An old iteration of my rig, "the terminal". Some aspects have changed while others haven't. Whenever I make a change I have to "re-synth" the old songs; they never sound the same but I think that's kind of cool.

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 mys...