Gleam

Bubble

Starfish

So Thankful

New Sevish album Formless Shadows coming September 17th 2021 — it's a quite cinematic album with a variety of moods on it. You can listen on streaming and Bandcamp.

This is the first time I've been able to release two albums in the same year. But you'll find Formless Shadows quite a different listen to January's Bubble. I just really had the urge to make music like this so here it is. As I write this I'm already making plans for future projects that go in a totally different direction. So big thanks to everybody who listens and supports my music making!

Formless Shadows

Garden of Light

I Won't Forget

Hexdeep

Morphable

Rocko's Theme

Zero Nothings

Big Sway

Pwns

What Year Is This

Sleep Deprived Cooked Alive

IT IS

From Rhythm and Xen by Sevish [2015]
https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-xen

Droplet

Just another track from Rhythm and Xen, the 2015 album by Sevish. Please consider supporting my music by buying the album from https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-xen

Spreading love for microtonal music. And any music that subverts traditional musical tuning systems.

Neon Tetra Elemental

From Rhythm and Xen (2015) by Sevish:
https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-xen

Desert Island Rain

a progression in 22-edo. the tempo and expression are controlled by random walk. sound designs using Xen-Arts IVOR and FMTS2.

The Sky Are Sick

Microtonal drum and bass from MK-SUPERDUPER: https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/mk-superduper

The Before Time

Microtonal drum and bass from MK-SUPERDUPER: sevish.bandcamp.com/album/mk-superduper

MK-SUPERDUPER

Sega Genesis remix of Slot House from Shenmue I. Trying to support a great series. Keep the dream alive - #SaveShenmueHD

Shenmue I Slot House (Sega Genesis Remix)

tuning is 19-equal (if I remember correctly).

unfinished track from 2011 that I rediscovered today

Chiptune drum and bass in a microtonal just intonation scale.

Download Harmony Hacker: https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/harmony-hacker
Track 1: Orbital

Ok my new album 'Harmony Hacker' is out! Here's a track in the Bohlen-Pierce scale. Bohlen-Pierce is one of the wackiest microtonal tunings discovered.

Harmony Hacker

Orbital

Ask Yourself

From my new album Harmony Hacker - https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/harmony-hacker

I grew up playing video games. I still play them today, but when I was a kid my favourite system was the Sega Mega Drive. One thing that always brings me back to those simple times is hearing the sound of the Mega Drive’s FM synth. It has a characteristic grating and bright sound that I just love.

I bought a VST instrument called FMDrive which quite faithfully reproduces the sound of the original Mega Drive sound chip. The only problem was that it couldn’t be microtuned.

I wrote a couple of emails to the developer, Aly James, and he sent me a custom build of his synth with support for microtonal equal-tempered scales. The first thing I did was make this track in 10-EDO.

It’s my first time using 10-EDO. I tried to focus on using it like a warped diatonic scale instead of two interlocking 5-EDO scales, but you can hear both approaches used.

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Vidya

yoooooo new album 'Horixens' is out. this is the last track on the album. 22 tone equal temperament is the tuning. enjoy!

Horixens

Horizons

yoooooo new album 'Horixens' is out. this one is in marveldene tuning. enjoy!

Baobaoshuijiaojiao

Come on a Journey

Harp-like piano and beats, tuned with 22 tones in an octave

Ambrosia

Plot Hole

xenharmonic bass music

Sevish (aka Sean Archibald) is an electronic musician from London, UK. His music is fast and atmospheric. The style mainly gravitates around drum & bass and other electronic dance music varieties, although even ambient and chilled works have been released under this moniker. Sevish sidesteps pop structures and familiar "EDM" tropes, instead trying to capture the essence of something flowing and meandering. It's the perfect music for blocking mind-altering radiation.

Since his album Golden Hour, Sevish's technique has included a dark art known as microtonality/xenharmonics. For short, we can call this xen. Simply put, the xen aesthetic tries to achieve new musical ideas by making things more or less in-tune than normal music. For something that is so easy to describe, you would think that every musician was doing it. Sadly, the technicalities of (ab)using musical tunings to create xen music are too much for most musicians to muster at this point in time. Perhaps 3D printing will change that in the future, allowing new instruments with crazy tunings to be developed quickly and cheaply. Until then, it's the domain of a few tinkerers and madmen scattered across the globe. One of those being Sevish, who blends xen with his own brand of experimental dance music.

The xen movement is still small but growing rapidly. It has a lively facebook group, its own wiki (deeply incomprehensible to all but the initiated), and about as many dedicated record labels as you could count on one hand.

In 2010, Sevish launched his own netlabel to get together the scattered artists composing xen music. Called split-notes, this label is known for its focus on xen-with-a-beat, and most of its releases are free to download with Creative Commons licensing. While the output of the label has slowed down due to other commitments, it's still alive with new releases showing up from time to time.

Sevish's music has been put out by the Dutch label Dubbhism Deluxe. In 2011, Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon released an album called Subversio to online music shops and popular streaming services. This project lies somewhere between being a band album and being a compilation, as each of the 3 artists provided 3 solo tracks each. So it's more of a musical triptych than either of those things. Certainly a form of collaborative album that can (and will) be explored further. Each of the musicians on Subversio combine xen with beats and bass, but their individual styles contrast and compliment. Tony Dubshot excels at trippy electro dub with lots of analog processing. Jacky Ligon's style is often described as oceanic or panoramic, with fluid and rotating beats and deeply moving atmospheres and melodies. And Sevish's style... well, you already know by now.

In 2014 Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon followed with 23, something of a mini-album in the same stylistic ballpark as 2011's Subversio. Numerology, conspiracy and ancient knowledge is something that the trio is attracted to, and 23 is inspired from that.

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