Bonk Wave is an experimental omni-genre or style-agnostic genre.
Bonk Wave as music and art is open to everybody at every level of experience. Bonk Wave is an open and inclusive community, promoting freedom of artistic expression [1].
The term Bonk Wave was first coined on social media on 22 July 2023 [2].
Bonk Wave music has been released as a cooperative exercise of a diverse group of independent musicians who have formed the label Bonk Knob Records on Bandcamp [3].
Discography
editStudio albums
- Not What I Call Bonk Wave - Volume 001 (August 2023)
- Not What I Call Bonk Wave - Volume 002 (December 2023)
- We Wish You A Merry Bonkmas (December 2023)
- Not Bonk What I Call Wave: Remixes (May 2024)
- Happy Bonk Day (July 2024)
- Not What I Call Bonk Wave - Volume 003 (late 2024)
Modern modes
editModern Western modes use the same set of notes as the major scale, in the same order, but starting from one of its seven degrees in turn as a tonic, and so present a different sequence of whole and half steps. With the interval sequence of the major scale being W–W–H–W–W–W–H, where "W" means a whole tone (whole step) and "H" means a semitone (half step), it is thus possible to generate the following modes:[4]
Mode | Tonic relative to major scale |
Interval sequence | Example |
---|---|---|---|
Ionian, AKA "Major" | I | W–W–H–W–W–W–H | C–D–E–F–G–A–B–C |
Dorian | ii | W–H–W–W–W–H–W | D–E–F–G–A–B–C–D |
Phrygian | iii | H–W–W–W–H–W–W | E–F–G–A–B–C–D–E |
Lydian | IV | W–W–W–H–W–W–H | F–G–A–B–C–D–E–F |
Mixolydian | V | W–W–H–W–W–H–W | G–A–B–C–D–E–F–G |
Aeolian, AKA "Minor" | vi | W–H–W–W–H–W–W | A–B–C–D–E–F–G–A |
Locrian | viiø | H–W–W–H–W–W–W | B–C–D–E–F–G–A–B |
For the sake of simplicity, the examples shown above are formed by natural notes (also called "white notes", as they can be played using the white keys of a piano keyboard). However, any transposition of each of these scales is a valid example of the corresponding mode. In other words, transposition preserves mode.[5]