Ryan Alexander Diduck’s Mad Skills: MIDI and Music Technology in the 20th Century is a cultural history of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, the technological standard connecting electronic instruments and computers. Diduck traces the MIDI’s evolution as part of a larger narrative of musical control, rooted as much in the nascent global electronics industry of the 1980s as the establishment of the 88-key piano in the mid-19th century. Includes Q&A with Tamar Shlaim from Repeater Books.