FLMs 8 by Notehead
Notehead presents the 7 modes in odd time signatures, made with Fruity Loops Mobile on a phone in August 2020, save for vocoder played on a Microkorg. Pic is my pixel face.
The musical modes are the same old "Do-Re-Mi" scale with the "Do" shifted around, so it sounds completely different. We begin at the end on the 7th mode, Locrian, an evil unstable mode that hardly gets used, except by esoteric perverts. Next up is Ionian, which is the standard happy major sound we know and love; that's the "Doe" sung by Maria from The Sound of Music. Dorian is a sad minor variety, but not too sad, a bit jammy. Phrygian has an exotic Spanish or Middle-Eastern flavor and was made to be played on an acoustic guitar. Lydian is my personal favorite mode; think "The Simpsons" or better yet, MJ's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'." Mixolydian is the jam sandwich on rye, adored by bluesmen and funksters alike. Finally, Aeolian weeps pure minor sadness, close relative of the happy Ionian.
In the middle ages, some monk mixed up all the original Greek modes and copied them down wrong, so now it's a big confusing mess. In keeping with this spirit, I created some fake Hellenistic lore concerning the floating island Aeolia, where a young Aeolian lady falls in love with an Ionian man on the continent below. The two lovers find each other in midair and choose to alight onto Earth to live out their days. Such a tragic mistake!
Credits
electronicmusic, fruityloops, electronic, microkorg, videogame
