Sevish Music

Sevish - Ask Yourself (microtonal music) (2017x3)

: 13, 2017

Ask Yourself uses an unknown tuning that was shared by someone on one of the online xen groups, which was titled SEMAPHORE but seems to have nothing to do with semaphore temperament. My approach was to use my ears, starting by identifying some chords that worked, sequencing those, and then playing melodies over the top of that. Kinda unrelated, but I sometimes perform short, textural, improvised pieces just for fun. I usually forget about these experiments and rediscover the recordings at a later time. In this track, I sampled a past experiment that was performed in Scott Dakota’s supermariner tuning. This microtonal tuning creates a kind of synchronised beating that reveals itself best when used in long-form drone or ambient works. In this case, the beat is too busy and you can’t hear the beating effect, but I still found that supermariner makes an interesting contrast against "semaphore".