For more than a century, electronics have opened up new possibilities for making and controlling music. From the Theremin and electric guitar to modern synthesizers, electronic instruments have continually pushed music in new directions. In the 1980s, MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) took this a step further, providing a versatile standard for digital music devices to communicate and control one another that is still in use today. Join presenter — and musical experimenter — Jeremy Cook to learn how you can put MIDI to work in your own musical automation experiments.
Jeremy Cook is a freelance tech journalist who spent over a decade in manufacturing automation. In conjunction with writing, he loves to experiment with electronics and creative fabrication, using those skills to create everything from