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

my place (mel*n cover)

Commit

This is a demo of what can be done with the Italo Disco expansion in VPS Avenger. It's a great expansion. I'm working on a making-of video for this track as well.  Maybe I'll creae a full version of it later.

Cosmic Disc (Italo Disco VPS Avenger demo)

This was the final project for my control systems class. we were tasked in creating an ambient piece of music using a combination of hardware and software synths in Ableton Live.

all patches, including the drums, aside from the main echo-pluck and the piano, were designed by myself on either the Roland SYSTEM-1m, or on various software synths

WaveTraveler

The Opening track for a Concept album about the last days and the destruction of Atlantis
Paul Landry, VST symths.
Composed and performed by Paul Landry
© 2025 Paul Landry
℗ 2025 Ditto Music LTD


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Last Days on Atlantis

"Played" an old GDR analog string synth (Vermona Piano-Strings) with some keys taped down to free my hands. Sent it through a filter bank emphasizing the vocal formants and then into a legendary phaser pedal with wooden cheeks. Accompanied by Moog Subharmonicon and a simple bass patch on the modular synth.

Airborne

Traum eines Weltraumreisenden, die Reise zum Pluto

Pluto

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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Harmony Hacker

Vidya

Channeling Amaryllis again

10 unfinished clips (2020/2021)

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.