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 an old 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 the 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.

Live at Changeling Manor Halloween 2023

dj demo on air tuesday april 5th 
wbar @ barnard college
some parts of the set are elina and anna learning!

wbar radio dj set 4/6/22

pappy’s baby carrot (dj set)

for sound: advanced topics ii (spring 2022)

ARIA1

pilgrims

1969

live original song performed at Changeling Manor Halloween show, Oct. 31st, 2023 ~ Aris Æther

Prayer4theApocalypse - live @ Changeling Manor Halloween 2023 - rawdog edition

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(ﾐⓛᆽⓛﾐ)✧ ETRUSCAN JPEG MIX!!! ミ๏ｖ๏彡 march 17th, 2021 (ﾐⓛᆽⓛﾐ)✧ fka dj Severin >>>>> Aris Æther

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.

Prayer for the Apocalypse

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

hide my face

Track completed on January 9th, 2023. Dedicated to Doris Norton, a huge inspiration and true legend. Check out some of her work here:
- https://nopizzarave.bandcamp.com/album/npr-012
- https://open.spotify.com/album/75betup7CKnE7iWQLstL1i?si=xsS3PwacTymx1cSVhWUetw

Doris

Transmutation was first performed by PinkNoise Ensemble in December 2022, with Roberta Michel on flute, Ashlée Miller on clarinet, and Aaron Wolff on cello.

I wrote Transmutation for my Advanced Composition course at Columbia University. I came to the course as an electronic musician with one year of music theory under my belt. For much of the semester, I created graphic scores without specific notes, and wrote the music on my Korg Minilogue synthesizer. For the first rehearsal, I played audio excerpts from my synthesizer for the musicians and presented them with a graphic score that included no specific notes. I knew that the score was representative of sound, but it took a long time before the connection between score and sound became direct, and I developed a hybrid notation system throughout the semester. This composition has been more than challenging, but ultimately it exists among the most rewarding experiences of my life. I am proud to present you with my first composition for ensemble: Transmutation.

PERFORMANCE NOTES
Transmutation's score (available upon request) is a work of science fiction. Think of it as an artefact from one future of many, an alien diagram for a technology that does not yet exist on earth. As the player, it is up to you to interpret how this fictional technology sounds. Performing Transmutation is an exercise in the spontaneous experience of collective improvisation and imagination. Transmutation refers to the alchemical process of changing one thing into another.

This score presents alternative temporalities, in that the timeline of the piece is not linear and will sound different every time it is played. This score is an experiment in form; in order to convey my ideas, I looked to formal structures from other fields such as electrical engineering and computer science. Transmutation is an imaginary circuit, a fantastical computer architecture diagram and neural network full of invented symbols. Look for electrical symbols such as resistors, signal flow pathways, inductors, and power sources, operational amplifiers, and much more. In Transmutation, sound and electricity are analogous. Along with electrically-inspired structures, this score includes rainforest sounds and magical symbols.

For Sinclair Brazier.

© Music Copyright by Eliana Shapere, 2022 Copyrighted for all countries. All rights reserved. First printed on November 25th, 2022.

Transmutation

DJ Set by Severin at 3o6 Collective's Sustainable Fashion Sale at Giri Berlin on September 8th, 2024. 
RA Event - https://ra.co/events/1988299
Giri Berlin - https://www.instagram.com/giri.berlino/
3o6 Collective - https://www.3o6.co.uk/ + https://www.instagram.com/333o666/ 

Severin DJ Set at Giri Berlin

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. 

Severin Live at Loophole - February 13th, 2023

04 The Bomb + Scroll Over Beethoven + Waken (live at Datsche Magdeburg) (feat. Severin)

02 Circular (live at Datsche Magdeburg) (feat. Severin)

01 Wayout High Theia (live at Datsche Magdeburg)

03 Doomscrolling + Out Of your Tiny Mind + Nothing (live at Datsche Magdeburg)

⋆alien popstar⋆<->⋆bimbo chaos technician⋆
post-punk, industrial noise, krautrock, psychedelic goth
                
༺♥༻create🔁destroy༺♥༻⋆

⍟voice, modular, guitar, viola, diy hardware, computer, and sometimes DJ (if ur lucky)⍟

SEVERIN

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