David Kusek: From Disco to File Sharing - It's All About the Music

David Kusek is a co-developer of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) standard that opened up electronic music to literally millions of people.

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David Kusek

David Kusek is a musician who has been inventing the future of music for the past twenty-five years. At the age of nineteen, he co-invented electronic drums at Synare, which helped ignite the disco era. He is also a co-developer of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) standard that opened up electronic music to literally millions of people. Today, Kusek is vice president of Berklee Media. 

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