Sevish Music

Sevish and benyamind's collaboration "Ancient Love" is a cinematic fantasy jungle soundscape with deep electronic pulses and cosmic xenharmonic harmonies. A true hybrid production which fuses the soul and style of both artists. With two minds, two DAWs and many many online sessions, we spent a long time making sure it was right.

This ambient track was written during my time in Beijing. It was done alongside Never Coming Home. These two tracks share some similarities, including the tuning. Disorient has two field recordings, one is the beach at Qingdao, Shandong Province. The other is outside my apartment block in Chongwenmen, Beijing.

AKA Gleam but it's in 4/4 (and 22ed2). Just a simple loop that repeats 3 times but I hope you will enjoy anyway.

Morphable has a mix of styles going on, jungle, techno, house, others. And a mix of tunings, some equal and some rational intonation. I enjoy making sounds like these - now feels like a good time to do a classic Sevish-ish sounding album before getting deep into some future experimental cycle. My approach to 26ed2 in Yeah Groove was to have all 26 notes available and not think in terms of subsets. It's similar to how I work in 22ed2 now. Some other tricks from 22ed2 are also available in 26ed2, such as having those 4:5:6:7:9:11 chords. Of course there are some differences too.

Smooth jungle / just intonation Album: Morphable by Sevish (5th August 2022) Track: Everyone

Microtonal techno / 11-tone equal temperament The Mad Mile is track 1 from my new album Morphable. Named after a one mile stretch of a local main road which briefly goes up to the national speed limit. A favourite spot for the local boy racers. I wanted this track to capture that kind of intensity. The bassline here is the first thing I've recorded off my Korg Monologue. The chords are 4:7:9:11 in parallel harmony. Yes that bridge really does use scale LLsLLLs in 11ed2.

Chill electronic from the album Morphable. Tuning is 11/10, 6/5, 27/20, 3/2 99 here means the soft ice cream cone with a chocolate flake in it. Eating one of these at the beach, in rain or shine, is plenty nostalgic for me.

Drum and bass / 22 tone equal temperament Album: Morphable

Launchin and morphin in 53 tone equal temperament. Most of the 53 notes were used here, I think. No particular subset was used so all 53 were available on the piano roll. I tried to use plenty of descending 1\53 steps in the voice leading. Since there are only 128 MIDI notes it was tricky for any one instrument to range much beyond 2 octaves. I simply tuned the bass 2 octaves down and the lead 1 octave up, then kept each instrument within its range.

Bohlen-Pierce bass music Obviously a little ZIA inspired. Weirdly this is a track I started during the Bubble creative cycle, but I never got it over the line and I thought the pacing of the track didn't serve that album well. But I finished it during the Morphable cycle and think it fits in nicely. The tuning here is 13ed3 with some octave transpositions in the bass. I don't think I need to say much about this approach as it's been mentioned a lot in the past. The 13ed3 plus octaves thing is my preferred approach to BP. But one of these days I'm tempted to try a track in the lambda scale of BP without any modulation or octave transpositions. Just might be fun.

Tritavium from the album Morphable by Sevish 9/8, 5/4, 11/8, 3/2, 5/3, 7/4, 2/1, 9/4, 5/2, 11/4, 3/1

Microtonal eurobeat / I don't even care / 22-tone equal temperament https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/mor... Just having fun with this one! Hope you like a bit of cheese. I double dare you to play it when you're on aux duty. Ahhhh Some people were asking why Gleam (Loungin Remix) isn't on streaming services. Well it's coming November on Spotify/Apple/etc. If you're following me there you wouldn't be able to miss it. Been working on some new sounds recently, tunings I've never used before. My intention right now isn't to save it all for an album. Instead I want to try and get new stuff out more frequently. Appreciate any feedback while I try new things.