What
WE Do
We are an all-volunteer, nonprofit trade association whose mission is to make it easier for everyone to create music and art digitally. We nurture a global community of creative people who share a passion for music, art and innovation.
MIDI 2.0 Inspires
Innovation
The Circle Piano Comes to The Met: PianoArc at Musical Bodies
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Musical Bodies explores a powerful idea: the human body is itself a musical instrument, and musical instruments often reflect the shape, movement, identity, and imagination of the people who play them. For anyone interested in the future of music technology, one of the most striking objects in the exhibition […]
Jordan Rudess Brings MIT’s JAM_BOT to Life at the Berklee AI Music Summit
At the 2026 Berklee AI Music Summit, Jordan Rudess showed the audience what happens when one of the world’s most innovative keyboardists meets a real-time AI improvisation system built for the stage. The performance featured JAM_BOT, a collaborative music system developed through a partnership between Jordan Rudess and researchers at the MIT Media Lab. Rather […]
Emotional Magenta: Rob Jaret Wins the MIDI Association’s Most Accessible Product Award at the Music Hackspace Boston Hackathon
At the Music Hackspace Boston Hackathon in June 2026, composer and technologist Rob Jaret received the MIDI Association-sponsored Most Accessible Product award for Emotional Magenta, an innovative project that explores how facial expressions and emotional input can be used to create and shape music. Emotional Magenta is based on Google DeepMind’s Magenta Realtime 2 Collider, […]
NYU Tandon’s SynthAccess Project Points Toward a More Accessible Future for Synthesizers
Modern synthesizers are powerful, expressive instruments, but they are often built around visual feedback. Screens, menus, LEDs, soft buttons, and multi-function controls can make it difficult or impossible for blind and low-vision musicians to fully explore, program, and perform with electronic instruments independently. Researchers and artists connected with the SynthAccess project at New York University […]
