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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.
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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.
Why did they do it?
That said, it is possible that this could prevent Black Midi (the genre) from becoming a fad, and thus make the "scene" healthier. Sort of like a password to get into the club.
Black Midi is also the name of a rather excellent band: https://bmblackmidi.com/
Some (most?) of the black midi scores do cheat a bit. They have bajillions of notes but most of the notes are not audible. Their presence gives cool visual effects (either static if you decide to print it out as classic music notation or dynamic when an app plays the tune) and that's it. Edit: they typically still have enough audible notes to make it sound like a dozen clones of Chopin played together.
Tau ("the Song with 6.28318 Million Notes") is an extreme example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0gyQMJHQ78 I like the "no arts" version that removes silent notes, as it makes it more enjoyable (for me!) to follow what's happening : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcfmPZVqVtw However, one other interesting aspect of a song like Tau is the "performance" of playing these note-heavy midis. You are effectively record…
Black Midi is also the name of a rather excellent band: https://bmblackmidi.com/
Just did my good deed for the day and changed "piano cards" to "piano rolls." I'm guessing this article was written by a programmer. I have to admit I like the idea of old school programmers filling out punch cards and feeding them into a piano!
> Though the two are unrelated in origin, the concept of impossible piano existed long before black MIDI, manifesting itself within Conlon Nancarrow's work involving player pianos where he punched holes in piano cards , creating extremely complex musical compositions in the same impossible, unplayable spirit of black MIDI Just did my good deed for the day and changed "piano cards" to "piano rolls." I'm guessing this…
Edit: some discussion here https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/7536/did-any-playe...
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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?