THE DIGITIZATION OF MUSIC IN THE TERM OF MIDI CONCEPT

Mihalis Kuyucu
Associate Prof., İstanbul Aydın University, TURKEY michaelkuyucu@gmail.com

Abstract

The concept of “waves” is a common shorthand for major and significant events or developments. Some scientists, for example, worry about the Sixth Wave of Extinctions (Informnauka (Informscience) Agency, 2004). Computer experts think in terms of the Fifth Wave of Computing (Segars, 2019). More generally, waves of technology, and especially electronics, come too rapidly to enumerate (Wallace, 2019). The thesis to be investigated in this paper is that in music, the advent of MIDI marks a legitimate sixth wave of music. In the first part of the paper the history of music will be explored in the sight of six waves. The papers main aim is to clarify the function of MIDI (Musical Digital Interface) in the development of music technology. For this the concept of MIDI term will be researched in the perspective of history and technical sight. The paper will conclude how music was affected from MIDI and what it can bring to the future of music.

Keywords: Music, MIDI, Technology, Music History, Digitization, Digital Music