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This is 99% invisible I'm Roman Mars.

Gerta said that architecture is frozen music.

That's lovely.

Of course that was before audio recording so now for the most part music is frozen music. It's only very recently in the history of music that we've been able to freeze music into an object.

And in my life the form of this object mattered a lot. I once bought vinyl

albums and cassette tapes and there were two first songs per album,

Side A and side B.

The energy of a first song

made it stand apart from the other songs,

at least in my head it did.

Then the CD came along and eliminated Side B and there was only one first song, and the actual

number of the track that you could see prominently displayed on the CD player UI.

That became my index for sorting songs.

Then MP3's jumbled my sense of track order and albums began to feel more like a loose grouping of individual pieces rather than a conceptual

whole.

I could do this all day and you're welcome to try men.

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