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Re: Black MIDI

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Post by davidthewatson »

Sniffnoy wrote: post #8
davidthewatson wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely you’re referring to the black page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Page I was surprised the Wikipedia page didn’t link to it but perhaps Zappa wasn’t big in Japan. It is a historically significant work for its “statistical density” to quote Zappa speaking about the piece.

The page does link to it?

What I see is that the black midi page links to Zappa not to Zappa’s work titled the black page. I’m not sure of the relationship between Zappa and nancarrow?

Re: Black MIDI

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Post by jwhiles »

j4mie wrote: post #5

Black Midi is also the name of a rather excellent band: https://bmblackmidi.com/

Their naming is quite inspirational. If I ever start a popular band I will also try to make some existing thing completely un-googleable. The band Franz Ferdinand also tried this and seem to have failed.

Re: Black MIDI

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Post by baisq »

jwhiles wrote: post #12
j4mie wrote: post #5

Black Midi is also the name of a rather excellent band: https://bmblackmidi.com/

Their naming is quite inspirational. If I ever start a popular band I will also try to make some existing thing completely un-googleable. The band Franz Ferdinand also tried this and seem to have failed.

It doesn't seem ungoogleable to me: if you google "black midi" all you find is that band.

Re: Black MIDI

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Post by jmillikin »

nathell wrote: post #13

Reminds me of John Stump’s “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz”, with an insanely hilarious score.

Live performance (starts around 3:45): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCgT94A7WgI

Amusingly, YouTube is full of videos that claim to be "Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz" but are in fact Marasy's performance[0] of a Cool&Create arrangement of U.N. Owen, which (as mentioned in the article) was the first work to be arranged as Black MIDI.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEQ7XzBnByU

Re: Black MIDI

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Post by stedaniels »

baisq wrote: post #15
jwhiles wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their naming is quite inspirational. If I ever start a popular band I will also try to make some existing thing completely un-googleable. The band Franz Ferdinand also tried this and seem to have failed.

It doesn't seem ungoogleable to me: if you google "black midi" all you find is that band.

You've misinterpreted the comment, this is exactly what they mean. The recent band, has made the term ungoogleable.

Re: Black MIDI

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Post by [deleted] »

baisq wrote: post #15
jwhiles wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their naming is quite inspirational. If I ever start a popular band I will also try to make some existing thing completely un-googleable. The band Franz Ferdinand also tried this and seem to have failed.

It doesn't seem ungoogleable to me: if you google "black midi" all you find is that band.

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Re: Black MIDI

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Post by mlatu »

virgulino wrote: post #3

Related, how black MIDI is predated by a classical composer on self-playing pianos: Steampunk black MIDI - The insane music of Conlon Nancarrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2reuQyLoZM

thanks for this, really interesting
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