freeform goodness

It has become increasingly obvious that the people in charge of safeguarding what is perhaps mankind’s most basic, enduring artform are utterly unsuited to the job. The humor’s a bit heavy handed, but these days the parodies can barely keep up with the reality. When even Michael Jackson starts to make sense, you know things have gone loony.

“Freed from plastic, music forms its own scale.”

Glenn McDonald nails it again:

The virtualization of music opens the way for the resurgence of single songs, obviously, but this is only the most straightforward commercial implication of deposing the album as a format of necessity. If you can sell three minutes, instead of forty, then you call probably sell twenty-five minutes, too. This is an artistic opportunity, not just a logistical convenience, as the EP is an underexploited medium with its own formal characteristics.

:: Dave Walker 23:50 (EST/EDT) [+]

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