Creativity & Constraint in Music: A Dawless Perspective - Part 3

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Creativity & Constraint in Music: A Dawless Perspective - Part 3
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Hello friends. Welcome back for part 3 of A Dawless Perspective, a series in which we're exploring a different way to make electronic music.

Today we're going to get a bit philosophical; after all what is art without a little philosophy.

This philosophy has to do with how constraints (aka limitations) affect our musical output. There are examples of these constraints all throughout history where a musician's environment directly affected their music, something we don't really have to think about in our world of DAW-based production. What I think is extra interesting is that as dawless musicians we're engineering our own systems of constraints; our self-created sonic infrastructure is an act of art just as much as the notes we play.

I realize I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, we're not going to get too into dawless sonic infrastructure today, that's coming in part 4. Today our discussion is going to be much more high-level than that, about all music as a whole, not any particular ...

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