[deluxeroyale]

A childhood friend used to compose “Frank Zappa”-like music using some obscure MIDI composing software on windows. I used to watch him randomly spread out thousands of notes on the note sheet, press play and it would just sound bizarre and random, I didn’t get it. I was 13 and the year was 1999.

[davidthewatson]

Surely you’re referring to the black page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Page I was surprised the Wikipedia page didn’t link to it but perhaps Zappa wasn’t big in Japan. It is a historically significant work for its “statistical density” to quote Zappa speaking about the piece.

[Sniffnoy]

The page does link to it?

[davidthewatson]

What I see is that the black midi page links to Zappa not to Zappa’s work titled the black page. I’m not sure of the relationship between Zappa and nancarrow?

[Sniffnoy]

It's at the end of the first paragraph of the "Origins and early history" section.