Sevish Music

Liquid drum and bass using microtonal scales. In this case, the music is written in the Blackwood decatonic mode of 20-tone equal temperament. This is a scale that contains 10 notes, but those 10 notes pack in a whopping 5 major and 5 minor chords. Any note can be the root notes of a consonant triad, and any note can easily be set up as the tonic while modulating. It's a face melting experience to write in this tuning so you should definitely do it now. Or just listen to Enterprise. The middle section has tuned percussion that play a Shepard-tone esque musical progression. It continues to descend seemingly forever without reaching a tonal center. This is only possible because of the Blackwood decatonic scale!

Ambrosia is a breakbeat track using a microtonal scale called 22-tone equal temperament (22-EDO). My fave scale. Human Astronomy is a mini-album dedicated to London (I moved away to Leicester at the time of release). Ambrosia has harp-like piano tinklings and some crunchy beats. It's a good example of the new tonalities possible in microtonal music.

From Human Astronomy. Four different microtonal scales are used - polytonal microtonal. 12-tet mixed with 22-tet mixed with Carlos Beta mixed with an 11-limit nonoctave JI MOS scale. A beastly combination which is not "out of tune" but "in tune differently".

A short piece of atmospheric, ambient music written in the microtonal scale "Beta" found by Wendy Carlos, set to clips from a public domain film about Nikola Tesla. Dreaming Enhasa is from my 2010 EP 'Human Astronomy'. The whole EP uses microtonal scales that allow for new moods, melodies and harmonies.

Track 1 from Subversio by Jacky Ligon, Tony Dubshot and Sevish -- http://www.dubbhism.com/2011/12/out-n... This drum and bass tune uses a just intonation scale with stretched octaves. Jacky made the scale, and Sevish made the song!