Apr 6, 2017
Black MIDI is a musical art form seemingly inspired by bullet hell shmups, black faxes, and the spirit of creative mischief. The style takes its name from the visual effect of inputting literally millions of notes into a MIDI sequencer/piano roll. In extreme(?) examples, the output is so dense that it will exhaust the memory of modern GPUs. File sizes can reach into the terabyte range.
The genre has an early spiritual ancestor in Conlon Nancarrow, an American expatriate/troll who composed player piano music in physics-violating irrational meters (e.g. 1/√2).