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Hailing from Lexington, Kentucky, Severin made their live debut on October 31st, 2023 in their hometown's foremost DIY venue, Changeling Manor. All but one of these songs are originals; "Black is the Color" is a folk song. Lightly edited. Mistakes included, because that's where the magic is. 

Tools: Voice, Electric Guitar, Ableton, Korg Minilog XD, Audacity, Modular Synthesizer, Death by Audio Vocal and Guitar Effects Pedals.

The lyrics of "Alchemical Dance" were written collaboratively with Chat GPT and Google Bard. First, each AI program was prompted to write a poem. Severin printed these out and deployed William Burroughs and Brion Gysin's cut-up method to combine, sculpt and rearrange the words. Then, Severin added their own lines and edited words and sentence structure. Severin typed up the results and worked with ChatGPT on further edits. This digital-analog collage process was repeated several times before reaching its final incarnation, heard here. "Black is the Color" is a traditional folk song. Severin's cover takes major inspiration from Nina Simone's version of the song. 

Alchemical Dance

Carrion

City of Night

Black is the Color

Two psychedelic industrial bangers written on a Eurorack modular synth using field recordings of city life. Shout out to Tip Top Audio's ONE module. 
Composed in December 2022, released 2 years later. 

broken clock

I performed under the alias Aris Æther at Berlin's legendary, now-defunct DIY venue Loophole. This was my debut performance in Berlin, and my second ever live performance of original music. 
With support from the wonderfully talented Max Prudhomme on drums. 

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