Dawn of Midi is an American acoustic ensemble from Brooklyn, New York, composed of bassist Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani, and drummer Qasim Naqvi. Formed in Los Angeles in 2007, the band moved to Brooklyn in 2011. They released their first album, First, in 2010. In 2013, Dawn of Midi released their second album, Dysnomia, which was written by Belyamani and Israni. The group gained significant attention when the podcast Radiolab featured them in a short entitled "Dawn of Midi" in 2013, which included an interview with Israni. This segment was later reused as the opening of the 2016 full-length Radiolab episode Man vs. Machine. In 2016, Dawn of Midi opened for two sold-out concerts by Radiohead at New York's Madison Square Garden as part of their A Moon Shaped Pool tour.
