As much fun as the black MIDI is, you should also check out the music of Conlon Nancarrow, who was mentioned prominently at the beginning of the article. Unlike

As much fun as the black MIDI is, you should also check out the music of Conlon Nancarrow, who was mentioned prominently at the beginning of the article. Unlike black MIDI, which tends strongly to the metronomic behavior of drum machines and modern computerized music, Nancarrow's music swings. His heart wasn't in 8 bit video game sounds, but rather in 20th century avant-garde classical and jazz. The closest tonal reference for most people would be certain kinds of soundtrack music, especially older mystery movies and kaiju films from Japan. But it's more musically interesting, and more human, than the relatively simplistic sounds of black MIDI. Dig it, man.