#MakeMusicWithMIDI on June 21 Make Music Day
June 21 is International Make Music Day.
We are asking everyone to help us create a worldwide day of celebration of making music with MIDI by:
- Creating some music with MIDI
- Uploading it to your social media channels with the hashtag -#MakeMusicWithMIDI
Be creative and share your passion for making music with MIDI to the whole world!
Do we take music (and MIDI) for granted?
John Harrison, the American television and film director, screenwriter, musician, composer and actor has had an interesting career in both music and movies. He was the bass player for Roy Buchanan who Eric Clapton dubbed “the best guitarist in the world”.
John is best known for his film collaborations with George A. Romero (the “Father of the Zombie Film”), and for writing-directing the 2000 television miniseries adaptation of Dune.
Years ago, John was invited to watch a screening of a movie, but it was before the soundtrack had been added. He expressed surprised that the movie was so bad because the “up and coming” director was pretty well known.
Specifically he mentioned one scene that seemed to go on forever because it was just a kid on a bicycle.
Several weeks later, he watched Steven Spielberg’s film “ET” with the John Williams score and raved about it.
Even though he was a professional musician, a film composer and a Hollywood director, he had managed to take for granted the impact of music on the pacing a film.
Imagine a day without Music
Did you ever imagine what a day without music would be like?
Without the emotional underpinnings of music scores, scenes in movies would seem too long and without “stingers”, the transitions between segments in TV shows would be abrupt and lack continuity.
Music is what paces our lives and moves us through each day.
A day without music would be unbearably because we have gotten so used to music being everywhere all the time.
A Day Without MIDI
To be honest, sometimes there are days where as The MIDI Association, we wish we had a big switch to turn MIDI off all over the world.
MIDI is like air. It’s free and it’s everywhere so people take it for granted.
But as a modern musician (just like air) try to live without it.
If there was a day without MIDI, every Broadway show, every contemporary music concert, and most of the music in games, movies and on TV would simply disappear!