Murkwood

Murkwood is the band I play in. We recently started gigging, and our fucking facebook fanbase is starting to grow, so I figured it's time I posted up some shit about us...
This is kind of our vibe... call me a complete knob, but I have no idea how to describe our sound. It's like a thousand angry mimes falling down a mineshaft filled with candy-floss. With a light sprinkling of Latino porn on mute. C'mon, just out of the corner of your eye... Is that willow weeping?

The freak falling all over himself below is Austen. He's basically insane, but he writes a lot of our shit so we can't admit him.

Loud guy below is our vocalist Ben. He's a vocalist in every sense of the word. Luckily he can sing too... :P
Heavy concentration below by Levi, troubled beat boy genius..
And below we have Stef. Stef got bust with pot recently and has to attend Narc Anon meetings. Ha ha. Sorry Stef. Synth king!
And the guy who forgot to shave is me. Look how vainy my arm is.
(Photos courtesy of Sibs La Mere. Shot bruv. )


We're playing a few gigs in the near future. Come decide for yourself how we sound...

Black Dahlia, Boksburg this Sat, 23rd Oct.

The Tanz Cafe Jam Showcase Launch Show on the 3rd Nov.

And Woofstock on the 6th Nov.

Or just listen to the demo-type-thing on our fucking facebook page.

Peace

Saturday at Belavista Lounge

You should keep that in mind

Great track, cool vid...

Visualising the modes... Lydian

This is where you can see how subtle the differences between the musical modes can be. The Lydian mode scale illustrated below is almost identical to the 1st posted Ionian (natural major scale), except that the 4th interval (dotted green wave) is augmented (or a semi-tone sharper), resulting in a sound altogether unique.
The next on my list is the Mixolydian, which is also only very subtly different from the natural major. How reluctant the human mind can be to grasp subtlety. We're all 99.9% genetically identical, 0.01% different. Yet that 0.01% difference makes up probably 99% of our perception of each other. No wonder we're all crazy.

Visualising the modes... Phrygian

Four weeks later, and one tone up from the Dorian, I finally bring you the the Phrygian, which is essentially a natural minor with a flat 2nd (orange):

Sometime in the near future I will bring the Lydian.

This is Africa time.

Visualising the modes... Dorian

So I pried myself away from the B-string just long enough to bring you the Dorian mode. The Dorian represents a minor scale with a regular 6th interval.

You can see in this visual of the wave forms, compared to the previous Ionian/major scale, that the 3rd (yellow) and 7th (crimson) intervals are a semi-tone flatter, or at least dotted. The 6th (violet) is the same.

If you played all the white notes on a hypothetical piano in your mind, using D as your root, this is (in some strange sense) what you'd play:

If you move up the white keys and root on the E, you'll be in the Phrygian mode, pronounced much like the offspring of a fridge and a pigeon. Until then...

Happy Friday! I love the rain :) And Other Truths is arriving today. Tears of joy.

Visualising the modes... Ionian

After the first music visual I posted recently, I thought I should clean up and expand the concept a little. I figured the best way to expand might be to try to distinguish the modes. So I reformatted the waves slightly, and started by defining the Ionian, which is the mode that represents the basic major scale. If the red lines in the diagram are 'C' then the spectrum between them represents the rest of the white keys on a piano (D orange to B crimson).


Music is happiness. The Dorian coming soon...

Music to your eyes...

I've been under the influence of music quite a bit lately. This is my first attempt to visualise it. Hope it's not completely wrong. Looks pretty either way :)