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Music Is For Everyone: MIDI MEETUP 2026 at the Kakehashi Foundation
The first MIDI MEETUP built entirely around music accessibility — Yamaha’s Anyone’s Piano, Sony’s Hug Drum, InstaChord, DropTone, REFLECT, and the MIDI-CI Profile for Assistive Text.
Today’s MIDI 2.0 Studio at Music China 2026
Part 5 of five. The MIDI Association at Music China, Shanghai, 28–31 October 2026.
The fourth face of the Lab 99 booth made a claim and then had to back it up, which is the best kind of trade show demo.
Today’s MIDI 2.0 Studio — 今天的 M…
MIDI 2.0 Innovative Products at Music China 2026: Sleight and MIDISketch
Part 4 of five. The MIDI Association at Music China, Shanghai, 28–31 October 2026.
One face of the Lab 99 booth was given to MIDI 2.0 Innovative Products: not the specification, and not the shipping studio next door, but the things people…
The MIDI Innovation Awards at Music China 2026
Part 3 of five. The MIDI Association at Music China, Shanghai, 28–31 October 2026.
One face of the Lab 99 booth was given over to the MIDI Innovation Awards: this year’s entries, a QR code to the full list, and — more to the point — several…
Music Accessibility and MIDI In Music Education at Music China 2026
Part 2 of five. The MIDI Association at Music China, Shanghai, 28–31 October 2026.
Two adjacent displays on the Lab 99 booth were given to the two sides of the same question: who gets to make music, and what is standing in the way.
One…
Hall N2, Music X and Lab 99: The MIDI Association at Music China 2026
Part 1 of five. Music China, Shanghai New International Expo Centre, 28–31 October 2026.
Music China returned to the Shanghai New International Expo Centre from 28 to 31 October 2026, and once again the centre of gravity for everyone working…
GearCon 2026: Accessible Instruments Take Center Stage at Tileyard London
Photos courtesy of Kate Rounding and zen (RIX Inclusive Institute)
Wrapping up another fantastic year of GearCon, London’s favourite hands-on music gear revue, where musical devices from around the world assemble at Tileyard for a weekend of…
Making music technology more accessible: takeaways from ADCx Gather 2026
October 19, 2026
Jay Pocknell
Jay Pocknell from Sound Without Sight posted an article on Sound Without Sight about the the Accessibility meetup at ADC-X.
From accessible instruments and screen reader friendly plug-ins to…
Why 12 Notes?
By Eamon McGinn and Sergey Alexeev
MIDI note number 60 is middle C. Number 61 is C-sharp, 62 is D, and 72 is C an octave higher. The ordinary MIDI note map mirrors the piano keyboard, carrying centuries of Western musical practice into the…
MIDI 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, LED strips, DMX fixtures, 3D worlds.
We went back through every…
Jordan 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 Hall, Rudess will improvise live with jam_bot — an AI model trained on…
Public 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 is includes hardware and software, shipping products…
Two 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 both, the more I’ve noticed how much of this story runs through my own hometown, and…
From 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 and partially sighted musicians, audio engineers, and industry…
Music 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 MIDI Association’s Music Accessibility Standard…
MIDI 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 Implementation Guide (M2-126-IG).
For…
Assistive 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. Now, MIDI may also be able to help connect more musicians to the information they need to create, perform, and produce…
AES 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.
Held online on July 9-10, 2026, the two-day event…
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…
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…
IASIG Launches New Audio Education Working Group to Strengthen Pathways Into Game Audio
The MIDI Association welcomes the launch of the Interactive Audio Special Interest Group’s new Audio Education Working Group and encourages educators, students, and industry professionals to participate in the growing conversation around music…