155

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 + AB154 + AB159-S + AB159

Marc Neys

Marc Neys is a multifaceted artist based in the serene countryside of Bazel, Belgium. As a painter, composer, and videopoet, Neys has carved a unique niche that blends visual art with evocative soundscapes and poetic storytelling. With a passion for exploring the interplay between different artistic mediums, he has released several albums that showcase his innovative approach to composition and narrative. In a world where art can be both a refuge and a commentary, Neys continues to push boundaries, inviting us all to experience the rich tapestry of life through his eyes.

Releases: AB157 + AB164

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 + AB158

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

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 + AB149

Nobuka

Putting the punk back in ambient: by continuously challenging conventions and making music from a DIY mentality. nobuka’s work pulls you in for a warm hug, while punching you in the face at the same time. Always looking to experiment, and to unsettle both themselves and the audience.

Creating a new reality out of breaking things down and putting them back together again, nobuka moves in the crevices between experimentalism, modern composition, minimalism, noise and ambient music. They are non-conforming in all sorts of ways: in music, life and gender.

Releases: AB163

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 + AB148 + AB160 + AB169

Paul Beaudoin

For Paul Beaudoin, sound unfolds like thought taking shape in time. His work traces the thresholds between hearing and remembering, where tones blur and stillness collapses into the echo of memory. Drawing from acoustic and electronic sources, he builds soundscapes that encourage the listener to sense how meaning gathers and disintegrates through the act of listening. Each piece offers a quiet architecture of concentration, inviting us to dwell within the fragile persistence of sound.

Releases: AB170

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

Seth Thorn

Dr. Seth D. Thorn is an American violinist whose research encompasses interaction design and philosophical approaches to computational media. His work interrogates normativity and cognitivism in HCI through a variety of computational tools and theoretical perspectives informed by sound and music techniques. Dr. Thorn brings the familiar experience of the blurring of certain corporeal boundaries in embodied performance, augmented with adapted real-time computational media, into dialogue with philosophical studies on materialism, assemblage theory, affect, relation, individuation, and neurodiversity, and bridges these studies into concrete social impact to increase diversity, participation, and inclusion in computing.

Releases: AB166

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 + AB162

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 + AB153 + AB156 + AB160 + AB167 + AB170

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