{"id":630,"date":"2015-10-08T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5722.temp.domains\/~audioor1\/black-midi\/"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:08:00","slug":"black-midi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioordeal.co.uk\/black-midi\/","title":{"rendered":"Black MIDI"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you spend a lot of time on the internet, you end up seeing a lot of strange things. Very occasionally, if enough time is spent, you will find strange combined with pure genius. In this case I am referring to Black MIDI.<\/p>\n

Psychedelic music can be said to be influenced by psychotropic chemicals and the music reflects it, Black MIDI on the other hand sounds like it is influenced by Ritalin. Copious amounts of Ritalin.<\/p>\n

So what is it? Well imagine you are on your computer, making some music. You have a nice chord progression going, maybe add a bit of melody, and start adding a bit of harmony. Now imagine every amphetamine in the planet has just been metabolised in your brain, you realise that harmony would go nice with another nine million notes and there you have it.<\/p>\n

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for those of you who don’t read music, this is not normal.<\/i><\/div>\n

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Black MIDI essentially crams as many notes in as possible while trying to maintain a good sound. This is very difficult to do as you can imagine and so it is a real skill to make such music sound good.<\/div>\n
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As a genre, it is very much now a nerd-off of the most insane proportions. Each song maker wants to make the song with the most notes as well as the prettiest aesthetics with regards to the MIDI sequencing panel. I’ll show you what I mean in the video below.<\/div>\n
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