Main entry:

Diduck, Ryan Alexander, author.

Title & Author:

Mad skills : MIDI and music technology in the twentieth century / Ryan Alexander Diduck ; foreword by Georgina Born.

Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Repeater, 2018.

Description:

1 online resource

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

A cultural history of MIDI (the Musical Instrument Digital Interface), one of the most revolutionary and transformative technologies in the history of music. A history of electronic music that goes way beyond the Moog. Part rigorous history, part insightful commentary, and part memoir, Mad Skills tells the story behind MIDI, aka the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, through the twentieth century's kaleidoscopic lens. Guiding us across one hundred years of musical instruments, and the music made with them, Mad Skills recounts the technical and creative innovations that led to the making of the most vital, long-standing, ubiquitous, and yet invisible music technology of our time.

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ISBN:

9781910924778 (electronic bk.)
1910924776 (electronic bk.)
1910924768
9781910924761

Subject:

MIDI (Standard) History 20th century.
Computer music.
Computer composition (Music)
Music Data processing.
MIDI (Norme) Histoire 20e siècle.
Composition (Musique) par ordinateur.
Musique Informatique.
MUSIC History & Criticism.
MUSIC Musical Instruments General.
MUSIC Printed Music Band & Orchestra.
MIDI (Standard)

Form/genre:

History