Name: The Sky Are Sick by Sevish in ｘｅｎ / avant garde / experimental
Duration: 2 min 30 s
Description: a progression in 22-edo. the tempo and expression are controlled by random walk. sound designs using Xen-Arts IVOR and FMTS2.

@lajos-gyorgy-meszaros: In this case both of the synth parts are playing the same MIDI data, so I don't think this counts as hocketing. The higher pitched notes are triggered when the velocity hits a certain level, which allows higher harmonics in the patch to break out. One of those cool Xen-Arts features that get totally forgotten about!

@olahaxen: Thanks! My laptop was feeling expressive that day when it controlled the tempo with a random walk.

Hey I really want to make song with you, I love your stuff it's really beautiful. It helps me focus

"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

Purchase (Choose your price): https://hoverman.bandcamp.com/album/lp-moonbeast
Getting the album from bandcamp will also give you a bonus track which is not on my soundcloud or youtube.

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empyrean

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Hey chaps. It's been ages since I uploaded on here but I put a new album out since the last one. A more ambient album. But then there were a few weird tracks like this one.

It's called When We Implode.
https://locusttoybox.bandcamp.com/album/when-we-implode-2-bonus-tracks

Rupes

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoet-yYZKkjxfNUcoIA5GgA

Withheld

https://hoverman.bandcamp.com/album/meteor-remixes-pt-1

Auto-Barrier (maturity Remix)

08192023

Soundtrack that takes me back to my first day in school and all the adventures and excitement, the friends I made and some nerves too - immersive track to chill out too and hopefully enjoy!

First Day

Kult

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

Tonality Flux Demo

Chiptune drum and bass in a microtonal just intonation scale.

evelyn champagne king
lil bow wow
cakedog
j. albert
snd
kid a
the ny dub
wayne gardiner
dj roc
travis scott
yasha
dj nigga fox
shinichi atobe

summer preparation mix

Harmony Hacker

Ask Yourself

GrandparentsDay.xm

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.

The Sky Are Sick

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