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The MIDI Association

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The MIDI AssociationIndustryMIDI and the Visual Stage: The State of MIDI Control of Video and Graphics MIDI was designed to contol notes between synthesziers in 1983. Four decades on, a sizeable slice of what it actually controls is light — video clips, camera feeds, shaders…

September 28

The MIDI AssociationIndustryJordan Rudess + jam_bot at MIT October 3 On Saturday, October 3, 2026, Jordan Rudess brings a project that MIDI.org readers have been following for two years to its biggest stage yet. At MIT’s Thomas Tull Concert…

September 26

The MIDI AssociationIndustryPublic Voting for the 2026 MIDI Innovation Awards Closes Sept. 22 Voting runs September 8–22, 2026. The floor is yours. Public voting for the 2026 MIDI Innovation Awards runs from Tuesday 8 September through Tuesday 22 September. This year’s field…

September 8

The MIDI AssociationIndustryTwo Boards, One Story: Preserving Alan Pearlman’s Legacy — And Why This Fall Matters I sit on two boards that don’t, at first glance, look like they belong together: the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation and the MIDI Association. The longer I serve on…

September 3

The MIDI AssociationIndustryFrom the Community: Accessibility Resources and Insights from Sound Without Sight Accessibility in music technology moves fastest when the people building it are also the people using it. That’s the idea behind Sound Without Sight, a community hub for blind…

August 28

The MIDI AssociationIndustryMusic Accessibility SIG holds Assistive Text Session MIDI has always been about connection. For more than four decades it has been the shared language that lets instruments, computers, controllers, and creative software understand one another. The…

July 30

The MIDI AssociationIndustryMIDI Association and AMEI Release the Piano Profile and Implementation Guide The MIDI Association and the Association of Musical Electronics Industry (AMEI) have released the MIDI-CI Profile for Piano (Document M2-126-UM, Version 1.0), together with its companion…

July 24

The MIDI AssociationIndustryAssistive Text in MIDI: A New Path Toward More Accessible Music Technology Music technology has always been about connection. MIDI connects instruments, computers, controllers, apps, and creative ideas.

July 16

The MIDI AssociationIndustryAES Accessibility Summit Highlights Growing Momentum for Inclusive Audio and MIDI Innovation The Audio Engineering Society’s inaugural Accessibility in Audio Summit demonstrated just how quickly accessibility is becoming one of the most important conversations in professional audio.

July 11