“All sounds made by guitar, bass, drums and vocals”
– Rage Against the Machine, Liner notes to every RATM album
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“Creativity itself requires limits, for the creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.”
Rollo May, The Courage to Create
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Having only four ways to produce sound is a constraint that leads to invention.
If you have unlimited options for doing something then you might be tempted to take them.
If you have unlimited time then maybe you take it to decide what to do.
Perhaps you never decide.
But if you have a limited space in which to create then you can get on with it.
No day dreaming or wishful thinking.
I do this here, now, with what I’ve got.
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