It was uploaded to the Japanese video-sharing site Nico Nico Douga in 2009, and public awareness of Black MIDI started to spread from Japan to China and Korea in the following two years. Owen Was Her?", an extra boss theme from the Touhou Project shooter video game The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. īlack MIDI was first employed in Shirasagi Yukki at Kuro Yuki Gohan's rendition of "U.N. Frank Zappa also wrote a dense and extremely difficult composition called " The Black Page". Another precursor to black MIDI is Circus Galop, a player piano composition written by Canadian virtuoso Marc-Andre Hamelin, featuring complex and impossible arrangement with up to 21 notes played simultaneously. Though the two are unrelated in origin, the concept of impossible piano existed long before black MIDI, manifesting itself for example within Conlon Nancarrow's work involving player pianos, in which he punched holes in piano rolls, creating extremely complex musical compositions in the same impossible, unplayable spirit of black MIDI. However, there are no specific criteria of what is considered "black" as a result, pinpointing the exact origin of black MIDI is impossible. People who make black MIDIs are known as blackers. Large numbers of notes are layered in close proximity to one another, meaning that a traditional musical score appears almost completely black - hence the name "Black MIDI"īlack MIDI is a music genre consisting of compositions that use MIDI files to create a song or a remix containing a large number of notes.
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