MADPAN: An Improved Musical Digital Protocol — Part 1

For years, I’ve been working towards ideas for improving the digital landscape for musicians and composers. From notions I dreamed up more than two decade ago, some of these ideas are now in the realm of being technically possible given the ever-increasing power of affordable computers. It’s time we expanded on the promise of MIDI, and these introductory thoughts are meant to open the conversation to invite more about the specifics, including software topologies and protocols to achieve them.

I present MADPAN, short for Musical Abstraction Distributed Program Analytic Network.

This article is presented from a PDF file as JPEG images, as an experimental technique for easier distribution.