Mad skills
Subtitle: MIDI and music technology in the twentieth century
By: Ryan Alexander Diduck ; foreward by Georgina Born
Contributors: Born, Georgina, writer of foreword
Publisher: Repeater
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781910924761
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Music; Data processing; Computer music; MIDI (Standard); Computer composition (Music); History
Description: "Part rigorous history and part insightful commentary, Mad Skills tells the story behind MIDI, aka the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, through the twenthieth 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"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-230).