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Black MIDI

Learned something new today and am fascinated by it. From Chill:

What is Black MIDI?
Black MIDI is a micro genre in music. It�s created using Musical Instrument Digital Interface and it�s main feature is a giant note density (sometimes this term is applied only to MIDI tracks with 1M+ note count). It is totally impossible to read it in modern musical notation form, because music sheets look almost black. Just imagine that the longest notes are 32d; some songs contain millions of abnormally short notes: sure, this music cannot be perceived normally. Usually black MIDI tracks are blackened MIDI remixes but also there are original black MIDI songs. Authors of remixes are called �blackers�, usually MIDI tracks are created by �MIDI crews� � groups of blackers.

Here is an example -- 4.6 million discrete notes in 3:44: Posted by DaveH at March 12, 2014 3:45 PM