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Much of this can be reductive, dumbing down to the lowest common denominator.However, it is the execution and intent that requires attention, not the strategy. Write and produce for the medium: We are already locked into a process of music being designed for Spotify success, through so-called Spotify Core and with the industrialisation of song writing seeing songs stitching together the best hooks from multiple songwriters.All three straightjackets can be discarded. We have 14 track albums because CDs were designed to fit Beethoven’s 9 thSymphony we have static recordings to serve legacy distribution models we have three minute songs to fit radio schedules. Now, with physical media accounting for an ever-smaller share of music consumption, there is no need to adhere to its constraints. Over time, as recording techniques and technology improved, the recorded song developed into its own art form, with multitrack recording, effects, synthesis and programming enabling the creation of sounds that could never be truly replicated live. Songs became fixed, static and permanent because that was the only way we could squeeze music into little discs – mummified echoes of live performances. Nevertheless, this is a historical anomaly – a legacy of physical media.
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Conditioned by the recorded era, it is hard for us to conceptualise a time when music only existed in the moment and was never heard exactly the same way twice. When Edison invented the phonograph, a denigrator called it a machine ‘that brings dead sounds back to life’. Here is a vision for what the future of music could be. It is time for a change in how we think about music, right from the creation process through to what a song actually sounds like. Now, in the internet era, formats are becoming a thing of the past – and yet the way in which music is made and distributed still conforms to the old physical world. The constraints that formats set have, in turn, become the creative frameworks within which music has operated. Formats have shaped and dictated the evolution of recorded music.