SXSW is known for its excess. So many bands, so many people, so much drinking, such long hours… And if there is a future for the music business, it is somewhere floating around the SXSW Music Festival. With the overbooked schedules and harried journalists and photogs trying to cover as many bases as possible to the wannabe hipsters and their trite costumes, could there be any beauty in minimalism and structure? Twitter is all about limitations, but a short tweet can capture the highs and lows of a packed festival and say more than those 140 characters.

THE SXSW FUNDAMENTALS AS TOLD THROUGH TWITTER: