MIDISharingAdventure

17-1-2026 Research moment

Looking for interesting ways to share MIDI files, I stumbled on this page intended to download high quality MIDI files for learning how to play piano. https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesia/comments/qdkxou/creating_a_website_for_sharing_midi_files/

midishare

midishow looks kinda scary with all it's ads

Discussions

15-01-2026

On Steve's Party we sat downd at the synth and started just bleeping a blooping around. There are many ways to go but its nice that we share the same interest in generating sound waves and do somthing with them.

19-01-2026

Daan found a website where people can share MIDI files and scores. It is quite hard to submit your own sound. He points out that whatever we do it is important to store and share the sound we creating.

Some quesgtions that came up: How do we store and share the sounds we created?

Valentin proposes a way to start a prototype by thinking about each letter of the alphabet as a a sound, which is not a big think if we think about spoken lanuage (we assign specific letters to each sound to create the alphabet). My proposal is about reversing the evolution of orality to litercay - so literacy to orality - by assigning a specific sound to each letter. Just a quick idea is to find an instrument with each letter of the alphabet -> take a note e.g. C and play that note on each instrument (or synthetize them) -> assign sounds to letters -> and voila: recreated the vocal/orail repertoir of sounds our alphabet. This prototype can serve as a further exploration into encryption. (Save Bootleg Library (SBL))

Valentin also proposes a way to think about files as structured datapoints.

The most amazing website with all the instruments with pictures in alphabetic order :DDD

Alphorn Banjo Cello Djembe Ektara Flute Ghatam Imzad Jews' Harp Kalimba Langeleik Mandolin Ney Ocarina Panpipe Qairaq Rubboard Sitar Tuba Ud Vuvuzela Waterphone Xylophone Yamatogoto Zurna

20-01-2026

Valentin shares the observation of usb stick left in CDJs by djs, as a way to spread files among venues, radios etc. physically.

Prototype

Today we learned how to map signals from the synth keys and nobs plus the samplers button in TouchDesigner. We also learned to sample music from different devices (synth, computer).

This way we could make a first prototype for assigning synthetic sounds to letters.

Mapping the MIDI keyboard's keys

MIDI keyboard input -> Select individual keys -> re-range their value to 0/1 -> export value to the assigned letter's aplha value -> perform :D

I have found this xPub graduation project as a nice reference for what a modular system could be:
Modular Matter by Jian Haake [ohjian]