mehmet ali simayli
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for piano four hands and fixed media electronics
performed by Alexandre Tavares and Dimitry Batalov
recorded at Jazzcampus Basel
composed, recorded, produced by Mehmet Ali Simayli
BLANK MIDI is a piece composed with the imaginary world of black midi music, which contains a
large number of MIDI data in musical composition and found a place in 2000s internet culture and
memeification. Fantasizing the instrument piano as an object of hyperification of its potential led
the piece BLANK MIDI to expand into a transcription process: from a generative and
algorithmically composed MIDI piano piece into an acoustic translation on the acoustic piano.
The hybrid result becomes a comparison of two worlds—yet also a synthesis—of the instrumental
fantasia and the acoustic phenomena of hearing an instrument as a source. Here, with the
speakers placed inside the piano, the piano becomes a hyper-object, playing with the pre-
determined image and roles of objects in our daily life, such as the aristocratic piano.