Name: unfinished track from 2011 that I rediscovered today by Sevish in ｘｅｎ / avant garde / experimental
Duration: 3 min 56 s
Description: tuning is 19-equal (if I remember correctly).

Reminds me of Oliver Buckland. I Love this!

thanks you saved my SC experience which was headed off the rails

listening for the third or fourth time. Really good. Exciting. Cool bendy pitch on the piano. Even the middle (down) section chords sound really cool, usually I don't like those approximations in 19-equal on piano, but maybe I've just been too picky. Great sounds. I'm always imagining what these pieces would sound like in other systems, but 19 has pretty good bang forbuck.

quintuplets yeyah! This is great listening back (again). Then woah that change at 2:24! I'd love to hear more of your stuff

"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

MAGIK MIC -  STUDDED

Yosemite

Apollo Free Time

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

Desert Island Rain

Tonality Flux Demo

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

unfinished track from 2011 that I rediscovered today

this is the very short theme I did for my PICO-8 voxel shmup (playable here → https://chiptune.itch.io/zepton).

since the music is very short, the PICO-8 exporter loop it during 4 minutes :D

ZEPTON (title)

Chiptune drum and bass in a microtonal just intonation scale.

Harmony Hacker

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.

sevish.com
sevish.com/spotify
sevish.com/itunes
sevish.com/soundcloud
sevish.com/facebook
sevish.com/twitter

Vidya

Made upon multiple SID outputs, layered together, featured on Summer of SID compilation:
https://c64audio.com/pages/summer

Artwork by James Svärd

Seychelles

From "Nadir" (2014) https://4mat.bandcamp.com/album/nadir

Vampires (A through Z)

Thoughts

Made in one day during boring lectures...
Released @ Notlicht 2020

Picture taken from https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=76793

Reflections

Cover art by (he he) Silly: https://www.patreon.com/HeHeSilly

Special thanks to our $5 Patreon supporters (Oct 2020):
🤠 688as
🥉 a nimble sperg
💲 Aaron Wentworth
☘️ Alex O'Kelly
🐊 Andre Wynn
🎲 Apex
🍇 Basket of Grapes
🧀 Ben Cheevers
🥜 No_Nuts
🍗 BOLDYSPICY!
🐱 Brady Rainey
🚗 Chris Carley
🌬️ CounterfeitCoof
🍆 Dick Masterson
🍻 Dillon Bly
🍺 Dmitriy Barsukov
🎮 Erb Beta Patched
👊 Fistacorpse
💨 Fred Rush
👾 godmonster
💪 Grant Mooney
🍬 Herbet Sherbertbert
🏈 James Gifford
🍝 John Vindiola
🏠 Jonny Holmes
⚖️ Justin Telfer
🏃‍♂️ KevinDoubleDash
🛏️ Kevin Kozan
🍋 Lemonsakee
😮 MickeyMitch
⛔ No thanks
😠 Peeves91
🥊 PunchLaura
🎬 Randy
🍯 sagacious zu's sex cauldron
☝️ Sam U
🌭 Show your dick who's Master, Son.
🍫 Snickelaer
🐶Teddy Bear Syrup
🦁 The Zoo
🌊 Thomas C
🦊 Travis
🥾 Trentworth
🚫 Umpty Madoo
🥞 UnemFloyed
❓ Various
🌽 Willie

Snooze Juice

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.

unfinished track from 2011 that I rediscovered today

Sevish

Recent comments

Orz

oscariscreative

Mority

Cam Taylor

Related tracks