Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Black MIDIs

There are now MIDI files that are so big, the music can't be played.

MIDI is a standardized way that digital sources (computers, electronic keyboards, digitized musical scores, musical instruments/voice speaking through a digital controller, or other MIDIs, etc.) can create music through a synthesizer, without musicians playing any instruments, although MIDI-controlled electronic music can be mixed together with living musicians.

Here's a link to a post about black MIDIs, where the notes grow so thick, it creates a black visual pattern or dense cloud on the screen! Sometimes it is composed of Millions of notes!  Composers may try to surpass each other in ways that don't have much to do with music!
  1. Maximizing the size of the download (such as creating a terabyte file - a billion billions) or
  2. Boasting about the fact that their computers are so grand that they are able to play the huge file they created!
Follow this link to try Jingle Bells and the descriptive video at the top:
Black MIDI from AUX music

Black MIDI Songs will kill your brain and your computer (Well, it's not actually that bad!)
http://m.aux.tv/news/62071-black-midi-songs-will-kill-your-brain-and-your-computer