The 3 main component of the projects are:ġ. It can also be seen as truly allowing the traditional music to evolve in line with the times we’re living in. I wish to reverse this narrowing of the gene pool by drawing attention to this MIDI library as a tool of reinvention and expansive creativity. The electronic productions often sample the same past or contemporary greats and therefore buy into paying homage and icon worship, restricting movement out of the past and enforcing a kind of sonic tyrannical dogma that we’ve already come to the end of innovation and can only now reference the past ad infinitum. I’ve been active in what could be described as electro-folk for around 7 years now and in this world we’re usually dealing with varying contemporary (or not so) versions of trad-folk in a modern clubbing context. : At a basic level, the MIDI East project is dealing with an online library of around 9000 midi files of mostly turkish/east euro traditional music. Have some tasters and read the interview recently did via mail exchange. The mesmerizing Turkish cumbia that makes part of the first MIDI East project EP was released in May 28.
The project proposed by Brian May/DJ Delay is an example of the sonic and expressive breadth that can be attained by working from Middle-Eastern music MIDI files.
The MIDI East project not only takes advantage of the new ways in which music is distributed but also involves the use of an «old» technology (MIDI) to provide music makers with a novel, shared system of music creation.
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