Sevish
Sean Archibald, also known as Sevish, is an electronic music composer. He is mainly known for his drum'n'bass tracks, following his motto "microtonal music with a beat", but also ambient tracks and everything in between. He also started several projects related to the promotion of microtonal music. He described and named the technique of variplaning.
Projects
In 2010, Sevish founded the digital record label split-notes, dedicated to "microtonal music with a beat".
Since 2014, he runs a blog on his website where he posts about various subjects mostly related to microtonal music, including a few theory and software tutorials. He also produces similar content on his YouTube and Twitch channels.
Since 2017, he is the main developer of Scale Workshop, a web app for microtonal scale design and playback.
In 2018, he cocreated the podcast Now&Xen, which he cohosted for some time with Stephen Weigel.
Discography
Microtonal releases
- Golden Hour (2010)
- Human Astronomy (2010)
- Sean but not Heard (2012)
- Rhythm and Xen (2015)
- MK-SUPERDUPER (2016)
- Harmony Hacker (2017)
- 3 Remixes (2019)
- Horixens (2019)
- Odds and Ends (2020)
- Bubble (2021)
- Re-Tuned (2021)
- Formless Shadows (2021)
- Morphable (2022)
- Murmurations (2023)
- Big Sway (2023)
- One With the Fractal (2025)
12edo releases
- Sevish EP (2005)
- Crowded Images (2008)
- Exposure EP (2009)
- day:dot EP (2013)
Microtonal collaborations
| Year | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | "Burning Pine" | Crack My Pitch Up (Various artists) |
| 2011 | "Trapped in a Cycle" | 2 Minute Masterpieces (Various artists) |
| "Waveblender" | Subversio (Sevish, Jacky Ligon & Tony Dubshot) | |
| "Mashroon" | ||
| "Xenomic" | ||
| 2013 | "Chattering Circuits" | 2 Minute Masterpieces 2 (Various artists) |
| 2014 | "Twisted Flax" | 23 (Jacky Ligon, Sevish & Tony Dubshot) |
| 2016 | "Narrative Wars" | Next Xen (Various artists) |
| 2019 | "Operator (Sevish Remix)" | 3 Remixes (Brendan Byrnes, acreil, ZIA & Sevish) |
| "archicembalo antidiagonal (Sevish Remix)" | ||
| "Greater Good (Sevish Remix)" | ||
| "Disorient" | Possible Worlds Vol. 4 (Various artists) | |
| 2021 | "Fuschiamarine" | STAFFcirc vol. 7 - Terra Octava (Various artists) |
| 2022 | "Ancient Love" | Single (Sevish & benyamind) |
| "Maglonia (Remix)" | Single (M F Tronix & Sevish) |