![]() My first Black MIDI was the opening theme of the anime, Fushigi Yuugi, "For My Loved One." It only consisted of about 102,916 notes in under a minute and 30 seconds. How did you get started making Black MIDI? I believe all that came from the idea of these "bullet hell" games. The MIDI part is MIDI, nothing special about it. The term "Black MIDI" was derived from a sheet music being "blacked out" by tons of notes. It actually falls under a remix category, rather than of electronic music. TheTrustedComputer: Black MIDI has been around since 2009. THUMP: What do you think Black MIDI is exactly? Through a series of YouTube messages, comments, and eventually email, TTC answered our burning questions about Black MIDI, taught us the basics for making a Black MIDI tune, and even made us an exclusive cut for the holiday season. His wiki is a Black MIDI bible-your source for Black MIDI everything, from leaderboards of tunes ranked by MIDI note count (the currently leader clocks in at 280 billion notes) to links to other Black MIDI champions like TheSuperMarioBros2, Gingeas, and RetroUniversalHT. Though he asked us not to reveal his full name, we do know that the 15-year-old Californian's leading video has over 1,361,551 views at the time of publication. But they're all quite active on YouTube, so I was able to contact TheTrustedComputer, aka TTC, one of Black MIDI's reigning kings and the moderator of The Impossible Music wiki. Tracking down the young note-wizards for an interview has proven difficult, because none of them have official websites with email contacts listed. There's so much visual info happening that your computer is likely to choke and sputter unless you've spent a couple Gs on a high-end graphics card. Tunes cram in "crash" notes-hyper-stutters where every key on the "piano" is "playing" thousands of times a second. ![]() Videos are appearing with mesmerizing patterns of criss-crossing notes representing insane scales flipping back and forth in front of your eyes. And once young dudes start competing in nerdiness, you know it's going to end up on YouTube. Many are based on the music from video games and cartoons, thanks to a healthy crossover in interest between blackers, anime heads and gamers. First it was 100K, then 500K, then a million-now upwards of five million notes are common. The "blackers" first cropped up in Japan in 2009, sharing videos on the Japanese video site Nico Nico Douga)Īccording to the Black MIDI Wiki page, the movement first spread to Korea and China, and in 2012 to the United States and Europe.īlackers across the globe, many of them teens and preteens, are embroiled in a ferocious game of one-upsmanship, battling to see how many notes they can cram into a single composition.
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