Songs don’t take up any physical space, but musicians and their producers have to make a lot of decisions about scale, like the number of instruments used or even the size of the studio. Los Angeles-based musician Mark Stewart — a.k.a. Stew — and his writing partner Heidi Rodewald talked to Jocelyn Gonzales about the choices they face, simple and complex.
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