Black MIDI

>>> http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/

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a group of musicians who use MIDI files (which store musical notes and timings, not unlike player piano rolls) to create compositions that feature staggering numbers of notes.

discuss imo

I need more time to process this information.

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^ lol

BT probably has that many stutter edits in every second of every song he does now and yet he still hasn't made anything of musical value

This is cooler:

black midi owes their whole career to my song 16-bit opacity which was a 5megabyte midi file i made for an album in 1997 by putting as much data into it as possible. http://www.discogs.com/Fluorescent-Grey-Untitled/release/3325339

BTW, Arne Nordheim was writing "weaving" structures for player piano 20 years ago. Jump to 5:55 ish:

  On 9/24/2013 at 10:11 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

black midi owes their whole career to my song 16-bit opacity which was a 5megabyte midi file i made for an album in 1997 by putting as much data into it as possible. http://www.discogs.com/Fluorescent-Grey-Untitled/release/3325339

oh snap! nice

  On 9/25/2013 at 1:53 AM, phling said:

 

  On 9/24/2013 at 10:11 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

black midi owes their whole career to my song 16-bit opacity which was a 5megabyte midi file i made for an album in 1997 by putting as much data into it as possible. http://www.discogs.com/Fluorescent-Grey-Untitled/release/3325339

 

oh snap! nice

 

that's fucking awesome John

also, for once, did "black" music copy a white guy?

  On 9/24/2013 at 10:03 PM, psn said:

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Whoa that is cool.

I find certain YTP and meme remixes far more interesting:

http://youtu.be/6ISA9E6Cc84

Why are they called "Black Midi". Isn't "African American Midi" a little more polite?

  On 9/25/2013 at 2:35 AM, StephenG said:

Why are they called "Black Midi". Isn't "African American Midi" a little more polite?

midi and blues

reminds me of dan deacon