Name: RGB by Sevish in ｘｅｎ / avant garde / experimental
Duration: 2 min 42 s
Description: Chiptune drum and bass in a microtonal just intonation scale.

which software and hardware did you use for this?

sounds like YMCK but the hues are slightly different, cool break at 2.30

"Xenharmonic" music with alternative tuning (e.g. Just Intonation, Bohlen-Pierce, Wendy Carlos scales). Also some noise/concrete music, and a few otherwise typical pieces with a single odd aspect such as uneven rhythm.

ｘｅｎ / avant garde / experimental

Mohajira improv

HATE - BAD HISTORY - SIDE A

このアルバムは2022年、Freespace（West Kowloon Cultural District、香港）および横浜赤レンガ倉庫1号館で発表された梅田宏明の振付ダンス作品「indivisible substance」のために制作した楽曲を再編集した作品です。

This album is a re-edited compilation of music tracks that were originally created for the dance piece "indivisible substance" choreographed by Hiroaki Umeda, presented in 2022 at Freespace (West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong) and Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1 (Japan).

Direction・Choreography : Umeda Hiroaki
Visual creation : THINK AND SENSE

sound produced by AOKI takamasa
mastered by Stefan Betke (SCAPE MASTERING)

SOUNDS for IDVSBL_SBSTC

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chordsearchv777 (CLIP)

Club Dalí 08

From KAPS003 – gyrofield – Suspension of Belief

Vegetation Grows Thick

from the album HausLive 4, coming out April 29th, 2025:
https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/hauslive-4

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet - On the horizon

stay

DJ mix from refuge presents 3AD: Techno Train (June 7, 2025)
video
https://youtu.be/UvVHWIsWtTc?si=Pj9C2QENh7rUow4r

1		Giordarno -	Lalande 21185
2		vcfox -	Junction of G re-edit
3		Regis -	Masterside 1 
4		Alexander Kowalski -	Black Box Treatment
5		Marco Bailey & Tom Hades -	Cartman
6		Alarico -	Push to Select
7		Electric Rescue -	Control Your Mind
8		Jackson Brother -	This Is Recon
9		MARK BROOM -	Rave Juice
10		Jay Denham -	Pride (It's Time) [Giacomo Stallone Remix]
11		Alexander Kowalski -	Hot Spot (The Advent Remix)
12		KEN ISHII -	EXTRA
13		Tal Fussman -	Everybody (KiNK Remix)
14		Wata Igarashi -	泡 (Abuku)

3DA:Techno Train

njs2

Vorbi - 29/07/2025

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

Desert Island Rain

Tonality Flux Demo

Chiptune drum and bass in a microtonal just intonation scale.

Harmony Hacker

Ask Yourself

hi i occasionally post bits of ""music"" here.
also anything labelled with another artist name is definitely by that artist, and not by me.

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.

RGB

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