Daniel Lopatin , aka Oneohtrix Point Never.eBook ISBN 9781910924778. Do you like electronic music and Marxism.You re in luck great for gearheads and anyone who resents the rise of black-boxed control mechanisms.Praise for Mad Skills .Part rigorous history, part insightful commentary, and part memoir, Mad Skills tells the story behind MIDI, through the twentieth century s kaleidoscopic lens. Blending technical knowledge, business history, and cultural polemic, Mad Skills is a sharp study of a human invention that stamped its post-human character over an entire era of pop. Simon Reynolds , author of Retromania and Energy Flash A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture. Benjamin Tausig , Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Stony Brook University. Through deep dives into archives, original interviews, and an aptitude for the Marxian archaeology of electronics, Diduck opens the black box of MIDI for all to see and hear.Publication date 15th March, 2018. a deep, clear read on the historical and social development of machine music; wisdom about MIDI finally.Guiding us across one hundred years of musical instruments, and the music made with them, it recounts the technical and creative innovations that led to the making of the most vital, long-standing, ubiquitous, and yet invisible music technology of our time.Midi control music to the rave.Paperback ISBN 9781910924761.