The MIDI In Music Education Special Interest Group (MIME)
The MIDI Association’s MIDI In Music Education Special Interest Group serves to allow artists, researchers, and other practitioners in the music creation and production community to interact directly with MIDI Association companies, participate in MIDI Association projects, access MIDI specification under development and discuss issues on the MIDI Association’s private corporate forum related to MIDI In Music Education.
Fostering discussion and collaboration, the MIME Special Interest Group will advocate for the needs of educators.
Topic and purpose (goal) of this WG:
To raise awareness about MIDI in education at schools (secondary, college and university, and pro schools), and for manufacturer and reseller staff members.
SAE Mexico, The NAMM MIDI Fund and The MIDI Association
SAE Mexico has been selected to begin work on The MIDI Association’s MIDI In Music Education curriculum by the NAMM Foundation.
SAE Mexico will provide the curriculum materials in both English and Spanish and have a unique relationship with Coursera, the massive open online course provider so the curriculum and certification will be available at no charge.
All of the materials created for The MIDI In Music Education curriculum will also be provided under a Creative Common license.
This means anyone is free to take the materials, modify and adapt them for whatever purpose that is needed.
Universities can include portions in their already existing materials without any concerns about copyrights or licenses.
MIDI.Org Articles on MIDI In Music Education
MIDI and Music Education: Expanding Access and Engagement Worldwide
Date: Youtube Premier On Saturday May 31, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYmqj9hrM5I Event: MIDI In Music Education Working Group Presentation and Webinar The MIDI Association will host an education-focused webinar, bringing together music educators, industry leaders, and students to discuss new initiatives and expand engagement with MIDI in education globally. Featured Participants Dr. Lee Whitmore – Focusrite Group,…
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Jordan Rudess and MIT’s jam_bot: A New Era of Human-AI Musical Collaboration
As We May Think
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Mostafa ‘Neo’ Mohsenvand
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MIDI In Music Education and SAE Mexico
SAE Mexico has been selected to begin work on The MIDI Association’s MIDI In Music Education curriculum by the NAMM Foundation. They will provide the curriculum materials in both English and Spanish and have a unique relationship with Coursera, the massive open online course provider. All of the materials created for The MIDI In Music…
The MIDI Association NAMM 2025
The MIDI Association and MIDI Showcase at NAMM 2025 continued to grow in both size and attendance at events. Over 30 companies from The MIDI Association had booths at NAMM and most of them were centered around the MIDI Showcase. We were running multiple events every day on our stage with the help of Professor…
MIDI Association Presentations on the Music China 2024 X Stage
Music China and the Chinese Musical Instrument Association (CMIA) have really stepped up their support for MIDI and digital music making and right next to The MIDI Association booth was the X Stage where we did a number of presentations over the course of 4 days. Brian Hardgroove and Sennheiser Immersive Audio Presentation Because of…
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AES 2024
The MIDI Association will be participating in the Audio Engineering Society 2024 which happens October 8-10 at the Jacob Javits Center In New York City. While a large group of MIDI Association members will be on planes headed to Shanghai for Music China, another group of MIDI Association members will head to the Big Apple…
The MIDI In Music Education Initiative Moves Forward
The MIDI Association Selects SAE Mexico to create a MIDI Curriculum Starting in 2021, Athan Billias (MIDI Association President), Denis Labrecque (former MIDI Association Exec Board member) , and Lee Whitmore (MIDI Association Board Member and Treasurer) initiated biweekly meetings of the MIDI Association MIDI in Music Education (MIME) Special Interest Group. The group includes various…
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The MIDI in Music Education Special Interest Group
The MIDI in Music Education (MIME) Special Interest Group has defined a MIDI Curriculum and a Certification Program Starting in 2021, Athan Billias (MIDI Association President), Denis Labrecque (former MIDI Association Exec Board member) , and Lee Whitmore (MIDI Association Board Member and Treasurer) initiated biweekly meetings of the MIDI Association MIDI in Music Education…
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MIDI In Music Education Webinar- Saturday, May 13, 2023
Hosted by MIDI In Music Education Working Group Chair, Lee Whitmore, VP of Education for Focusrite, the webinar featured virtual tours of several MIDI In Music Education institutions including Belmont University, Columbia University, Full Sail University and Riverside City College. The MIDI In Music Education Special Interest Group (SIG) formed in 2014 is a community…
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MIDI – The Music Education Tool K-12 Can’t Live Without: New Benchmarks for Chromebooks
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is the technical standard for connecting electronic musical instruments and computers to record, edit, and playback music.Created in 1983 and 40 years later, it is still essential in music education because playing any keyboard note can generate: Notation Pitch Velocity Panning Vibrato Clock Signals Key Pressure … and much more,…
More Playful Products with MIDI at NAMM 2022
Join MIDI Association President Athan Billias, artiphon’s Emma Supica and Oddball’s Pasquale Totaro for a discussion of playful (and round) products that use MIDI from the June 2022 NAMM show Follow the bouncing ball as it sends out MIDI messages and learn how music teachers in Anaheim are getting kids to express their emotions with MIDI.
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Playful Products with MIDI at NAMM 2022
Join MIDI Association President Athan Billias, Big Ear Games Aviv Ben-Yahuda , Playtronics’ Sacha Pas and Playtime Engineering’s Troy Sheets for a discussion of playful products that use MIDI from the June 2022 NAMM show. Sorry, it took awhile to get this interview up. But it was an entertaining conversation. Just remembering how great it was…
The NAMM Foundation and the MIDI Association announce the Launch of The MIDI Fund
Los Angeles, CA – June 2, 2022 The NAMM Foundation and the MIDI Association are pleased to announce the MIDI Fund, a new donor-advised fund in The NAMM Foundation. The MIDI Fund will support projects and programs that advance engagement in music-making and the varied and unique options to make, create and explore music made…
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MIDI In Music Education Webinar -Saturday, May 21
Join the inaugural webinar of the MIDI Association’s MIDI in Music Education (MiME) working group. To celebrate “May is MIDI Month,” we welcome Craig Anderton – who’s played Carnegie Hall, written 45 books on music technology, and lectured around the world for over four decades.His talk on “Music, MIDI, and the Art of Inspired Instruction”…
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A MIDI Controller has a MIDI Controller that sends MIDI Controllers
MIDI Controllers (Products, Physical Controls, and Messages) Unfortunately the word controller is overburdened in the MIDI lexicon and probably the most overused word in the world of MIDI. It can refer to three different things- products, physical controls and messages. MIDI Controller=Product People can say MIDI Controller and they mean a product like a IK MultiMedia iRig Keys…
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Mixing with Virtual Instruments: The Basics
DAW software, like Ableton Live, Logic, Pro Tools, Studio One, etc. isn’t just about audio. Virtual instruments that are driven by MIDI data produce sounds in real time, in sync with the rest of your tracks. It’s as if you had a keyboard player in your studio who played along with your tracks, and could…
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Bandlab Breaks the Music Education MIDI Sound Barrier
Once upon a time, school students had to know how to play an instrument to make music or know enough theory to compose a song. We all gathered in the music room or auditorium of our brick-and mortar high schools to learn music and perform it.The music education world has seen many changes since then;…
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Synthesis Fundamentals from the Bob Moog Foundation, Ableton’s Learning Synths, and Chrome Music Lab
The Bob Moog Foundation and the MIDI Association The Bob Moog Foundation and the MIDI Association have had a close working relationship for many years. When we talked to Michelle Moog-Koussa, she graciously agreed to provide some materials on synthesizers for the May Is MIDI Month 2020 promotion. The series of posters in this article are available for purchase here with the proceeds going to the…
Melodics- Using MIDI to Learn Music
Melodics is modern learning for modern instruments Melodics is modern learning for modern instruments, supporting MIDI Keyboards, Pad Controllers, and electronic drum kits. It’s structured learning for solid progress. Melodics takes the “but where do I start?” out of learning music. Start with a genre you love, or a technique you want to master. Whatever your skill…
Audio Assemble-Video Tutorials, Product Reviews, & Pro Tools
There are lots of websites that offer information on DAWs and music production. Audio Assemble takes a unique approach by offering articles, videos, reviews, interviews and information on schools that offer degrees in music and music production. The database they have put together about music schools is impressive and they also have a listing for the top…
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