Sean Archibald (born 1988), also known as Sevish, is a British electronic music composer from London. Described by Aaron Krister Johnson as "a well-known creative force in the world of online microtonal music," he is most known for his compositions which combine aspects of electronic dance music with microtonality.[1][2] As a child Archibald was inspired by music in video games such as Chrono Trigger, Streets of Rage, and Sonic the Hedgehog. He would then go on to discover microtonality as a teenager by listening to gamelan music and Aphex Twin. At age 16 he began officially releasing music online and released his first solo album at age 20.[3][4] He first gained notoriety in the microtonal music scene with his 2010 release, Golden Hour.[4][5][6] Sevish's 2011 xenharmonic dance album, Subversio, created in collaboration with Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon was described by Andrew Hugill as "dub meets microtonal tunings."[7]
Sevish
Genres
Experimental music
Years active
2005-present
Website
sevish.com
Since most instruments in the West are built to play the 12-tone equal tempered scale, Archibald turned to less common instruments and methods of composing microtonal music. He now uses an AXiS-49 hexagonal MIDI controller to play his microtonal music, along with various DAWs such as Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio (on a Linux system[8]), and Max/MSP.[1] The tuning systems he uses to create his music include 22-EDO, 15-EDO, 10-EDO, 13 limit just intonation, the Bohlen-Pierce scale, Pelog tuning, and many others.[4][9] Adam Hart of the University of Salford said that his compositions "do not indicate a desire to move away from the archetypes of established EDM genres, but rather to explore alternative tunings through familiar stylistic approaches".[4]
Archibald has expressed a desire to make microtonality more widely consumed by the public, creating multiple side projects to achieve this goal. He is the creator and host of Now&Xen, a podcast about microtonal music. In 2010 he founded his own record label, split-notes, which is focused on promoting music which uses microtonal scales, alternative tuning systems, and xenharmonics.[1][4]
3 Remixes with Acreil, Brendan Byrnes, and ZIA (2019)
STAFFcirc vol. 7 - Terra Octava with 16 other artists (2021)[13]
Maglonia with M F TroniX (2022)
Referencesedit
^ abcJohnson, Aaron. "Sevish Interview". untwelve.org. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
^"Biography - Sevish Music". sevish.com. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
^Wakabayashi, Hidekazu. "Sevish インタビュー Interview with Sevish". microtonaldiary.blog.fc2.com. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
^ abcdeHart, Adam (6 September 2016). "Microtonal Tunings in Electronic Dance Music: A Survey of Precedent and Potential". Contemporary Music Review. 35 (2): 242–262. doi:10.1080/07494467.2016.1221635. S2CID 193673867.
^Tremblay, Dæv (5 May 2015). "Review: Sevish – Rhythm And Xen". Can This Even Be Called Music?. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
^Tremblay, Dæv (19 June 2017). "Sevish - Harmony Hacker". Can This Even Be Called Music?. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
^"Making microtonal music on Linux computers". sevish.com. 13 October 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^Tremblay, Dæv (11 July 2019). "Sevish, Glacier, Louis-Vincent Hamel, Zeitgeber, John Zorn, and Jack Quartet". Can This Even Be Called Music?. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
^"Various Artists - Crack My Pitch Up - Microtonal music at split-notes". split-notes.com. 11 July 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
^"[FNet050] Various - 2MM2 : Faturenet Collective : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". archive.org. 21 July 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
^"Various Artists - Next Xen - Microtonal music at split-notes". split-notes.com. 6 February 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^"STAFFcirc vol. 7 - Terra Octava | STAFFcirc". bandcamp.com. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
External linksedit
Official website
split-notes website
April 13, 2024
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